[Infrastructures] Re: Host installs?

[Daniel Pittman]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Hi All, When doing host based installs are most people installing
> everything available from the vendor - ie Full+OEM->Solaris,
> Everything->Redhat? 

Heck, no. That's the *last* thing you want to do.

> Everything->Or are you only installing certain packages
> (clusters) for any given OS? 

Not only do I select based on the purpose of the machine, I tend to trim
the list down to exclude a number of packages that the vendor[1]
installs in the "base" system.

> Do most people not really care anymore, because disks have become so
> large? If everything is installed then how do most people deal with
> making sure services aren't started, cfengine?

If you don't need it, don't put it on there. Aside from the issue of
disk use, and of security holes as highlighted elsewhere, you complicate
backups and hide important information in the mass of unused files.

        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  Debian, primarily.

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