[mdlug] Ubuntu Server administration

[Michael ORourke]

Yep, I found aptitude when I was poking around in the docs.  Sounds like a 
pretty cool package management tool.  Thanks for the info.  However, I 
really like the flexibility that YAST offers from both a GUI and command 
line perspective.  It's really handy when you do system administration on 
SuSE boxes and you know what you want to do, but might have forgotten the 
syntax or what-not, so you pull up YAST and navigate through the menu items 
till you find what you want to do.  IMHO it is really the 'Swiss Army Knife' 
of system administration tools.

-Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael" <newmaniese at gmail.com>
To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Ubuntu Server administration


> 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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