[mdlug] Ubuntu Server administration

[Michael]

We only use Ubuntu servers here at work (8.04 LTS) and I personally manage a
few servers that all run 9.04.
Aptitude and more user-friendly apt-get are the package managers and will be
the reason you switch from SuSe if you get the hang of them. The Debian
underpinnings are rock solid and I can't tell you the last time I had a
dependancy issue. Even better, the package management let's me create my own
packages easily and use those, all with the apt-get bindings, to keep my own
stuff up to date. I never need to install anything from source again on a
production machine.

Here is the list of packages. You can also add other sources by editing
/etc/apt/sources.list

Personally I never thought Webmin was secure enough for my purposes and am
comfortable with sshing into the command line, but I know you can install it
from there. I bet there is a plugin out there that would also have the
aptitude parts in it.

Synaptic Package Manager is the GUI version (apt-get install synaptic). I
suspect you could run that through X11 if you really wanted to.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

Let me know if there are any specific questions you have. Ubuntu/Debian has
been really good to me over the last 3 years.

Michael

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:

> I gave Ubuntu 9.04 Server a go a little time ago. I immediately ran into
> issues and dropped it like a rock and went back to OpenSuSe.
>
> I prefer to get things up and running quickly and Ubuntu Server wasn't
> playing nice with regards to setting up two different Ethernet cards with
> differing roles. The machine was being setup as a firewall between a known
> to be dangerous network and a network that needed to be protected. There
> was
> no utility apparent for telling the system that Card A was to be Eth0 and
> Card B was to be Eth1.
>
> I am unfamiliar with Ubuntu having anything as robust and capable as YaST2.
>
> Regards,
> Robert Adkins
> IT Manager/Buyer
> Impel Industries, Inc.
> Phone: 586-254-5800
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org
> > [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Michael ORourke
> > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:08 PM
> > To: MDLUG's main mailing list
> > Subject: [mdlug] Ubuntu Server administration
> >
> > Lug nuts,
> >
> > I built an Ubuntu Server (9.04) the other day for a client
> > and was wondering if it had an administrative utility such as
> > SuSE's YAST?  I did some poking around in the docs, but
> > didn't find anything.  I did all the server configuration
> > from the command line, which is not a big deal.  But since I
> > won't be the only person responsible for maintaining the
> > server, I installed Webmin.  Since I setup the server to be
> > deployed without a console (KVM may be added in the future),
> > Webmin made the most sense.
> >
> > -Mike
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