Monthly Archives: September 2008

How to secure and optimize a VPS

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I found an interesting post on a HyperVM forum, on how to Secure & Optimize a VPS – the link can be found here

Although a lot of this is aimed at cPanel VPS’s it can be used on any other VPS without a cPanel control panel as well.

Please note, this is NOT my work, it’s someone else’s, and I cannot take responsibility for any damage it may cause. Use at your own risk.

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Interesting Linux & Windows compatible chat program

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For quite some time I’ve used BorgChat for Windows networks, and it works very well as a local chat client between users on the LAN, without having to use extra internet bandwidth.

Recently, however, I wanted to join a Linux desktop to the Borgchat network, but since Borgchat doesn’t work on Linux, I need to find something else that does.

So, I found the following: QChat
According to their website it will work on Linux, and Windows. So, let’s see what it does :)

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How to fix “Unable to open pty: No such file or directory” error in OpenVZ

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For some odd reason, one of the VPS’s on my OpenVZ Virtual Server sometimes looses the /dev/pty device files – I don’t know why, but it happens.

So, a quick fix, is to run the following commands, as root, on the main host node.:

In my case, the VPS’s ID is 1001.

So, the command I have to run is

vzctl exec 1001 /sbin/MAKEDEV pty

This will then re-create the /dev/pty device, and the VPS will work again

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