Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package list for CLI-only admin/service install
On my boxes I install a small Debian stable on its own partition for service and rescue purposes, an alternative to the many live-CD distros. I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little more), basic clients for communicating (http, irc, etc etc) many drivers, but no X. I have also tried to lift the package list from existing live-cd distros, but it did not work out - and would have contained distro- specific packages anyway, which is something I'd rather avoid. Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? TIA for all the wisdom I will receive! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
SpamHog wrote: Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? I guess it really depends on your environment, we have this on every host: # more or less standard packages # this is the tasksel standard selection ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant # just in case :) less bzip2 # scripting usage python vim # my boss likes it I don't mc # monitoring - very nice zabbix-agent # killall is nice psmisc # networking screen ethtool iproute # we run on xfs xfsprogs xfsdump # misc stuff acl curl subversion # SSH Stuff openssh-client openssh-server i'm also open to suggestions - puppet is next on the list to be added as it can manage all those things centrally hth martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours You are not free to read this message, by doing so, you have violated my licence and are required to urinate publicly. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm also open to suggestions Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be to prepare ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue tools I want?. After a standard net-install one would just do a wget and a dpkg. As an alternative, debfoster + a long install list. I could start from the app list of a live cd. Doesn't look too hard. Once I give it a try I'll post on whether I overrated the task.
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:45:11AM -0800, SpamHog wrote: I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little more), basic clients for communicating (http, irc, etc etc) many drivers, but no X. Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? When I install, I do a minimal install (don't select any tasks, not even standard), then set up aptitude. For my spare box (used both for accessing the main box, but also as a reference box in case the main box goes down), I install a fair bit. I generally include X in case there are any pdf docs I need or if I need a graphical browser. For that purpose, I include links2. Since I may want to print out more than plain-text, I include apsfilter and gs-gpl in addition to lpr. I include the docs for most things. I didn't include the tar doc package since mc will handle it natively. I don't create a metapackage. It doesn't take me long to go down my usual list and select what I need. I hope this helps. Doug. Here's the list but I'll remove the X stuff from it. FYI, the list is created with # aptitude search '~i!~M' (installed not automatically) i adduser - Add and remove users and groups i anacron - cron-like program that doesn't go by time i apsfilter - Magic print filter with automatic file typ i apt-doc - Documentation for APT i apt-howto-en- example-based guide to APT (English) i apt-utils - APT utility programs i aptitude- terminal-based apt frontend i aptitude-doc-en - English manual for aptitude, a terminal-ba i bash- The GNU Bourne Again SHell i bwm-ng - small and simple console-based bandwidth m i cron- management of regular background processin i debconf-english - small footprint English-only debconf i debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents i debian-reference-en - Debian system administration guide, Englis i dnsmasq - A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP server i doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in HTML format i doc-linux-nonfree-html - Linux HOWTOs in HTML format (non-free) i dosfstools - Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT f i ed - The classic unix line editor i exim4 - metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installa i fdutils - Linux floppy utilities i file- Determines file type using magic numbers i grub- GRand Unified Bootloader i grub-doc- Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader i gs-gpl - The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter i gsfonts-x11 - Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11 i hwb - The Hardware Book i icewm - wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window man i iptables- administration tools for packet filtering i less- Pager program similar to more i libc6-i686 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 opti i libpaper-utils - Library for handling paper characteristics i links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and t i linux-image-686 - Linux kernel image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PII i logrotate - Log rotation utility i lpr - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system i lrzsz - Tools for zmodem/xmodem/ymodem file transf i lynx- Text-mode WWW Browser i mailx - A simple mail user agent i makepasswd - Generate and encrypt passwords i man-db - The on-line manual pager i manpages- Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux syste i mc - midnight commander - a powerful file manag i menu- generates programs menu for all menu-aware i mime-support- MIME files 'mime.types' 'mailcap', and s i minicom
Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
i'm also open to suggestions Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be to prepare ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue tools I want?. After a standard net-install one would just do a wget and a dpkg. As an alternative, debfoster + a long install list. I could start from the app list of a live cd. Doesn't look too hard. Once I give it a try I'll post on whether I overrated the task. there is a terminal metapackage that i worked on a while back, may need some tweeking still (kind of left it orphaned for the time being) http://www.cli-apps.org/content/show.php/terminalphile?content=70610 let me know if it helps jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
