[SGVLUG] The Day After an Install (Post Install To Do's - Some Meeting Topics)

[John Jefferson Lowry IV]

I reccomend adding "Installing & Configuring SSH" to that list as well. I
use ssh on my own home network all the time for sharing files. May sharing
files and printers with Windows as well?

On 5/17/07, Greg Stark <gstark at electrorent.com> wrote:
>
> I feel BJ has made a valid point.  So here is a quick pass at "The Day
> After
> an Install".  I would like to here what are some of the first things you
> do
> to your box (it's the little things that count.)  Or if your migrating by
> doing a fresh install.  How do you get your "stuff" over into the new OS
> (How did you skin that cat!)
>
> Greg
>
> Meeting Topics
> - Post Install Setting Up Things
>
>    User Desktop Linux
>     - Setup a Modem to ISP
>     - Getting your Wireless to work (for the newbie)
>     - Backup your Linux (Demos a Full backup and Restore)
>     - Config auto system updates (YUM or whatever...What are
>        repositories, and who can you trust)
>     - Config your Firewall
>     - Install PGP & x509 certificates (Gen a PGP key, send
>        a signed email, sign a file)
>     - Getting your Audio to work
>     - Burning A CD
>     - Config ....
>
>    Server Linux
>     - Config DNS
>     - Config Apache (Config a vhost, Create and install a
>        SSL certificate)
>     - Config a Mail service (SendMail or ProcMail), IMAP,...
>     - SELinux
>     - Config a Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
>     - Config LDAP (Config Load & Use)
>     - ...
>
>
>
>


-- 
John Lowry
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