Hello,
I am reconfiguring several DU machines from scratch and would like to
solicit some opinions from the readership.
I've installed DU 4.0D from Disk 1, and so far nothing else. I wanted to
get people's opinions on additional software that people think should be
installed in addition to the software that comes with the OS.
There are some things I know are essential: The latest versions of bind,
sendmail, ssh, tcsh, perl, GCC, GNU make, GNU tar, tcp wrappers.
But there are many other programs about which I am unsure. Should I prefer
GNU finger to the one that comes with the system? What about the GNU
versions of awk and sed? The GNU binutils and textutils? We use mostly
tcsh for our users, do I need bash? Is there an ftp daemon that I
should use instead of the one supplied? These all seem to overlap programs
on the system already; are they really necessary?
Then there are the programs that are truly additions, things like bison,
python, expect. Are any necessary -- at least in the sense that other
things need them to function?
In sum, I guess I'm asking for recommendations on what has to be added to
a DU 4.0D machine to bring it up to a "standard" level of functionality
that would be expected of a Unix machine?
Thanks ahead of time for bearing with the naivete of the questions, I've
been a user all my life and only reluctantly became a system adminstrator
and there seem to be a lot of things that were lurking behind the scenes
where I couldn't see them.
-- Bennet
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Bennet Fauber
Social Science Data Service
University of California, Davis
Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 15:42:23 NZDT