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

It's /etc/init.d/ssh, no d at the end.

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Originally Posted by kross

It's /etc/init.d/ssh, no d at the end.

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cool, maybe a fix for that in the guide then for debian.

youre the helpful one arent you? Any ideas on the firestarter error?

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Did you proceed as described into this guide?
(Did you add your normal account into sudo config file with sudo?
Did you try to run firestarter with sudo (sudo firestarter) in terminal you launched in VNC?)

Puck, if you did that, then try to change the value for Defaults via visudo:
Defaults env_reset
becomes
Defaults env_keep=DISPLAY

Another thing: open a terminal into the remote desktop and type echo $DISPLAY.
Then, in the same terminal, log in as root and type:
DISPLAY=XYZ firestarter
XYZ is what "echo $DISPLAY" prompted to you.
(root can write on any X window screen)

Edit: You can also try that:
Defaults:user !env_reset
However, it's my solution, so I won't guarrantee it will work. :D

I juet get a problem starting firefox.
Here is the error message:

Error: Cairo does not yet support the requested image format:
Depth: 8
Alpha mask: 0x00000000
Red mask: 0x00000007
Green mask: 0x00000038
Blue mask: 0x000000c0
Please file an enhacement request (quoting the above) at:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=cairo
firefox-bin: /build/buildd/libcairo-1.2.4/src/cairo-image-surface.c:155: _cairo_format_from_pixman_format: Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed.
Aborted


any ideas?

Just and update.
I did reinstall the OS with CentOS 5 and now everything works ok, including firefox.
Thanks NAQ and all supporters.

Im now just trying to install ProFTPd instead of VSftpd... will keep update.

Hi. I wonder if anyone can help me. I'm pretty new to Linux. I've just got an OVH dedicated server with Debian Etch. I've followed NaQ's very useful tutorial and have managed to install Utorrent and it's working fine (GUI too).
However, I'm having no luck opening Firefox from Fluxbox. I've got Firefox on the menu but when I click to open it, the window flashes for a second and then disappears (almost as if it's opening in the background). I've tried a reboot but it doesn't change anything.
I'd be really grateful if anyone can give me a hand.
Thanks :-)

vncserver (vnc4server,tightvnc) -depth 24 :D

dance4 - thanks sooooo much! Does that make it open permanently at that resolution?
Also, is it possible to open Firefox rather than Iceweasel?
Again, thanks a bunch! :-)

Does that make it open permanently at that resolution?

yes

Also, is it possible to open Firefox rather than Iceweasel?

yes

Cheers. Thanks for the swift replies :-) I was really getting desperate over the Firefox prob.

Sorry to trouble you again. I followed some advice about making Firefox the default instead of Iceweasel by entering the following command:

ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

Now when I select Firefox from the menu, nothing happens :-(
Is there a way to undo the command?

ff isn't installed, if you want use ff3 isn't easy run it on Debian etch i can help you but write to me on skype or MSN

cool, great job

thx

Thanks Naq! Followed your guide and all worked well! Linux Seedbox Hooray!


However, I have a question regarding How-To upgrading or downgrading utorrent version.

I accidentally downloaded and used Utorrent 1.8Beta on the seedbox, vnc, fluxbox and utorrent works perfectly following your guide. But some torrent sites ban beta version of utorrent. Hence I would like to downgrade to version 1.7.7. How do I do that safely and retain all torrent settings, seeded torrents etc?

Is it like:
1. Shutdown currently running utorrent.
2. Goto Xterm or putty to command line and type:
$ wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.7/utorrent.exe
Replace/Overwrite previous utorrent.exe.
3. Log back into vnc session, and just restart utorrent (as I have already set the flux box menu with "[exec] (uTorrent) {wine ~/utorrent.exe}"

Is this correct? Or do I need to kill the VNC server as well?

Cheers.

sorted :)

everything works nice only one problem i have.

When i connect to the server with vnc my server desktop is very small.
Is there any way to mak it bigger ?

Great guide, thanks!

Great tutorial, Thank you.

Oh, since the utorrent 1.8 is out, to install 1.8, do I just need to
wget utorrent 1.8 and install webui in same way?

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Originally Posted by davidav

Great tutorial, Thank you.

Oh, since the utorrent 1.8 is out, to install 1.8, do I just need to
wget utorrent 1.8 and install webui in same way?

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Originally Posted by tokyosushi

However, I have a question regarding How-To upgrading or downgrading utorrent version.

I accidentally downloaded and used Utorrent 1.8Beta on the seedbox, vnc, fluxbox and utorrent works perfectly following your guide. But some torrent sites ban beta version of utorrent. Hence I would like to downgrade to version 1.7.7. How do I do that safely and retain all torrent settings, seeded torrents etc?

