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

[azza2102]

would you be able to copy the source into a text file and send it to me?

[makwi]

NAQ, 10x for guide! It works quite well(with a little google help) on my home test server(Ubuntu 8.04), till "SSH Secure" If I tried to load "Key" into puttygen, I couldn`t find it at /root for "root" and at /home/user-name/.. there aren`t /.ssh/ directories, at least visible.. what did I do wrong? And is this step SO important?(I mean If I have a good, strong password; its not the problem for me to type it every log in)
And what means TBA in "Ecrypt the HD"?

[GroggyP]

For the SELinux and .ssh parts of the initial setup, what directory should I be looking in?

for the selinux part at least, I went cd .. and found there were directories etc & sysconfig & selinux

This is in Debian, so I guess I'm really only asking about the .ssh part

Also, when installing the dependencies for vncserver I get the following 'error' messages

Setting up xfonts-encodings (1.0.0-6) ...
Setting up xfonts-utils (1.0.1-1) ...
Setting up xfonts-100dpi (1.0.0-3) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist or is not a directory

Setting up xfonts-75dpi (1.0.0-3) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory

Setting up xfonts-base (1.0.0-4) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory

[GroggyP]

Trying to compile wine, get the following error message trying to extract the .tar files

localhost:~# ls
archive.key files wine-1.1.7.tar.bz2
localhost:~# tar -xvjpf wine-1.1.7.tar.bz2
tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

[naq]

.ssh is in /root/

About the tar error, it seems you don't have bzip2 installed, type this to install it:

# apt-get install bzip2

I'm not sure about the fonts warnings. If they are just warnings, and the installation went through, you are probably fine.

[GroggyP]

Thanks man, got it working now.
I get some weird cairo error when I try to open firestarter or firefox, but I don't think I need them atm.

I am having a problem with HTTPS connections in utorrent, I researched the error and it seems I don't have the required 'libs' to run https? I'm new to debian, but do you happen to know how to go about installing this?

[ProUnbeatable]

@naq
do you have any messanger? like msn, gtalk, aim... I really need help setting up the vnc it doesn't work for some reason. It kept showing "Failed to connect to server (my.ip)" I followed your guide too... errr can someone help?

[GroggyP]

I killed all the existing vncservers
started a new one using

vncserver -localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :1

but when I try to log on using TightVNC Viewer a dialogue box saying "Connection closed." pops up (doesn't ask for password, I enter "localhost" for server).

So I killed that one, started a new one using

vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :1

And it let me log on using "localhost" as the server in TightVNC Viewer. Is this still connecting securely through the tunnel putty creates?

[Karel]

nvm. sorted it.

[andrew16]

I'm having trouble with VNC Viewer. I get the connection refused error.



I flushed the iptables but still unable to connect. I've checked the hosts file and all seems fine. Any idea where I'm going wrong?

The O.S is Debian 4.0.

Thanks, Andrew.

P.S - It's an OVH server so a reinstall is easy to do if required!