= Server-oriented Task List =

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 1. Main points indicate category headings. Bullet points indicate tasks.

== The Task List ==

Installation

 * installing over a network
 * performing a server installation
 * creating a multi-boot system
 * installing without a cdrom drive
 * configuring TFTP netbooting

Software Management
 * configuring local and network sources
 * searching the local package archive
 * setting up a local mirror
 * managing packages using aptitude / synaptic
 * building binary packages from source packages


Networking
 * manually configuring the network interfaces file (including static and dynamic configurations for ethernet and wifi)

Network services
 * setting up am iptables firewall
 * setting up a DHCP server
 * setting up a DNS server
 * setting up a TFTP server
 * setting up samba and/or NFS

User management
 * configuring PAM (on clients) and LDAP (on servers)
 * configuring kerberos?
 * configuring NIS?
Printing

Disaster management and recovery
 * Knowing how to setup RAID
 * Designing/implementing a backup scheme

Boot process and Service management
 * enabling and disabling services during boot (i.e. configuring runlevels):
   * manually
   * using update-rc.d

Configuring major applications
 * configuring the MTA
 * configuring the web server
 * configuring a proxy server?

Security
 * Doing basic security checks
 * Knowing how to interpret log files
 * Configuring host-based firewalling using iptables and perhaps scripts/gui?

Hardware

Miscellaneous
 * configuring locales
 * reporting a bug