Reply to: Which Linux for Microserver?

[The Spartan]

£30 cashback supposedly available so if you want one and you are quick it will cost £99.99

A definite bargain I love my HP Microserver, it's worth it's weight in gold

[eek]

£30 cashback supposedly available so if you want one and you are quick it will cost £99.99

[stek]

Vim rather than vi, but Vimium, the hacker's browser

Rules of Unix...

Never change root's shell....

Never rely on anything that's not there in single user (i.e. dynamically linked) or from CD/DVD boot (same applies)...

[Sysman]

set -o vi

and than the command line works like vi.

Oh, and learn vi.

:wq!

Vim rather than vi, but Vimium, the hacker's browser

Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor.

[Contreras]

Oh yes, command line in vi mode.

Editor wars ...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/techn...ml#post1657627

[stek]

Bash is for pouffs! all that fancy backspacing and arrows working....

Korn shell is for real men, login then;

stty erase ^?

set -o vi

and than the command line works like vi.

Oh, and learn vi.

:wq!

[Contreras]

I wouldn't bother with Webadmin if the intention is to get down to the nitty gritty and learn stuff. But then personally I wouldn't bother with Webadmin at all, so there is some bias there.

Presumably you have some version of Windows installed as main desktop/laptop system. In that case PuTTY will get you SSH access to the Linux box. So now you can login to get a command line window.

Google for a command line cheat sheet. It's worth becoming familiar with Bash's key binding, living with the Bash command line is a whole different experience to DOS/Windows once you know the various shortcuts.

Next you need a way to edit config files. 'nano' should be installed by default and is simple enough to get any fool into and out of trouble. There are other editors that will run in a console of course.

If you want to get all pointy clicky and wysiwyg, then yes an X Server running locally may be required, which could be an adventure in itself. Alternatively use a Windows editor and then SCP or FTP for file transfer to/from the Linux box. Some editors have this built in or you can use WinSCP separately.

[Platypus]

All IIRC and 4.2 is well old!

AIX 4.2 was the prevailing version last time I programmed and sysadmin'ed in anger on AIX.

I guess that makes me well old too

[Scruff]

Put ESXi version on and you can run all the rest simultaneously .👅

[Sysman]

I don't use a GUI either so SSL to a terminal and Webmin for easy admin. I prefer CentOS or Scientific Linux as a server distro.

Scientific Linux here. I do have a GUI on it because that gives me a bit more flexibility.

Check this out for an easy setup;

The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.5 x86_64 (Apache2, MySQL, PHP, PureFTPD, Postfix, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

You can ignore the ispconfig part if you like but the rest will have you running a LAMP stack in no time.

When I was starting out on this stuff I found the Perfect Server articles excellent.

[stek]

In AIX 4.2 the green text screen version was called smit. That's now smitty with smit being the new GUI version then.

smit would always launch X smit if X was setup and graphics available, and the character smit if none was there. If X server was detected but display wrong etc it would just hang waiting for the display.

smitty launches only tty smit.

All IIRC and 4.2 is well old!

[Platypus]

smitty remember, smit-tty; smit is the X version...

In AIX 4.2 the green text screen version was called smit. That's now smitty with smit being the new GUI version then.

[smatty]

I use Ubuntu LTS on mine, new version has all the openstack stuff included.

Can probably put Xorg on if you wanted but I wouldn't bother, SSH for everything. Openstack has a web interface for configuration.


It's spelt smatty and if you call me a CUI again we shall have words.

[stek]

ha ha ha, good old character-based smit for you then? or just enter the commands directly and bypass smit?

Bypass it and no pressing F6 for the command!

In fact we counted the keystrokes for adding a persistent static route by both methods and sadly smitty won 52-54....

smitty remember, smit-tty; smit is the X version...

[Platypus]

GUIs are for girls. I won't even use smitty on AIX (actually a CUI) or the HMC web interface cos I'm a bloody bloke!

ha ha ha, good old character-based smit for you then? or just enter the commands directly and bypass smit?