OVH Seedbox & Fedora

[SgtMajor]

There's reports of 5 OVH boxes (which were paid for before the freebies came in)being booted yesterday for running torrents, so I will hold back on any paid box for sure

[Dubstepper]

There's reports of 5 OVH boxes (which were paid for before the freebies came in)being booted yesterday for running torrents, so I will hold back on any paid box for sure

Hmm, is this definite? Or rumours?

I don't want to be running torrents and getting the hosting closed down lol

[SgtMajor]

These were paid for.

Let me explain, the two I know of are paid for 100 dedicated. I didn't even know there was a free offer until I seen this thread. The servers I know were just shutdown were also paid for. Ours was not touched and it appears some servers were comprimised is what got them looking into it. Again ours was not touched and everything is fine, just not seeding with them at the moment.

How & what compromised means, I dunno, but don't be surprised if the freebies end up the same way.

They were after all, meant to be web hosting boxes with a free domain thrown in

So - remove root access, change port numbers, don't allow key auth access, that should prevent any snooping into what is on your box

[jam0980tr]

SgtMajor thanks for the tips and i'll be well care full i'll give it few days before i start work on this new seedboxs

Dubstepper

remove root access change the port and the key, set it up like SgtMajor you be ok

and thanks for everyone for helping in this thread <3

[Hrvoje]

So - remove root access, change port numbers, don't allow key auth access, that should prevent any snooping into what is on your box

how can that be done in w2k3?
thx

[fatcat69]

Nix was defo the way to go, mine is now running sweet as a nut on Fedora, and in my short time I have:

Got VNC running in full screen, via vnc server & win client, with utorrent also in full screen, using webui & firefox on my PC to add & remove torrents.

Installed an FTP server (VSFTPD), changed the default port number of the server, changed the default location so that I go straight to my /home directory where the torrents are, and am now downloading at 20MB to my home PC with 12 connections via WSFTP_Pro.

Changed the default log in port of the server, removed root as a login (for security reasons), added a user to login with (learned how to Switch User) to do root stuff, remember to switch back to user.

Learned that nano is much better than vi as a text editor.

So a huge thanks to all who helped, and a massive special thanks to the guy who I was in PM with, I hope I can pass on anything I learned to anyone else needing help & assistance.

If you got a Kimi with windows, ask them to change to a unix box, and just do it

Cough post a guide cough


Bc im setting up mine now.

[naq]

Good site to have if you are using fedora: http://www.fedorafaq.org/

Choose your FC version on top, then go to "How do I install software for Fedora" and follow the instructions there to add 3rd parties repositories to yum. The extra repos have more softwares and usually are more updated.

[fatcat69]

Good site to have if you are using fedora: http://www.fedorafaq.org/

Choose your FC version on top, then go to "How do I install software for Fedora" and follow the instructions there to add 3rd parties repositories to yum. The extra repos have more softwares and usually are more updated.

Sweet.

Im still following all the steps you guys posted higher up in the thread...im at the point where Im adjusting window size in vnc.

So far making progress faster then I expected.

Nix was defo the way to go, mine is now running sweet as a nut on Fedora, and in my short time I have:

Got VNC running in full screen, via vnc server & win client, with utorrent also in full screen, using webui & firefox on my PC to add & remove torrents.

Installed an FTP server (VSFTPD), changed the default port number of the server, changed the default location so that I go straight to my /home directory where the torrents are, and am now downloading at 20MB to my home PC with 12 connections via WSFTP_Pro.

Changed the default log in port of the server, removed root as a login (for security reasons), added a user to login with (learned how to Switch User) to do root stuff, remember to switch back to user.

K I did the edit of the file to fluxbox, restarted it, yet still cant change window sizes.

Is there special commands to use or what?

[jam0980tr]

mine is up and running and all the security fixes are patched

FXP TO FXP speed
[i] 100.0 Mbytes/12.25(s)/8,559.80Kbps
[i] 100.0 Mbytes/14.55(s)/9,208.69Kbps
[i] 100.0 Mbytes/12.72(s)/8,944.17Kbps
[i] 100.0 Mbytes/14.05(s)/9,464.77Kbps
[i] 195.4 Mbytes/13.95(s)/8,166.92Kbps

[naq]

K I did the edit of the file to fluxbox, restarted it, yet still cant change window sizes.

Is there special commands to use or what?

There are no commands... When you restarted vncserver, do you see the taskbar on the bottom in vncviewer? If not, either fluxbox wasn't installed or you didn't properly edit the xstartup file.