https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/ 2026-04-17T13:32:32+00:00 https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/ https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/docker Install Docker Host First, make sure that all of the latest patches are installed. sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo reboot Add Docker's GPG key that they use to sign the packages and repository: wget -qO - https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - cat > /tmp/docker.list << EOF deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable EOF sudo mv /tmp/docker.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ sudo apt update text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/dockerswarm Install Docker Swarm First, make sure that all of the nodes in the cluster have docker installed. On the master node: docker swarm init --advertise-addr $(ip -4 route get 8.8.8.8 | awk {'print $7'} | tr -d '\n') On each of the worker nodes: docker swarm join --token <token> <master-ip>:2377 text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/dokuwiki Dokuwiki Install and Upgrade DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source Wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in access controls and authentication connectors make DokuWiki especially useful in the enterprise context and the large number of plug-ins contributed by its vibrant community allow for a broad range of use cases … text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/graylog Install Graylog * Install OpenJDK JRE * Install MongoDB * Install Elastic Search version 6.x giving the cluster name of graylog VERSION=6 CLUSTERNAME=graylog * Install Graylog: wget https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-3.2-repository_latest.deb sudo dpkg -i graylog-3.2-repository_latest.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install -y pwgen authbind graylog-server graylog-integrations-plugins sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable graylog-server ###############… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/handbrake Install Handbrake In order to run Handbrake on Ubuntu, you'll need to install the packages necessary to compile the source code. sudo apt-get install subversion yasm build-essential autoconf libtool zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev \ libxml2-dev libogg-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libsamplerate-dev libfribidi-dev \ libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libass-dev text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/iscsi Install and Manage iSCSI Internet SCSI (iSCSI) is a network protocol that allows you to use of the SCSI protocol over TCP/IP networks. It is good alternative to Fibre Channel-based SANs. You can easily manage, mount and format iSCSI Volumes under Linux. It allows access to storage over Ethernet. text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/java Install Java Oracle Java 11 has introduced a new, commercial license. It can be downloaded and used without cost only for development and testing. It requires paying a fee if it is used in production. As a result, you should only use Oracle JDK if you intend to pay for it. Oracle JDK builds and OpenJDK builds are essentially identical with a few differences that you can read about text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/kubernetes Install Kubernetes First, make sure that all of the nodes in the cluster have docker installed. Disable the swap partition as it will cause errors in Kuberenetes: sudo sed -i .bak 's/ swap /# swap/g' /etc/fstab sudo sed -i.bak 's/\/swap\.img/#\/swap\.img/g' /etc/fstab sudo swapoff -a text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/mfc465 Install Brother MFC465CN Printer Besides the other instructions on the Brother website, you need to do these steps too ensure an error-free install on Ubuntu: ln -s /var/spool/cups /var/spool/lpd ln -s /etc/init.d/cups /etc/init.d/lpd mkdir /usr/share/cups/model dpkg -i mfc465cnlpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb dpkg -i mfc465cncupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386.deb text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/minecraft Install Minecraft Server First, Install OpenJDK Create a directory to store Minecraft sudo mkdir /opt cd /opt sudo mkdir minecraft Download Minecraft cd /opt/minecraft sudo wget https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/f02f4473dbf152c23d7d484952121db0b36698cb/server.jar -O minecraft_server.1.16.3.jar if [ -h minecraft_server.jar ]; then sudo rm -f minecraft_server.jar fi sudo ln -s minecraft_server.1.16.3.jar minecraft_server.jar text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/mongodb Install MongoDB wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc | sudo apt-key add - cat > /tmp/mongodb.list << EOF deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.2 multiverse EOF sudo mv /tmp/mongodb.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ sudo apt update sudo apt install -y mongodb-org sudo systemctl start mongod sudo systemctl enable mongod text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/nagios Install Nagios Server Nagios is an enterprise class, open source software that can be used for network and infrastructure monitoring. You can monitor servers, switches, applications and services etc. It will alert the System Administrator or other groups when something goes wrong and also alerts back when the issues have been rectified. text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/netcore Install .Net Core Something: cd /tmp curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/microsoft-ubuntu-$(lsb_release -cs)-prod $(lsb_release -cs) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list' text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/nrpe Configure Remote Hosts Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) * You need to install NRPE