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Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?

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When you get access to a new server via ssh, what's the first command you run? ls? nproc? lsb_release -a? uname -a?

Who, what, when, where, how, am I?

    whoami
    uname -a; cat /etc/issue
    date
    pwd; curl http://ipv4.icanhazip.com
    df -h; free -h; # htop

apt install fish && chsh -s /usr/bin/fish && curl https://github.com/wazzaps.keys >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

If I'm manually running commands on a server it means I'll likely use it interactively a lot, might as well not suffer

Was going to say /bin/init but your question was too well scoped. So “apt install htop”.

Correct

sudo tail -f /var/log/cloud-init-output.log

apt install man

I’m not kidding! That man.db is a light in the dark!

ps axu

whoami

pwd

ls -la

sudo apt install mc

command.com

dmesg

history

uname -a

curl ascii.live/rick

ssh funky.nondeterministic.computer