Projects to Learn Linux
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Well let me propose the extra complication just so you have my perspective....
In CentOS 7 you want to start the web server. What do you type? What is its name?
In CentOS 6 you just go to /etc/init.d and look and you can see the names of every installed service right there. No guessing or having to know ahead of time. You get to have the built in shell's tab-completion mechanism handle it for you. Can't remember if the database is mysql, mysqld, maria, maridadb, maridadbd, etc.? Just hit tab and it will tell you. Can't do that anymore.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Well let me propose the extra complication just so you have my perspective....
In CentOS 7 you want to start the web server. What do you type? What is its name?
In CentOS 6 you just go to /etc/init.d and look and you can see the names of every installed service right there. No guessing or having to know ahead of time. You get to have the built in shell's tab-completion mechanism handle it for you. Can't remember if the database is mysql, mysqld, maria, maridadb, maridadbd, etc.? Just hit tab and it will tell you. Can't do that anymore.
Ya I see your point. Systemd will list them but you can't tab complete through them.
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Yeah, it's not tragic, but the ways that we are used to working are gone. So have to adapt.
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@JaredBusch said:
@johnhooks said:
I just finished setting up an ELK server. Much less painful than I expected
Mine was horribly painful a year ago. I haven't come back to it. My problem was trying to go CentOS 7 when it was too new. If I had done CentOS 6 then, it would likely have been simple.
I was the same, about 3 months ago I started one, but ran into road blocks.. haven't gone back yet.
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I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Few things on Linux are ever as painful as people imagine that they will be.
That was me before- I thought it was very painful, but as time goes by I discovered it's not that painful if you're already familiar or at least you already know the command.
And I need to do work more to improve my knowledge. Looking forward to start working on learning Linux projects. -
@dafyre said:
I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.
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@scottalanmiller Thanks.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.
That's the one I used.
If you want to cheat, they have a one click installer
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Definitely no need to build your own from scratch. They have they prebuilt for you.
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I tried to Spin it up on CentOS7 at home last night... I got it almost working, but I'm still missing something aparently...
Where's that one-click installer at? I didn't see it anywhere...
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When you go to build a new machine on Digital Ocean, you select ELK as the VM type.
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Here you go...
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Calling it a "one click installer" is very confusing. It's nothing like that. It's a pre-built image.
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@scottalanmiller Ah, this would be my problem... I'm trying to build it myself, lol. Once I can deploy it by hand, then I'd look at a DO droplet or the like.
Learn it the hard way first, that way when you break it from the one-click-installer, you can at least go digging to figure out why it broke.
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So I got my own ELK stack installed in my meager office lab... It wasn't too teribly bad... I enjoy using the most recent packages when I (attempt) to build something, so I used the latest & greatest betas out for Logstash and Elastic. A few quick googles and I was good. 8-)
Now to replicate this on my home server which arguably sees more traffic than my office test setup, lol.
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Just finished installing Mediawiki on Centos
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I want to install next is Logging Server
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