After installing Slackware: a checklist

Should be done during installation:

• partitions
• /etc/fstab
• /etc/mdadm.conf
• /etc/mkinitrd.conf
• /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• /etc/hosts
• /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
• Software series:
  • server: a ap d e f k l n t tcl x y (i.e., all except for kde kdei xap xfce)
  • desktop: add xap and removet (to be replaced with TeX Live)

After installation

• Replace /etc/termcap with the termcap file from the xterm source because it has the xterm-256color entry
• # ln -sf /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi
• # chmod -x /etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.sh
• /etc/resolv.conf
• /etc/profile.d/lang.sh (not forget to comment out "export LANG=en_US" and "export LC_COLLATE=C")

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG LC_MESSAGES LC_TIME LC_NUMERIC LC_MONETARY

• /etc/profile.d/man.sh

alias man='LANG=C /usr/bin/man'

• Set ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512 in /etc/login.defs and re-create password for root
• Creat users (using adduser script)
• # usermod -a -G wheel alan
• ~/.bashrc:

source /etc/profile
[ -f "$HOME/.bash_profile" ] && source "$HOME/.bash_profile"

• .vimrc, .vim/
• $ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
• /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin no
PasswordAuthentication no
PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog no

• Remove lilo
• Upgrade kernel; /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local, blacklist unneeded modules
• # iucode_tool --scan-system --overwrite --write-earlyfw=/boot/ucode.cpio microcode.dat
• Disable unneeded rc-files, e.g., # chmod -x rc.acpid rc.alsa rc.consolekit rc.gpm-sample rc.wireless
• Configure a mirror and install all patches
• # slackpkg install bash-completion
• ~/.bash_completion
• Install and configure slackpkg+
• # /usr/doc/slackpkg+-*/setupmultilib.sh to configure and install multilib
• # sensors-detect. Add modules for lm_sensors to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local
• /etc/rc.d/rc.local

# Set all sensors limits as specified in the configuration file
if [ -x /usr/bin/sensors ]; then
  /usr/bin/sensors -s
fi

# Ensure the existence of /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
if [ -x /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen -a ! -x /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus ] ; then
  echo "Ensure that /var/lib/dbus/machine-id exists: /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure"
  /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure
fi

• # slackpkg install ipmitools
• /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.local

# IPMI modules
/sbin/modprobe ipmi_msghandler
/sbin/modprobe ipmi_devintf
/sbin/modprobe ipmi_si

• /etc/smartd.conf. For HDD:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-...  -a -o on -S on -I 9 -I 190 -I 194 -m root -s (S/../.././04)

For SSD, substitute "S" in parentheses with "L".

To start smartd uncomment the corresponding lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.M. If the machine is not always on, add the option --savestates=/var/tmp/smartd.

• Install wine