NaQ's Complete Setup Guide for Linux Seedboxes (Fedora Core/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu)

[seeding123]

hey thanx for the great guide :-D really appreciate it

[forthat]

that was very helpful .........

[Dawe24]

thx m8

[kross]

Just a few things about your tutorial:
- (debian) When you're upgrading your system:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
is not sufficient, to upgrade kernel and other system programs, you need to do:
apt-get dist-upgrade
Adding "-y" to the command will indicate that the system does not have to ask you questions and the defaut answer is "Yes".
- changing ports for FTP and SSH is not the best solution to counter cracking attempts.
There are so many programs which can tell you how to find opened ports and what service is runned on each of them. A better solution would be fail2ban. "You send me garbage? Ok, I'll ban you for a specific period." I suggest to anyone interested in security to do some searches on fail2ban.
- According to your tutorial, there are things you can only do with root. Maybe I'm forgetting something, but the way you defined the user "pirate" in /etc/sudoers tells to the system "pirate" with the sudo command can do everything on the system. In fact, pirate is another administrator on the machine. Same priviledges in fact.
- What's the purpose of copying the public key of the root in his own ~/.ssh/authorized_keys? An administrator needs to do "ssh localhost" and connect without typing the password? "su -" will be more efficient and "> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" will just create an empty "~/.ssh/authorized_keys".

Hope this will help you to make your tutorial better!

[Lincoln]

Thanks for the great guide, it took me 15 minutes to setup my new leaseweb box. Everything is running fine except two things. When I launch tightvnc the screen is very small so I cant see the full desktop.

Kill your vnc

killall Xvnc

Then launch vncserver with the -geometry tag

vncserver -geometry 1860x1050

and connect.

[h1pp0]

in the CentOS section of updating the Extra.repo you need to add this in the [dag] section, dunno why OP omitted it

gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

Some people might get a no public key found for "blah blah" package without it

[premanna]

just got a server with centos 5.1 need help setting it up guys. i get this error on putty - connection refused - (nooB)


pm me for more info

[Jargs]

wow thanks dude

[h1pp0]

just got a server with centos 5.1 need help setting it up guys. i get this error on putty - connection refused - (nooB)


pm me for more info

Make sure your connecting to the right port and that your iptables (if you set it up) is allowing incoming connections to your sshd port

[Lincoln]

# yum install wine
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

# wine utorrent.exe
bash: wine: command not found

So...wtf?