LinuxAdministration

This page forms the entry point to the documentation of my self-hosting project. Most of the pages referenced here provide details how to configure parts of the system, but a few pages also provide general information about a topic, such as details on SSL certificates on the ServiceEncryptionWithSSL page.

Hardware and OS

• Mac Mini (an old page for previous hardware is Hardware considerations)
• Operating system; see the Debian page for details about working with the OS of my choice

Security topics

• Securing the box
• Service encryption with SSL (see also CAcert and OpenSSL)
• fail2ban
• SASL authentication

Core system

• Debian package management
• Basic system configuration
• Bootloader (currently Grub)
• systemd (init system)
• Managing the Linux kernel (old pages are KernelConfiguration for building custom kernels, and a list of custom kernels I built)
• Disk maintenance (how to organize a hard disk and deal with problems)
• Network configuration (including details about ADSL and WiFi router configuration)
  • Service Provider SolNet
  • Service Provider AIK (historical details)
• PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
• NSS (Name Service Switch)

Core services (services which are used by other intranet systems/services)

• Service syslog
• Service LDAP (currently OpenLDAP)
• Service DHCP (currently ISC DHCP)
• Service DNS (currently BIND9)
• Service Database
  • Service default (currently MySQL)
  • Service fallback (currently PostgreSQL, for anything else that does not work with the default)
• Service SMTP / Mail Transport Agent (currently exim)
• Service HTTP / Web (currently apache2)

Email related

• Spam filter (currently SpamAssassin)
• Virus scanner (currently nothing, possible amavis, ClamAV)
• Service IMAP (currently Dovecot, previously Courier)
• Webmail (currently Roundcube, previously SquirrelMail)

Web related

• Wiki (currently Mediawiki)
• CMS (currently Drupal)
• WebDAV
• Web site maintenance

Other system administration

• X11 configuration
• Backup solution (a combination of tools, see the pages in the Backup category)
• System monitoring (currently Zabbix, previously Nagios)
• System statistics (currently collectd)
• NTP

Developer services

• Subversion
• Git
• Bugtracker (currently Bugzilla)
• QuincyKit (crash reporting service for iOS apps)

Other services

• Service SSH (currently OpenSSH)
• File server
  • Default file server (currently Samba)
  • Alternative file server (currently NFS, for any cases that do not work well with Samba)
• rsync
• CalDAV and CardDAV (currently DAViCal)

Disabled/removed services

• FTP (WuFTP)
• Horde Web Applications
• Plone
• Ajaxterm
• mod_musicindex
• Turn-based Go server
• Squid web cache
• MLDonkey
• Photo gallery (currently Gallery 2)
• Mailing lists (currently Mailman)