Arto's Notes re: Ubuntu

Submitted Bug Reports

• #1155695 mq_overview(7) fs.mqueue.queues_max

Relevant Bug Reports

• #1217407 whoopsie spams the log with "online" messages

Creating a User Account

https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/user-management.html#adding-deleting-users

$ sudo useradd -m -c "Arto Bendiken" -G staff,adm,sudo -s /bin/bash arto
$ sudo passwd arto

$ sudo useradd -m -c "Buildbot slave" -r buildbot

Release Information

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

Disable Apport

$ echo enabled=0 > /etc/default/apport
$ sudo service apport stop

Firewall Configuration

• https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/serverguide/firewall.html
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW

$ ufw disable
$ ufw allow ssh/tcp
$ ufw allow http/tcp
$ ufw allow https/tcp
$ ufw allow ...
$ ufw enable
$ ufw status verbose

$ ufw deny from 1.2.3.4
$ ufw delete deny from 1.2.3.4

Network File System (NFS)

• https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/network-file-system.html
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NFSv4Howto

$ apt install nfs-common
# configure 'Domain =' in /etc/idmapd.conf
# configure mounts in /etc/fstab

Post-Installation Tasks

$ apt update
$ apt upgrade
$ reboot

$ apt install acpid     # on virtual machines
$ apt install git       # for revision control
$ apt install joe       # my preferred simple editor
$ apt install tree

$ mkdir -p ~/.config/pulse
$ echo autospawn=no > ~/.config/pulse/client.conf
$ pulseaudio -k

$ apt-get clean

Toolchain Repositories

$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
$ sudo add-apt-repository -y "deb http://llvm.org/apt/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty-3.5 main"

Common Lisp Development Environment

$ sudo apt install clisp         # GNU CLISP
$ sudo apt install ecl ecl-doc   # Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL)
$ sudo apt install gcl gcl-doc   # GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
$ sudo apt install sbcl sbcl-doc # Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)

$ sudo apt install cl-asdf
$ sudo apt install cl-launch --without-recommends

Core Utilities

$ sudo pkg_add bash
$ sudo pkg_add curl
$ sudo pkg_add wget
$ sudo pkg_add rsync
$ sudo pkg_add tree
$ sudo pkg_add git
$ sudo pkg_add screen--

$ sudo apt install strace

Text Editors

$ sudo apt install joe
$ sudo apt install vim-nox
$ sudo apt install emacs24-nox

Toolchain

$ sudo apt install make autoconf automake libtool
$ sudo pkg_add g++-4.9.0p0
$ sudo apt install clang-3.5

Python

$ sudo apt install python-pip

GUI

$ sudo apt install lxde xinit