VJmes / build-tools

Assortment of Linux scripts for performing initial system builds

🛠️ Build Tools

Build Tools performs the first-stage configuration of a clean linux install along with somestatus scripts I use regularly.

Note

This is still an in-progress migration & (partial) rewrite of old code.

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buildInitial.bsh

Performs the initial round of system configuration, allowing for the installation of a standard set of packages, pulls down helpful customization repositories and sets up a basic administrator account to work with.

Usage

On a new host you can pull down the buildInitial to perform a heap of first-run actions prior to performing anything else, can grab the file directly with:

# Wget
wget -O buildInitial.bsh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VJmes/build-tools/main/buildInitial.bsh

# Curl
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VJmes/build-tools/main/buildInitial.bsh

buildInitial.bsh [hostname.fqdn] [username] <timezone>

buildFilesystem.bsh

Builds a custom filesystem in alternate-disk mode where specific mountings are put on a seperate disk for performance, security or portability/backup reasons. At a minimum this will create a swap based on total physical memory and perform numerous helpful filesystem tweaks and adjustments.

Usage

buildFilesystem.bsh <block-device>

motd.sh

A very simple MOTD (Message of the day) script I use to get a snapshot of a host's information at login.