On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:55:28AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > As an die-hard old-school (err, make that, "ancient school") 'nix admin > I applaud the idea of trying to keep installs minimal, both for space > and security reasons. > > On the other hand, I recognize the value of having some basic utilities > handy to administer services, test them, debug them, and fix them. > Like many other people, I've got a favorite set that I often find > useful. I try to keep that set restricted to those that I can run > on a low-bandwidth ssh connection, because that's often exactly > what I have to do, and I try to avoid overlapping tools (although > arguably two of my choices, curl and wget, at least partially do so). > > My suggestion is that discussion take place over (a) whether it makes > sense or not to bundle a collection of such tools for easy installation, > and (b) what tools might be good candidates for inclusion. Here are > the ones that I've used across a variety of 'nix systems; I don't > claim that this list is the best or most inclusive or anything, it > just happens to be the toolset that I've found lets me deal with > most of the things I've had to deal with. > > curl
We ship wget in standard, which is close enough in functionality that I don't think two tools make sense. > dig (part of the BIND distribution) We ship both dig (dnsutils) and host (bind9-host) in standard. > lslk This sounds potentially useful, but is in universe and abandoned upstream. Doesn't lsof provide this functionality? > lsof > mutt Both in standard. > nmap This is in main, but we don't install it by default. A scanner probably doesn't belong in every installation. > patch This doesn't seem to be in standard, though I'm somewhat surprised that nothing in there pulls it in through a dependency. I think it's a good candidate for the server seed. > rsync standard > screen This is in desktop, not standard. A good candidate for the server seed. > surfraw (I *said* I was ancient-school) No comment. :-) > tcpdump > top Both standard. > traceroute We ship tracepath by default, which isn't setuid. traceroute is in main, though, since so many folks are more familiar with it. > w3m Currently in standard, and the subject of this thread. > wget Standard. -- - mdz -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