on every remote host that you want to monitor. NRPE will then communicate with a Nagios server. sudo apt-get -y install nagios-nrpe-server * Update the NRPE configuration: text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/openvpn_as Install OpenVPN Access Server First, make sure that all of the latest patches are installed sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo reboot I run this on both Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 servers without any problems... cd /tmp wget http://swupdate.openvpn.org/as/openvpn-as-2.1.4b-Ubuntu16.amd_64.deb sudo dpkg -i openvpn-as-2.1.4b-Ubuntu16.amd_64.deb sudo passwd openvpn sudo /usr/local/openvpn_as/bin/ovpn-init text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/proxy Install a Web Content Filtering Proxy Server As a parent, I'm alway concerned about what my children will have access to on the Internet. As a consultant, I work with many clients that are concerned about what their employees can have access to. I use these steps in both situations to set up a content filtering proxy server. I usualy use a didicated server for this purpose and run it on a VM. I'll then block the ports on the firewall and manually configure proxy settings. I've also been asked a… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/rsyncserver Install a RSync Server for Backups I use RSync to back up my Linux-based hosted servers to a remote location. I used to run RSync creating a SSH tunnel to copy the data. That was back in the “RedHat” day when it was acceptable to log into SSH via the root account. Now a days, I establish my SSH connections as a standard user. However, the standard user doesn't (and shouldn't) have access to read all of the files for backup. So My solution is to install a RSync daemon listening on localhost (127… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/siege Install Siege Siege is an HTTP load testing and bench-marking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP, HTTPS and text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/sonarqube Install SonarQube SonarQube is a free and open source quality management software that can be used to automate code quality inspections. Make sure that all of the latest patches are installed. sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo reboot text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/start Linux Installation Articles * Configure Remote Hosts Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) * Dokuwiki Install and Upgrade * Enable Yubikey Two-Factor Authentication for SSH * Install .Net Core * Install a RSync Server for Backups * Install a Web Content Filtering Proxy Server * Install and Manage iSCSI * Install Brother MFC465CN Printer * Install Docker Host * Install Docker Swarm * Install Graylog * Install Handbrake * Install Java * Install Kubernetes * Install Minecraft Serve… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/subversion Install Subversion (SVN) Server I primarily use Git now for source control, but I sometime still need to set up subversion servers for different organizations. These are the steps that I do to install... Install the necessary packages: sudo apt-get install -y subversion apache2 libapache2-mod-svn text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/syncthing Install Syncthing Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. It is an alternative to BitTorrent Sync and doesn't have the “stigma” associated with the “BitTorrent” phrase. I use this program to keep files synchronized between systems. Like my BitTorrent Sync installs, I have one server sitting in the text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/varnish Install Varnish Load Balancer Varnish is distributed in the Ubuntu package repositories, but the version there might be out of date, so I generally use the packages provided by varnish-cache.org. However, Varnish only provide packages for Ubuntu’s LTS releases, not all the intermediate releases. These packages might still work on the intermediate releases. text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/webmin Install Webmin I like to install and update Webmin via APT on my Ubuuntu systems. Here are the instructions I use to do the installation. They are based on the instructions from <http://webmin.com/deb.html>. cd /tmp sudo sh -c "cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list << EOF deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib EOF " wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install webmin text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/yubico Enable Yubikey Two-Factor Authentication for SSH cd ~ mkdir .yubico sudo aptitude install autoconf libtool libusb-1.0-0-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpam-dev sudo aptitude install build-essential wget https://github.com/Yubico/yubico-c-client/tarball/master tar zxvf master cd Yubico-yubico-c-client-* sudo autoreconf --install sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make install cd .. /bin/rm master wget https://github.com/Yubico/yubico-c/tarball/master tar zxvf master cd Yubico-yubico-c-* sudo autore… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/zabbix Install Zabbix Server First, make sure that all of the latest patches are installed. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo reboot Configure Firewall: sudo ufw allow ssh sudo ufw allow http sudo ufw allow 10051/tcp sudo ufw enable text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/linux/install/zabbix_agent Install Zabbix Agent In order for Zabbix to receive information from hosts, an agent needs to be installed. Follow the following steps to install agents on Linux servers. * Install the repository configuration package: cd /tmp wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.2/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.2-1+xenial_all.deb sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.2-1+xenial_all.deb sudo apt-get update