[Development Discussion] Minstall Server Management Script

eva2000

Unfortunately, having constant problems with github syncing from my machine (firewall/nat i think), prevents me using git. I use smartgit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/index.html (doesn't work for syncing) and also tried official git for windows (partially sometimes sync works). One day I'll figure it out lol

maxexcloo

@eva2000 said: Unfortunately, having constant problems with github syncing from my machine (firewall/nat i think), prevents me using git. I use smartgit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/index.html (doesn't work for syncing) and also tried official git for windows (partially sometimes sync works). One day I'll figure it out lol

Use the official client, it's rather nice (search for github windows)

eva2000

yeah when i mean official git for windows i meant github windows

jcaleb

Boss, will you consider a GUI in the far future? Or will always be command line?

mikho

I prefer commandline when it comes to stuff like this, I would however like to see support for multiple parameters.

That way one can have one line to copy/paste to make the vps "ready".

maxexcloo

@jcaleb said: Boss, will you consider a GUI in the far future? Or will always be command line?

I was thinking of making a nice simple web form one could fill out to generate a config file, this would greatly simplify server setup as it would simply be a matter of running something like "bash minstall.sh -c http://www.example.com/config.ini"

@MikHo said: I prefer commandline when it comes to stuff like this, I would however like to see support for multiple parameters.

That way one can have one line to copy/paste to make the vps "ready".

Funnily enough that feature has been in Minstall for quite some time
One can simply comma separate the modules to be run and it'll run them in order.

mikho

@maxexcloo said: comma separate

HA!

I tried adding them after each other, without any separator.
You learn something new every day.

maxexcloo

@MikHo said: I tried adding them after each other, without any separator.

You learn something new every day.

This is why Minstall needs better documentation (my fault :) :P

Noerman

@maxexcloo said: This is why Minstall needs better documentation (my fault :P

Love to have them.

maxexcloo

I just updated the loader code and commands in the readme, changes are currently untested.
Commit: http://www.github.com/KnightSwarm/Minstall/commit/fda12bcc6c21930788ffbd8e06ca147c2570f2f7

Currently Minstall looks like this:

$ bash minstall.sh
 -c path                set custom configuration file path
 -m module,module       define module list, this is how modules are defined for both attended and unattended installs
 -s                     create a template configuration file at either the custom configuration file path (-c path) or the default path if the custom path is undefined
 -u                     enable unattended mode, loads module list in the same way as attended mode but doesn't ask questions, instead pulling from the configuration file

Advantages of the new system include the ability to give options in any order and a much simpler loading mechanism!

Also, the new readme gives commands to install Minstall into

/opt/minstall

with a link from

/usr/bin/minstall

Feedback or option suggestions are appreciated!

ErawanArifNugroho

When will this launched and ready to use Max?

tsc

Am I the only one getting syntax errors when running the new version of Minstall? Running Minstall off Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, pretty much a fresh install from the disk.

maxexcloo

@tsc said: Am I the only one getting syntax errors when running the new version of Minstall? Running Minstall off Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, pretty much a fresh install from the disk.

Is this 2.5.7 or master? 2.5.7 is stable and should work fine, master is untested and liable to break everything

@ErawanArifNugroho said: When will this launched and ready to use Max?

When it's all done, probably a while yet...

Noerman

Database Creator
WordPress Nginx Optimizer
?

maxexcloo

@Noerman said: WordPress Nginx Optimizer

I could maybe do a wordpress installer (similar to the phpmyadmin installer)?

maxexcloo

Here we go, I've put together a nice list of issues to solve before the next release.
Feel free to post issues and suggestions too (no spam please) and I'll address them on a case by case basis, I've tried to add everything in this thread.

Issue List: http://www.github.com/KnightSwarm/Minstall/issues
Milestone List: http://www.github.com/KnightSwarm/Minstall/issues/milestones

Solved Issue/Request List: http://www.github.com/KnightSwarm/Minstall/issues?milestone=1&state=closed

Davidx

Uhh I liked where it installed itself into a directory I could see?

usr@sys:~# bash minstall clean-packages

libraries/40.check.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token (' libraries/40.check.sh: line 7: if [ $1 = ( $DISTRIBUTION || $DISTRIBUTION-$VERSION || "" ) ]; then'
minstall.sh: line 102: [: =: unary operator expected
usr@sys:~# bash minstall clean-packages
libraries/40.check.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token (' libraries/40.check.sh: line 7: if [ $1 = ( $DISTRIBUTION || $DISTRIBUTION-$VERSION || "" ) ]; then'
minstall.sh: line 102: [: =: unary operator expected

everything seems broken now?

edit;; found the old one sorry >.<

EricS

Wonder how hard it would be to base an install script based on how much memory footprint you want. because a wordpress install for 96mb is going to be a lot different than a drupal for 512mb.

maxexcloo

@David_P said: Uhh I liked where it installed itself into a directory I could see?

The /opt/ installation will be entirely optional

juan

does minstall already have the ability to upgrade packages? e.g: nginx and upgrade the OS version? Thanks.

maxexcloo

@juan said: does minstall already have the ability to upgrade packages? e.g: nginx and upgrade the OS version? Thanks.

Yes, the configure-upgrade module should upgrade the whole server

maxexcloo

Anyone else have suggestions?

kaflo

I tried using v1 of Minstall and there were 404 not found errors in the

bash minstall.sh install-extra-repositories command

Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/non-free i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.nickmoeck.com/debian/dists/stable/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'deb.nickmoeck.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://deb.nickmoeck.com/debian/dists/stable/main/i18n/Translation-en.gz Could not resolve 'deb.nickmoeck.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://deb.nickmoeck.com/debian/dists/stable/main/i18n/Translation-en_PH.gz Could not resolve 'deb.nickmoeck.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/squeeze/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

and

Installing The Debian Multimedia Repository...
--2013-07-08 22:24:55-- http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-multimedia-keyring_2010.12.26_all.deb
Resolving www.debian-multimedia.org... 78.159.121.198
Connecting to www.debian-multimedia.org|78.159.121.198|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-07-08 22:24:56 ERROR 404: Not Found.

dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in modules/install-extra-repositories/temp.deb
dpkg: error processing modules/install-extra-repositories/temp.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
modules/install-extra-repositories/temp.deb

Hope you could update the URLs

ErawanArifNugroho

Yes, the same problem. For this moment, I just removed the openstatus repo and the multimedia repo

netomx

Updates for Debian 7?