starting work as a sysadmin
I just started my own hosting business, and after buying a server [-dedicated :)], I began configuring my environment.
The hosting company provided me with a 3.1rc3 debian 64 bit version – minimal install – on an AMD dual core 64 bit with 2GB of RAM.
That was BIG, for I was coming from a VPS 200MHz CPU, 200 MB RAM.
So I started to prepare the install phase of all servers I needed.
here is my list:
bind – for nameserver
cyrus-sasl
postfix
postgrey
dovecot
apache-httpd
php
eaccelerator
lighttpd
mysql
java
jetty
openssl
vsftpd
All sources, all compiled as I like – maybe i will tell the arguments passed to the ./configure command line in another post.
Then was the environment.
.bash_history 10000 lines -> HISTSIZE=10000
HISTIGNORE=’\&:fg:bg:ls:pwd:cd ..:cd ~:ls -al:cd:ps -A:mc:ls -l:%1:%2:top:exit:halt*’ , this is in order to save only the important lines
Ctrl-R then would come handy to search for those precious lines.
VISUAL=/usr/bin/vim needed for crontab, and other tools that need an external editor
vim is my editor. VIM rules.