How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by richardwhiuk on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:01AM (#5318809)

Indeed dist-upgrade should be used - it isn't just kernel updates either.

The server should also be rebooted. Applying kernel updates makes no good if you never apply them!

screen -x is equivalent to screen -xR afaict:)

I'd also add @reboot screen to crontab, which will recreate a session on startup - in my bashrc I have :

if [ "a$STY" == "a" ]; then screen -x fi

Other useful things include actually setting up backups (duplicity is a useful first step here), installing munin/nagios to monitor the new box.

Realistically if you are doing this more than once per blue moon, then you should be using something like puppet to do this automagically.

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by beagle3 on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:03PM (#5321309)

> screen -x is equivalent to screen -xR afaict:)

"screen -x" requires a session to already exist, whereas "screen -xR" will join one if it already exists, but will create one if it does not. At least it does in v4.00 which I use. If you have a "screen" call in your @reboot, you already have a session, so they will work the same.

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