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

First of all, thank you for the clear, well written guide. It made everything alot easier not having to find instructions all over the place :).

However on a CentOs install I'm running into this font problem at the moment. I can't seem to find where I can solve this so far.

Any help is appreciated :).

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hi

very nice bro ....

This post was very informative

On centos 5.3 I wasn't able to get the VNC server running at all, tried changing the host name and still got the connection refused. Nothing was appearing in the logs. Did a full clean install (not just yum remove) and same problem. Tried on two different users and the same issue. Tried using the kimsufi box host but never worked either. Any ideas?

One of the best guides I've read about setting up a seedbox. Even a linux newb like me got everything working right.

hi have a problem when starting utorrent.exe log is:


err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry SCSI type line scan count error (fscanf returns 1, expected 2)
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems
err:wgl:has_opengl Intialization of OpenGL info failed, disabling OpenGL!
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 0 0x47ae3c 4
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x4c0000 0 0x47ae3c 4
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems
err:wgl:has_opengl Intialization of OpenGL info failed, disabling OpenGL!
err:imagelist:ImageList_LoadImageW Error loading image!
fixme:wininet:INET_QueryOptionHelper INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS: Stub
fixme:wininet:INET_QueryOptionHelper INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS: Stub
fixme:wininet:INET_QueryOptionHelper INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS: Stub
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap stub
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap stub

hi Naq,anyway great tutorial mate,and we expect more tutorials frm u in future..

i have some problem regarding this..when i'm installing utorrent
with following command

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>wine utorrent.exe

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i get an error message saying this..

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It seems like Utorrent is running but not responding.Please close all uotorrent process and try agian

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anyhelp wpuld be greatly appreciated mate thanks:)

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hi have a problem when starting utorrent.exe log is:


err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry SCSI type line scan count error (fscanf returns 1, expected 2)
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems
err:wgl:has_opengl Intialization of OpenGL info failed, disabling OpenGL!
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 0 0x47ae3c 4
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x4c0000 0 0x47ae3c 4
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems
err:wgl:has_opengl Intialization of OpenGL info failed, disabling OpenGL!
err:imagelist:ImageList_LoadImageW Error loading image!
fixme:wininet:INET_QueryOptionHelper INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS: Stub
fixme:wininet:INET_QueryOptionHelper INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS: Stub
fixme:wininet:INET_QueryOptionHelper INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS: Stub
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap stub
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap stub

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hi next1 same problem for me any solutin?

for exit utorrent.exe use , ps aux .. found the process id and make kill (pid) for starting first utorrent: wine utorrent.exe /NOINSTALL then configure utorrent , close utorrent.exe and start with: wine utorrent.exe hope this works for you.. for me use rtorrent

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for exit utorrent.exe use , ps aux .. found the process id and make kill (pid) for starting first utorrent: wine utorrent.exe /NOINSTALL then configure utorrent , close utorrent.exe and start with: wine utorrent.exe hope this works for you.. for me use rtorrent

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cool dude it was working anyway i installed older ver and it workes 1.8.4 ver doesnt work with this.

and now i'm havin new problem cant setup WEBUI, followed all instruction frm naq guide and also copied webui to desired folder..using port no 65000 when i open d url it prompts for username and password after entering dem its a blank white page no user interface.Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated. thanks to next1 :-)

edit
sometimes you need to put your hands under stone...

Hi.

I use an Ubuntu 9.10 Server (Karmic Koala) in 64-bit.

Everything has worked well until coming to the step 3 (Install softwares) :

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# apt-get install vncserver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package vncserver is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package vncserver has no installation candidate

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Any suggestion ? ^^

vncserver has been replaced by vnc4server. Just changing vncserver with vnc4server solves the problem.

Hi again !

Another problem here, that shouldn't be a problem for linux users: when I try to create the SSH certificate for VSFTPD, I have the following error message:

/root/vsftpd.key: Permission denied

Any advice ? :cry:

Dunno why, it works better by using Terminal (Putty for Windows users).

Heh.

Hi all

new to these forums and new to linux,

I'm keen to get into some dedicated seedboxing and learn a little bit of Lunix while I'm at it ;)

questions is, this (great) guide has a few version of certain linux distributions in it along with specific steps for these.

