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Editor: SamatJain
Comment: Add rsync
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Editor: SamatJain
Comment: Allow running X11 apps remotely
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# Disable installation of recommended packages (TODO: this is interactive; how to pass "yes"?)
echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90recommends
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# Disable installation of recommended packages
echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90recommends

# Enable log compression with date postfix'd extension
# Enable log compression with date suffixed extension
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bash-completion \
sysfsutils procpsutils \
vnstat \
unattended-upgrades \
ncurses-term \
cpufrequtils powertop \
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# Enable automatic security updates (careful!)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
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$template DailyLogs,"/var/log/archive/%$YEAR%%$MONTH%/%$YEAR%%$MONTH%%$DAY%.log"
\$template DailyLogs,"/var/log/archive/%\$YEAR%%\$MONTH%/%\$YEAR%%\$MONTH%%\$DAY%.log"
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# Use tmpfs for /var/run and /var/lock (may break some buggy packages), like Ubuntu
cat << EOF >> /etc/default/rcS
RAMRUN=yes
RAMLOCK=yes
EOF

# Allow running X11 apps remotely
sudo aptitude install xbase-clients

Chris Lamb has a good Debian installation checklist, from which I stole most of this list.

   1 # Configure sudo, adding my user to the sudo group so I don't get password prompts
   2 aptitude install sudo
   3 adduser xjjk sudo
   4 echo '%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/No-Passwords-for-sudo-Group
   5 chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/No-Passwords-for-sudo-Group
   6 
   7 # Disable installation of recommended packages (TODO: this is interactive; how to pass "yes"?)
   8 echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90recommends
   9 
  10 # Configure locales to prevent harassment about it later
  11 aptitude install locales
  12 dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
  13 # …or install all locales so they don't need to be configured/reinstalled
  14 aptitude install locales-all
  15 
  16 # Enable log compression with date suffixed extension
  17 cat /etc/logrotate.conf | sed "s/#compress/compress/" > /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp
  18 echo "dateext" >> /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp
  19 mv /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp /etc/logrotate.conf
  20 
  21 # Prevent PAM from allowing easily-crackable passwords
  22 aptitude install libpam-cracklib
  23 
  24 # Install essential utilities
  25 sudo aptitude install \
  26 openssh-server screen \
  27 rsync \
  28 atool lzma rzip xz-utils \
  29 htop dstat iotop \
  30 manpages manpages-dev \
  31 strace tcpdump lsof \
  32 moreutils \
  33 dnsutils \
  34 chrony \
  35 vim less \
  36 bash-completion \
  37 sysfsutils procpsutils \
  38 vnstat \
  39 unattended-upgrades \
  40 ncurses-term \
  41 cpufrequtils powertop \
  42 molly-guard
  43 
  44 # Enable automatic security updates (careful!)
  45 sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
  46 
  47 # HDD Temperature/SMART monitoring utilities
  48 aptitude install hddtemp smartmontools
  49 sed -i 's/^#start_smartd=yes/start_smartd=yes/' /etc/default/smartmontools
  50 /etc/init.d/smartmontools start
  51 
  52 # Configure rsyslog for daily archival logging
  53 cat << EOF > /etc/rsyslog.d/51-cron.conf
  54 # Enable cron logging
  55 cron.* /var/log/cron.log
  56 EOF
  57 cat << EOF > /etc/rsyslog.d/99-archive.conf
  58 \$template DailyLogs,"/var/log/archive/%\$YEAR%%\$MONTH%/%\$YEAR%%\$MONTH%%\$DAY%.log"
  59 # Archive logging
  60 *.* -?DailyLogs
  61 EOF
  62 cat << EOF > /etc/cron.daily/rsyslog-archive
  63 #!/bin/sh
  64 # Compress *.log-files not changed in more than 24 hours
  65 find /var/log/archive -type f -mtime +1 -name "*.log" -exec xz '{}' \;
  66 EOF
  67 
  68 # Use tmpfs for /var/run and /var/lock (may break some buggy packages), like Ubuntu
  69 cat << EOF >> /etc/default/rcS
  70 RAMRUN=yes
  71 RAMLOCK=yes
  72 EOF
  73 
  74 # Allow running X11 apps remotely
  75 sudo aptitude install xbase-clients

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