Is it like:
1. Shutdown currently running utorrent.
2. Goto Xterm or putty to command line and type:
$ wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.7/utorrent.exe
Replace/Overwrite previous utorrent.exe.
3. Log back into vnc session, and just restart utorrent (as I have already set the flux box menu with "[exec] (uTorrent) {wine ~/utorrent.exe}"

Is this correct? Or do I need to kill the VNC server as well?

Cheers.

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I didn't get an answer so i tested it out. Yup, to upgrade or downgrade your utorrent version, just follow the steps i mentioned in post#134.

Just shutdown utorrent, no need to kill the vncserver.
Then wget the utorrent version you want overwriting the previous utorrent.exe. Alternatively, you can rename the previous version first, and then wget the newer/older version you want.

Then just start-up utorrent again in your vnc session.

All your loaded torrents and previous utorrent settings will be retained and loaded in the newer utorrent you downloaded. As long as you don't touch anything in the application data/utorrent folder under your profile in the .wine folder.

Just simple as that.

Alternatively you can also download the utorrent you want to your pc, then upload it to the seedbox via ftp.

Hope this helps :)

so we can connect a linux server with vnc like windows remote connection right?

Great guide!!!
Was about time to kick the fuckin win out of our boxes.
I purchased an ubuntu server,i am following step by step your guide and when it comes to connect with VNC im gettin an error message.
Lets say my ip is this:xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
In VNC im using this to connect:

xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1


unfortunately i get an error like this:

unable to connect to host,connection refused(10061)


Can anybody guess what im doing wrong?
I am kindly asking for an answer from someone who is more experienced(it is my first time doing this).

Thanks for reading.

obviously vnc isnt running...

if you're using debian/ubuntu, you should've typed

apt-get install tightvncserver

then type

vncserver
(set the pw)
then you're off :)

When I start utorrent the log notify me of an error: Error opening Windows Firewall: 0x800700005 Errror -2xxxxxx Can I fix this by disabling in Utorrent menu: Add windows firewall exception?

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Originally Posted by n0_NaMe

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.

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Kill your vnc

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killall Xvnc

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Then launch vncserver with the -geometry tag

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vncserver -geometry 1860x1050

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and connect.

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My TightVNC viewer window is also pretty small, when I maximise i get black bars on each side.

This -geometry 1860x1050 resolution does that work on a 1280x1024 screen resulotion?

Thnx,awesome guide!Bookmarked!

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Originally Posted by 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! :)

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I haven't visited FST for a while... very surprised this is moved to a new section. I apologized to those who ran into troubles following the guide, especially those who sent PMs and didn't receive replies. I tried to make it as foolproof as possible, but with the different OSes (and versions), it's kinda impossible. I'll stick around to see what needs to be fix and improve.

reply to kross:

dist-upgrade: I thought upgrade was enough, there's no need to mess around with the system.

ports: from my own experience, I thought changing ports was enough, but if fail2ban or similar programs are easy enough to install, I'll add them some day.

sudo: yeah, the whole guide is about operating under a user, until the firewall section where the user needs sudo to run the firewall software, which I don't want but didn't see a way around. I know that "su" to root can't configure iptables, but not sure if "sudo" can.

authorized_keys: not sure what you're saying here, I thought the delete authorized_keys section was quite clear.

Thanks for all the replies.

Having trouble accessing the webgui. I put in the correct login name and password but it just keeps loading and that is it.
In my xterm window I see this message everytime I try to access my webgui:

WARNING: Trying to create a socket of type SOCK_RAW, this will fail unless you have special permissions.

Anybody have any clue as to what is causing this?

BTW I am using Debian and also for some reason Firefox is not showing up on my menu in Fluxbox.

I'll update the guide to use uTorrent 1.8 along with the newer version of WebUI this weekend.

This helped me so much i can't even say how much i appreciate it.

THANK YOU!

I bypassed all the problems I posted by just switching my OS from Debian to Fedora 8, and the things that I chose to use worked. Thanks for the guide.

OS: Fedora 8

I'm having a problem connecting to my VNC server...

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_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/CXXXX:X
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

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Not sure what's wrong...

I don't think those errors prevent vncserver from running. Can you post the text after them in the log? It will tell more...

Okay, I got more errors now... These might be the ones stopping it from working..

I cut some short because it was huge. Didn't even fit on the whole screen.

