System Configuration

Installation & Configuration

Praxis (or Gentoo) is simple enough to install, simply extract the proper system image tarball (aka: Stage3 or Stage4) to the mounted root target, a few settings and done.

System installation base, extlinux bootloader, fstab, kernel modules, date & timezone, and other system information, upgrading.

Core System Packages

clamav, collectd, fcron, iptables, logrotate, nut OpenSSH, OpenSSL, net-snmp, ssmtp, syslog-ng.

System Maintenance

Instructions for maintaining the base system, package managers, network & system configurations.

Server Configuration

Infrastruture Services

This list covers basic network infrastructure systems including communications and file-sharing.

CUPS Server, CUPS+AirPrint, DHCP, DNS, GlusterFS, KVM, (windows p2v), LDAP, NTP, Samba (trust relationship).

Inter-Networking Services

Apache, Apache Authentication, Apache Authentication via SSL, Lighttpd, AWStats, Postfix (w/Cyrus SASL, Relay Host, Anti-Spam, multiple-instances, null-mail client), Dovecot, FreeSWITCH, Hylafax (troubleshooting), OpenVPN, Pure-FTP, Varnish Cache

Application Servers

couchdb (compaction), chiliproject, drupal (performance), eJabberd/XMPP, Evergreen ILS (and OpenSRF), Redmine (plugins), Subversion, Trac, NgIRCd, Unreal IRC, PostgreSQL ( performance, autovacuum stats-io, replication), MySQL

Specialty Applications

Some packages just don't fit in

Arachni, OpenVAS.

Desktop Applications and Configurations

xfce, chromium-os.

Appendix

Use Gentoo Live CD/USB or Ubuntu Live CD/USB , Binhost, Catalyst, etc

This section is a series of documents about using Free and Open Source (FOSS) in the small business enterprise. Edoceo specializes in introducing companies to Open Source and supporting the companies that are already using these technologies. The articles are written with skilled computer professionals (>=8yrs) and moderately skilled Linux users in mind (~3-5yrs).

All of this documentation is based on experiences with the Debian, Gentoo or Ubuntu/Kubuntu GNU/Linux distributions. These alternative to expensive distributions, like RedHat or Novell, will truly deliver the lower TCO promises made by Open Source. The information can be applied to any Linux distribution with slight changes to paths and such. For one the apt-get or emerge commands may not available so some other package manager must be used or manual installs must be performed. Those topics are not covered here.