My options only include the following versions, will this guide still be pretty much spot on?

Also, any advice on which of the following I should pick would also be very much appreciated :D (from OVH)

Fedora 11
11 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Linux Plesk 9
9 (CentOS 5.2)
Kernel 2.6.31.5-std (OVH)

Linux Plesk 8.4
8.4
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Ubuntu Desktop 8.04
8.04 LTS 32 bits
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Debian 4.0 old-stable
4.0 "Etch" 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Debian 5.0 Stable
5.0 "Lenny" 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Ubuntu Server 8.04
8.04 LTS 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Ubuntu Server 8.10
8.10 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Ubuntu Server 9.04
9.04 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Ubuntu Server 9.10
9.10 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Thanks for reading!

Ubuntu Server 9.10
9.10 64bit
Kernel 2.6.31.5-grs (OVH)

Works great, really great.

I use it myself with Transmission Daemon (better solution than uTorrent IMHO), and I am pleased with it so far.

Thanks Yuuko, where can I get information about Transmission Daemon? is there a similar guide?

cheers

Well, yes and no. ^^
I made something but in French...

ah lol
afraid my French is nonexistent :P

Ah, sorry...

Ubuntu Server 9.10 will work great with the current guide, anyway.
You can try with it, and then, if you feel confident enough then, you can try Transmission, which is quite easy to install.

Hello all,

I'm a total n00b to linux but read this guide and thought it worth a go. I'm stuck though on what is probably something very simple. I got to step 6 installing utorrent. I have it on the server but when i type wine utorrent.exe it comes up with the installation wizard. This confused me as the guide says cancel install, when i do that how do i then launch utorrent if its not installed?

xterm does show an error:
Xlib: extension ''generic Event Extension'' missing on display '':1.0''

The guide is great btw... just hope I manage to learn something from it

Had the same problem. It's not covered in the guide, so don't blame yourself. :-)

Just type "wine utorrent.exe /noinstall" and you'll be done.

Thanks, I thought I would be up and running then.... but it didn't work :(
I got
wine: cannot find 'utorrent.exe/noinstall'

edit: got it!! wine utorrent.exe /noinstall

Don't forget the space between utorrent.exe and /noinstall. ;-)

The command is : wine utorrent.exe /noinstall

In this command, "wine" calls the program wine, "utorrent.exe" is the program Wine has to launch, and "/noinstall" is the option. They are three separate words.

Hope it helps. ^^

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Originally Posted by Yuuko

Don't forget the space between utorrent.exe and /noinstall. ;-)

The command is : wine utorrent.exe /noinstall

In this command, "wine" calls the program wine, "utorrent.exe" is the program Wine has to launch, and "/noinstall" is the option. They are three separate words.

Hope it helps. ^^

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It did help, thanks a lot and you got it right.. i missed the space :whistling

Just gotta sort out how to install additional ip's in ubuntu now and i should be done. Any ideas?

Glad to know you succeeded. :-)

What do you mean by "additional ip's" ?

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Originally Posted by Yuuko

Glad to know you succeeded. :-)

What do you mean by "additional ip's" ?

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We are sharing the seedbox so wanted to have a unique ip each user to prevent problems with trackers.
I got 4 ips from kimsufi so wanted to assign them to users. There is info in section 9 of the tutorial but says:
Configure Multiple IP Addresses
(Only for Fedora Core/CentOS right now)
Nothing that I can find for Ubuntu. I'm on Ubuntu server 9.10 btw

Try this :

# nano /etc/network/interfaces
or
$ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Append text as follows:

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
name Ethernet alias LAN card
address 192.168.1.7
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
network 192.168.1.0

Save and close the file.

Restart the network:
# /etc/init.d/networking restart

The Ip's I gave are to be changed with the ones OVH gave you.

I tried with the example you sent plus the way as described on the OVH website as follows:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
network xxx.xxx.xxx.0
gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.254

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address IP.DE.FAIL.OVER
netmask 255.255.255.255

Neither way will allow me to restart the networks though. It says this:

root@ksXXXXX:~# pico /etc/network/interfaces
root@ksXXXXX:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... /etc/network/interfaces:1: misplaced option
ifdown: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
/etc/network/interfaces:1: misplaced option
ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"

Seems there is a typo in the text you edited with pico. Can you post the content with pico, please ?

