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Re: Soliciting "I need these everywhere I go" package lists from Debian admins



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.
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