Install Packages                Ziva
10 Jan 2013

11:15
                                dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
  geographic area               etc
  timezone                      UTC

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11:16
                                apt-get update   # sync with package database
                                apt-get upgrade  # upgrade existing packages


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11:18
                apt-get -y install ntpdate
                apt-get -y install ntp

                vi /etc/ntp.conf
                        add 
#                        server 10.240.158.4
#                        server 10.128.240.4
                        server clock.coas.oregonstate.edu

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11:20
                apt-get -y install rsync
                apt-get -y install lynx    # text based browser
                apt-get -y install uucp
                apt-get -y install gnuplot
                apt-get -y install minicom # serial user interface
                apt-get -y install expat   # xml parsing
                apt-get -y install nmap    # network monitoring
                apt-get -y install make
                apt-get -y install perl-doc
11:24
11 Mar 2013
                apt-get update   # sync with package database
                apt-get upgrade  # upgrade existing packages
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###
### default editor
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### controls behaviour or visudo, and crontab

                        update-alternatives --config editor
There are 3 alternatives which provide `editor'.

  Selection    Alternative
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*         0    /bin/ed
          1    /bin/nano
          2    /usr/bin/vim.tiny

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 

                        2
Using `/usr/bin/vim.tiny' to provide `editor'.


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11:25
                apt-get -y install sudo
                visudo          # /etc/sudoers
                        add toby

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		df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             143G  3.3G  133G   3% /
tmpfs                1009M     0 1009M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                 1004M  196K 1004M   1% /dev
tmpfs                1009M     0 1009M   0% /dev/shm