On Saturday January 24 at 01:21pm Julian Mehnle <lists@mehnle.net> wrote: > David B Harris wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:11:12 -0500 > > David B Harris <dbharris@eelf.ddts.net> wrote: > > > Hence this mail - I'm soliciting package lists from other Debian > > > admins and developers/maintainers. What I'm looking for (given the > > > small size of the target media) is the list of packages you, as a > > > Debian admin, install on pretty much every machine you either use > > > routinely or administer routinely regardless of what the purpose > > > of the box is. For instance, I have Vim on my list. It's my editor > > > of choice, I use it pretty much everywhere I can. > > > > Just for reference, my list is at > > http://eelf.ddts.net/~dbharris/temp/used-package-list > > In addition to what you already have on your list, I always install: > > adduser > apt-listchanges > hdparm (although I could imagine it doesn't make sense everywhere) I don't install that, I compile my kernel to automatically use it. > mc > ntp > ntpdate It would be nice to have some default servers. Perhaps one of the Debian machines is an ntp server, and could be the default? > perl-doc > recode > slocate > unzip > zip I'd remove telnetd-ssl from David's list. If I use telnet, its to test things like mail servers, where I'm just connecting to a remote port. What advantages does telnetd-ssl have over ssh? Plus, it would be beneficial if telnetd-ssl was used, to have it automatically reject plain-text sessions. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: The Independents - Bloody Night, Bloody Knife : Punk Vs. Emo (Disc 1 - Punk) Today is Pungenday, the 23rd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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