This is the entire contents of the networks as it is now:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
netmask 255.255.255.0
network xx.xx.xxx.0
broadcast xx.xx.xxx.255
gateway xx.xx.xxx.254

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address xx.xx.xxx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast xx.xx.xxx.255
network xx.xx.xxx.0

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast xx.xx.xxx.255
network xx.xx.xxx.0

auto eth0:2
iface eth0:2 inet static
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
network xxx.xxx.xxx.0

The eth0 being the server IP and the 3 failover IPs on eth0:0-2

Maybe changing it this way ?

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
netmask 255.255.255.0
network xx.xx.xxx.0
broadcast xx.xx.xxx.255
gateway xx.xx.xxx.254

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address xx.xx.xxx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast xx.xx.xxx.255
network xx.xx.xxx.0

auto eth0:2
iface eth0:2 inet static
address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast xx.xx.xxx.255
network xx.xx.xxx.0

auto eth0:3
iface eth0:3 inet static
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
network xxx.xxx.xxx.0

Great tutorial, thanks for taking the time to compile this.
I however unfortunatly came accross a problem on installing wine, i am running debian 4.0 and when i try apt-get install wine i get this message.

The following packages have unmet dependancies.
wine: depends: libwine-print (= 1.0.0-1~bpo40+1) but it is not going to be installed.
E: broken packages

edit - Ok ive tried this
# apt-get build-dep wine

Debian 64-bit users will need some extra packages:
# apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 lib32z1-dev Then i installed as normal
Now when i check my version i have 1.0 now should i upgrade the wine to 1.7 as i ve seen there may be problems with 1.0 or do i need to upgrade to debian 5.0?

Thanks in advance
SP

You should be fine.

Thanks Yuuko, now this is getting embaressing but ive came accross another problem which is connecting with vnc viewer, all im getting is failed to connect to server.
This is what ive put in, ive changed ip obviously but looks the same.
94.16.12.178:1
Is this how it should look? as the tutorial says myip:1
Also i got my server details last night which i have logged in and done part of the installation but it says on the email
IP address: %$^&
Server name: %$*%*
(active in 24-48h)
Its the active in 24-48 hours i dont understand, is this maybe why i cannot connect with VNC and cant finish this installation?

Edit eventually got through to OVH they say the server is fine and ready to use so its a problem from my side :(

Thanks again
SP

If you connected to your and worked on your server, your server should be active.
The 24-48 hours delay is for all dns servers to the world to acknowledge the existence of your server.
The IP you have to use is your server ip with :1 at the end.
So according to the information you give, it should be %$^&:1. You can try with %$*%*:1 (the server name).
Maybe is it just a configuration problem...

Great to see you online and helpful Yuuko coulddo with your helpful knowledge mate.
Is there any info you may need to see what im doing wrong?
Im connect to the server with putty and i typed vncserver :1
the response is Ks38764.kimsufi.com:1 is not tkaen because of /tmp/.x1-lock
remove this file if there is no X server Ks38764.kimsufi.com:1
A VNC server is already running as :1

On my home pc i am running New tightvnc connection and put the ip plus :1 in the vnc server window.

Any ideas and thanks again

So, it seems your vncserver is already running.
Can you give me the exact error message from your VNC client ?

It says Failed to connect to server (92.31.14.182:1)

Try to enter in command line :

$ vncserver -kill :1
(use sudo if necessary)

then

$ vncserver :1
(also use sudo if necessary) and retry.

If any error message, please paste it.

vncserver -kill :1
cant find file /home/andrew/.vnc/Ks38765.kimsufi.com:1.pid
you'll have to kill the xrealvnc process manually.

Ks38764.kimsufi.com:1 is not taken because of /tmp/.x1-lock
remove this file if there is no X server Ks38765.kimsufi.com:1
A VNC server is already running as :1

Again i have changed the adresses but these are close examples

Im thinking should i have installed the apps in my user i created instead of root account but it clearly says install in root?

Um. It goes beyond my experiences, sorry. :-(

Try Debian official forums, they should the answer.

No probs thanks for your help
Could this be the problem!!!!!
you'll have to kill the xrealvnc process manually
im using tight vnc
have i installed 2 different vnc from each other?