CentOS - Nov 2019 - Post-installation setup script for CentOS 7 servers

Hi,

I just sanded down the remaining edges of my CentOS 7 post-install
configuration script and published it on a Github repository, along with
some detailed instructions.

  * https://github.com/kikinovak/centos-setup

Feel free to use it (and/or adapt it to your needs).

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki
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On Nov 17, 2019, at 05:11, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>
wrote:
> 
> I just sanded down the remaining edges of my CentOS 7 post-install
> configuration script and published it on a Github repository, along with
> some detailed instructions.
> 
>  * https://github.com/kikinovak/centos-setup
> 
> Feel free to use it (and/or adapt it to your needs).
I?m curious why you list these as ?cruft? packages?

chrony
firewalld
iperf
NetworkManager-libnm

They are all removed as per of the ?setup? command you provided. You remove the
default NTP service, you disable the default firewall (although you do install
iptables-service in base.txt) and you hobble NetworkManager.

Also, I?m sure it?s helpful for you, but setting all the default CentOS repos to
ones in France as a baseurl means that anyone using it would get that too, so
anyone thinking of forking the repo, don?t replace the CentOS repo files. The
mirrorlist url should give you geographically close mirrors.


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Le 17/11/2019 ? 14:15, Jonathan Billings a ?crit?:
> I?m curious why you list these as ?cruft? packages?
> 
> chrony
> firewalld
> iperf
> NetworkManager-libnm
* chrony: I'm using ntpd and ntpdate

* firewalld: https://github.com/kikinovak/firewall

* iperf: replaced by iperf3

* NetworkManager: great on laptops, useless on servers
> 
> Also, I?m sure it?s helpful for you, but setting all the default CentOS
repos to ones in France as a baseurl means that anyone using it would get that
too, so anyone thinking of forking the repo, don?t replace the CentOS repo
files. The mirrorlist url should give you geographically close mirrors.
You're right. The main reason I did this is because some of my servers
are behind filtering proxies, and more often than not, CentOS mirrors
are blocked.

I have to think about a practical solution for this.

Thanks for the feedback !

Niki

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