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