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

[naq]

Yes.

[shadowking]

thanks for the guide. i managed to set up my box.

[Ion]

try: apt-get install openssl

That was it naq!

Thanks for your help and thanks for this excellent guide.

[aname??]

AWESOME tutorial, but

Im getting some errors here.

Firefox is not in the menu and when I write firefox in xterm I get this error
Error: Cairo does not yet support the requested image format.

When I try to start firestarter I get like 1000 error popups and this error in xterm:
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:


Edit: I solved it by adding -depth 24 in vnc

[Ion]

Great guide naq.
Quik question though. After following the guide i can't seem to use FTP to upload anything. Is there a way to change permissions or something so that I can create folders and upload data via ftp?

I'm using Debian 4.0 (etch) and FlashFXP.

[redMonster]

All right, I managed to connect via FTP, but where is the Downloads folder. It takes me to a folder which has .vnc, .wine, .fluxbox, etc. folders.

[Vanquiz]

# 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

First, I would like to say thanks for the great tutorial.

This is my first time trying to set this up, I got the same error, and Lincoln did mention that Wine doesnt run well in Centos 5 64bit, so Im stuck now at the step to install utorrent.

Any help? Thanks in advance.

EDIT : Got it

I found this page http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...topic_id=14987

Apparently I just need to add #rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...5-3.noarch.rpm and install wine after that.

[Xapsa]

Hiya
How come I keep getting all this whenever I type in the iptables -t filter -L

Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     tcp  --  localhost.localdomain  anywhere            tcp flags:!FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
ACCEPT     udp  --  localhost.localdomain  anywhere
ACCEPT     tcp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  anywhere            tcp flags:!FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
ACCEPT     udp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  anywhere
ACCEPT     tcp  --  cdns.ovh.net         anywhere            tcp flags:!FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
ACCEPT     udp  --  cdns.ovh.net         anywhere
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            limit: avg 10/sec burst 5
DROP       all  --  anywhere             255.255.255.255
DROP       all  --  anywhere             ##.###.#.###
DROP       all  --  255.255.255.255      anywhere
DROP       all  --  anywhere             default
DROP       all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state INVALID
LSI        all  -f  anywhere             anywhere            limit: avg 10/min burst 5
INBOUND    all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LOG_FILTER  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            LOG level info prefix `Unknown Input'
Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            limit: avg 10/sec burst 5
LOG_FILTER  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            LOG level info prefix `Unknown Forward'
Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     tcp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  localhost.localdomain tcp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     udp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  localhost.localdomain udp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     tcp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  ks#####.kimsufi.com tcp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     udp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  ks#####.kimsufi.com udp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     tcp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  cdns.ovh.net        tcp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     udp  --  ks#####.kimsufi.com  cdns.ovh.net        udp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
DROP       all  --  255.255.255.255      anywhere
DROP       all  --  anywhere             default
DROP       all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state INVALID
OUTBOUND   all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LOG_FILTER  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            LOG level info prefix `Unknown Output'
Chain INBOUND (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpts:54320:54322
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpts:54320:54322
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:5901
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:5901
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:ssh
LSI        all  --  anywhere             anywhere
Chain LOG_FILTER (5 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
Chain LSI (2 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
LOG_FILTER  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LOG        tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 LOG level info prefix `Inbound '
DROP       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
LOG        tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/RST limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 LOG level info prefix `Inbound '
DROP       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/RST
LOG        icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            icmp echo-request limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 LOG level info prefix `Inbound '
DROP       icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            icmp echo-request
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            limit: avg 5/sec burst 5 LOG level info prefix `Inbound '
DROP       all  --  anywhere             anywhere
Chain LSO (0 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
LOG_FILTER  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            limit: avg 5/sec burst 5 LOG level info prefix `Outbound '
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
Chain OUTBOUND (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere

When I type in
iptables -F

The server gets stuck and I can't do anything?
BTW I stuck those #'s in there

[RoBz]

Everything has been working fine for me for months now...

I just reinstalled my (local) machine and now I can't seem to connect with VNC. SSH works fine, I have the tunnel setting correct in PuTTY, vncserver is active, but when I run VNC Viewer I get the error:
unable to connect to host: Connection refused (10061)

Any ideas?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Solved, I had "5901:localhost" in the PuTTY SSH tunnel settings instead of "localhost:5901"
<---Idiot

>_<

[Vanadium]

Great guide naq.
Quik question though. After following the guide i can't seem to use FTP to upload anything. Is there a way to change permissions or something so that I can create folders and upload data via ftp?

I'm using Debian 4.0 (etch) and FlashFXP.

You need to uncomment the following in /etc/vsftpd.conf:

# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

--

An unrelated tip that might help someone, you don't have to log in to have everything start up after reboot / crash. Simply add:

wine ~/utorrent.exe &

to ~/.fluxbox/startup just before the line:

# And last but not least we start fluxbox.

which will automatically startup utorrent when fluxbox starts (which is when vnc server starts).

To start VNC server automatically, add:

su - username1 -c "vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :1"
su - username2 -c "vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :2"

and so forth to /etc/rc.local

This way, when the server boots, after everything is loaded the vnc servers start (and if you followed the guide you'll already have "startfluxbox" in ~/.vnc/xstartup) which causes fluxbox to start, which causes wine / utorrent to start.