[colug-432] Setting Up New Servers

[Steve VanSlyck]

Hi everybody!

Is there anyone here who has ever set up more than two servers? I am
curious about what you may have thought of or done in terms of
automating the process.

For example getting the sudoers file the way you want it... Adding your
public key... Configuring your bashrc file... You know, all the little
things you do to make the server yours. Not necessarily software
installation although that could be done also.

I am looking for something that will make the job a little easier to do
than simply writing down on a piece of paper every single thing I do to
configure the box and then following my notes for the next server I set
up.

Maybe there is a method of running some sort of diff between the two
servers that would focus only on the kinds of things a server admin
would do the first day (assuming he could remember it all, and not
necessarily every single difference between every single file, which
would of course be overwhelming.