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Failed to read: session.screen0.window.unfocus.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menu.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuDelay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuDelayClose
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuMode
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.lineWidth
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.lineStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.joinStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.capStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowScrollAction
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowScrollReverse
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.allowRemoteActions
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabs.maxOver
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabs.intitlebar
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabFocusModel
Setting default value
BScreen::BScreen: managing screen 0 using visual 0x22, depth 16
Failed to read: session.ignoreBorder
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.forcePseudoTransparency
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabPadding
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.styleOverlay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.slitlistFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.groupFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.appsFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabsAttachArea
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.modKey
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.imageDither
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.opaqueMove
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.workspacewarping
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.desktopwheeling
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.reversewheeling
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.autoRaise
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.clickRaises
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.decorateTransient
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.defaultDeco
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.rootCommand
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.resizeMode
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowMenu
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.followModel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.userFollowModel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.window.focus.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.window.unfocus.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menu.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuDelay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuDelayClose
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuMode
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.lineWidth
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.lineStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.joinStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.capStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowScrollAction
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowScrollReverse
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.allowRemoteActions
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabs.maxOver
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabs.intitlebar
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabFocusModel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.ignoreBorder
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.forcePseudoTransparency
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabPadding
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.styleOverlay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.slitlistFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.groupFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.appsFile
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabsAttachArea
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.modKey
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.imageDither
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.opaqueMove
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.workspacewarping
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.desktopwheeling
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.reversewheeling
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.autoRaise
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.clickRaises
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.decorateTransient
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.defaultDeco
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.rootCommand
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.resizeMode
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowMenu
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.followModel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.userFollowModel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.window.focus.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.window.unfocus.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menu.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuDelay
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuDelayClose
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.menuMode
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.lineWidth
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.lineStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.joinStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.overlay.capStyle
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowScrollAction
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.windowScrollReverse
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.allowRemoteActions
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabs.maxOver
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabs.intitlebar
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.tabFocusModel
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.slit.maxOver
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.slit.alpha
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.slit.onhead
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.screen0.slit.layer
Setting default value
apps file failure
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":3.0".

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Nevermind! Used your iptables trick... Didn't know it applied to that. Thanks naq!!! Great tutorial

vncserver isnt working for anymore, im pretty sure the command was "vncserver" and now my vncviewer doesnt work, im sure the box is still online as i can connect through putty/ftp

vncserver isnt working for anymore, im pretty sure the command was "vncserver" and now my vncviewer doesnt work, im sure the box is still online as i can connect through putty/ftp

anyone running Ubuntu 8.04 with vsftpd 2.06 and using TLS /SSL auth has this problem?
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1...ntu1wx3.th.jpg
The italian sentence is: server has not properly closed TLS connection
It seems a well known bug, using latest Filezilla and vsftpd 2.06
Update to vsftpd 2.07 seems to solve the issue...but I can't find the package. Do I have to build from sources?
Is there any other nice and secure ftp server to try?
btw excellent guide!

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Originally Posted by t0mmy

vncserver isnt working for anymore, im pretty sure the command was "vncserver" and now my vncviewer doesnt work, im sure the box is still online as i can connect through putty/ftp

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You can't start a new vncserver? Any error messages? check the log?

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Originally Posted by hopes

anyone running Ubuntu 8.04 with vsftpd 2.06 and using TLS /SSL auth has this problem?
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1...ntu1wx3.th.jpg
The italian sentence is: server has not properly closed TLS connection
It seems a well known bug, using latest Filezilla and vsftpd 2.06
Update to vsftpd 2.07 seems to solve the issue...but I can't find the package. Do I have to build from sources?
Is there any other nice and secure ftp server to try?
btw excellent guide!

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Until Ubuntu repository updates to vsftpd 2.07, the easiest way is to use an older version of Filezilla. Another ftp server is proftpd, but you'll run into the same error I think.

Thanks, I solved compiling from source vsftpd 2.07.
It now works fine with Filezilla
Cheers

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Originally Posted by hopes

anyone running Ubuntu 8.04 with vsftpd 2.06 and using TLS /SSL auth has this problem?
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1...ntu1wx3.th.jpg
The italian sentence is: server has not properly closed TLS connection
It seems a well known bug, using latest Filezilla and vsftpd 2.06
Update to vsftpd 2.07 seems to solve the issue...but I can't find the package. Do I have to build from sources?
Is there any other nice and secure ftp server to try?
btw excellent guide!

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Until Ubuntu repository updates to vsftpd 2.07, the easiest way is to use an older version of Filezilla. Another ftp server is proftpd, but you'll run into the same error I think.

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Any idea why I get this error while FXPing.
[2] STOR d-653o01.zip
[2] 521 Data connections must be encrypted.
[i] Transfer Failed: d-653o01.zip

I never looked into fxp with ssl. Have you configured these 4 options in the ftp servers?
pasv_promiscuous
port_promiscuous
pasv_max_port
pasv_min_port

And make sure the max and min ports are properly forwarded in the firewall.

Maybe you can just have the data connections be encrypted optional with this:
force_local_data_ssl=NO

or don't use fxp with ssl with this:
force_local_logins_ssl=NO