// get started with ubuntu 7.1
// e.g. on a new slice from http://slicehost.com !

# 1) make yrself a user and stop being root

# 2) main web stack + ruby
sudo aptitude install -y make screen
sudo aptitude install -y apache2 php5 mysql-server
sudo aptitude install -y subversion postfix
sudo aptitude install -y ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev rubygems irb
sudo aptitude install -y imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8 librmagick-ruby-doc libfreetype6-dev xml-core

# 3) gemz
# rubygems appears to be broken as hell. 
# gem update --system does squat
# had to manually d/l rubygems 1.0.1, ruby setup.rb
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29548/rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
tar xzvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
cd rubygems-1.0.1
sudo ruby setup.rb
sudo gem install rails mongrel merb map_by_method

Just a simple reminder how to use the WD MyBook WE with Linux properly.

sudo aptitude install smbfs
sudo mkdir /media/sharename
sudo vim /etc/nsswitch.conf

change

hosts: files dns

to read

hosts: files wins dns

sudo aptitude install winbind

I mount it manually with

sudo mount -t cifs //MyBookWorld/PUBLIC /media/shares/MyBook/PUBLIC -o username=
"vasil",password="MyPassword",iocharset=utf8,uid=vasil,guid=vasil,rw,noperm

first to find the big hex number
then to add it. Note the format of the command

xauth list
xauth add ubuntu/unix:0 . 8443108aff2df3cff0d91fa307ad3885

for various reasons (like installing vmware tools)

apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

look up package names and contents via shell

apt-cache search <search string>

// description of your code here

will give you a nice list of installed packages...

apt-get install apt-show-versions

apt-show-versions | sort

best way to remove all traces of them is

apt-get --purge remove packagename

(I got fancy and did apt-get --purge remove php5* which removed all of em)

Added a 256slice w/ Ubuntu 6.06

passwd
rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Atlantic /etc/localtime
vi /etc/apt/sources.list [add 4 universe repos]
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
adduser kenzie
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config [PermitRootLogin no, UseDNS no, AllowUsers kenzie]
/etc/init.d/ssh restart
sudo update-alternatives —config editor [1]
visudo [kenzie ALL=(ALL) ALL]
reboot
apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server
mysqladmin -u root -p password yourpassword
apt-get postfix
apt-get install chkrootkit [and run it]
vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini [display_errors = Off, log_errors = On, error_log = /var/log/php-error.log]
apt-get install subversion php5-xsl

Shorewall firewall.
Munin and Monit monitoring.

Edit /etc/network/interfaces and adjust it to your needs (in this example setup I will use the IP address 192.168.178.50 for eth0):

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.178.50
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.178.0
        broadcast 192.168.178.255
        gateway 192.168.178.1
        #optional
        #dns-nameserver 102.168.178.1

You can also edit /etc/resolv.conf to configure a dns-server to use:

nameserver 192.168.178.1

this is something that strangely doesn't happen automatically on ubuntu
in Ubuntu, just add

send host-name "dapperbox";

to your /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf file

you might need to do a

sudo /etc/services/networking restart

On your Mac, you can now do

ssh username@dapperbox

instead of

ssh username@1.2.3.4

1) Install the software

sudo apt-get install sshfs

2) Add fuse to /etc/modules

sudo nano /etc/modules

3) Add yourself to the 'fuse' group, then log out and log in again.

sudo adduser your-username fuse

4) Create a mountpoint and give yourself ownership

sudo mkdir /media/mount-name
sudo chown your-username /media/mount-name

5) Mount the filesystem

sshfs remote-system-name:/remote-folder /media/mount-name

6) Unmount the filesystem

fusermount -u /media/mount-name

Directions lifted from Ubuntu forums and here also.

For myself, I had better results running the following command in the same directory that the file that I mounted resides in...

sudo sshfs user_name@subdomain.strongspace.com: folder_name

Where folder_name is the name of the folder that you are mounting strongspace to.