1. Warren Myers BGLUG 4 Aug 2014

2.  Digital Ocean Sign in/up (http://bit.ly/1ukcuUK) Create Droplet (VM)  VirtualBox Create new VM Mount OS ISO Boot and install

3.  Turn off unnecessary services chkconfig --list | grep ‘:on’ chkconfig off  Install any updated packages yum -y upgrade  Basic sanity on ssh Create a new user Give user sudo privileges  visudo  Enable wheel group  Add user to wheel Disallow password authentication for root

4.  Add swap (if you didn’t during install) Do you “need” swap?  Yes!  No!  Maybe! Partition or swapfile?  As root  dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=8096 count=524288  mkswap /swapfile  swapon /swapfile  Add to /etc/fstab  /swapfileswapswapdefaults0 0

5.  User management  Configure postfix (or exim or …)  Install apps/services you want/need Apache/Nginx PHP ftp  ftp access should be highly limited  Install helpful utilities yum -y install screen emacs

6.  Pros Kernel now on 3.x series Better virtualization support Lots of updated packages  Cons chkconfig doesn’t manage most services Seemingly-small changes bigger than in previous version upgrades

7.  Ubuntu / Debian / Mint Configs similar Uses update-rc.d instead of chkconfig Mint isn’t a server distro!  Slackware Many configs similar No standard tool like chkconfig  SuSE Configs similar-ish … but more “European” Also uses chkconfig  Everything else (Arch, *BSD, etc)