artixify

A hilariously overengineered "frontend" for takeover.sh.

Instantly improve your Linux server!

These scripts will nuke the server they're run on and install a customizable and slightly opinionated Artix-runit server, without needing to use an install .iso or recovery environment.

It provisions a small Alpine Linux tmpfs, uses takeover.sh to make that the new root, then runs artix-bootstrap to perform the install.

How to use

• Download the scripts
• Uncomment/edit artixify.env with your desired settings
• Run artixify-stage1.sh, and be prepared to reinstall your server manually if something breaks
• The server will reboot itself, and upon successful login, you'll find the install log at /var/log/artixify.log on the new system

Things to keep in mind:

• This is set up for connman to automatically detect the IP, but I've found that some VPSes don't support automatic DHCP.
  • If your VPS doesn't support DHCP, and you don't set a static IP during setup, your server will reboot, but will be unreachable.
  • Check to see if your VPS is using a static IP address, and make sure to set one with this script if it is.
• You will need an SSH public key for which you have the private key. This is how you will SSH to your new system. Password logins are lame.
• root is intentionally missing a password. The goal is to have you set one yourself with sudo
• If you don't override NEW_PASS, then your new account password will be artix
• ufw is installed by default but is not enabled by default. Don't forget to enable it!
• I customize neofetch with some settings I think are nice, and have it run on login. Feel free to modify the configs if you don't like that, or simply remove neofetch from the EXTRA_PKGS install variable.
• Take a look at artixify-stage1.sh to see which packages/PKGBUILD packages I include by default. Notably:
  • rsv - better frontend for sv, makes it way easier to manage runit services.
  • svlogger - auto-enable logging for runit services, written by bahamas10 and made into PKGBUILD by me.