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I am lost:.. .got a Linux dedicated server - now what???
| Posted by yankleber, 01-12-2011, 10:36 AM |
| Hi there!
I am glad to have joined to the community, and I am anxious to start the new brave world of dedicated servers!
Well, let me tell you my short story... my boss just hires a Godaddy Linux dedicated server (Ubuntu), and now I have to make it worth the monthly fee he is paying for. I don't need to do too much, just install and activate Java and setup a multiplayer software on it.
OK, the case is that I should let you know that I don't know jack about Linux command line (I am under Windows XP), and the only thing I could do so far was to stablish a SSH remote connection using Putty (at least I could ensure that my login/password are correct - LoL).
Now I would like to know how to do nice things such as upload and download stuff, run applications, etc. Could someone point me some kind of tutorial or roadmap?
PS: I am a experienced user, just don't know about Linux mechanics and also this is the first time I will manage a dedicated server.
I'll appreciate any follow up...
Thanks a lot!
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| Posted by rustelekom, 01-12-2011, 10:48 AM |
| may be this does help http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...e/ch07s03.html
application could be installed using apt-get i guess.
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| Posted by rustelekom, 01-12-2011, 10:49 AM |
| apt-get install setup (just as example)
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| Posted by firedrone, 01-12-2011, 12:07 PM |
| Can you let us know what exactly you want to use the server for?
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| Posted by firedrone, 01-12-2011, 12:39 PM |
| Removed>>, ubuntu's help section - https://help.ubuntu.com/ very useful
Last edited by Mike V; 01-12-2011 at 02:15 PM.
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| Posted by yankleber, 01-12-2011, 01:41 PM |
| Hey hey all,
Thank you very much for such warm welcome and unexpected such quick feedback!
<> You make me feel like in home.
<>
Starting from the feedback of Rustelekom, I could find WinSCP that showed me how to transfer files back and forth between my Windows machine and the Linux server.
Stepping forward, I also googled a bit to find something that could push me toward the Java direction. Anyway, in the SSL command line, I tried:
java -version
-sh java: not found
Then I tried:
whereis java
java: /usr/share/java
Then I still tried:
sudo update-java-alternatives -l
kleber is not in the sudoers file. this incident will be reported.
OK, so far as I could understand I couldn't user the sudo application (this is an application to edit a few setup parameters, am I right?) because apparently my username is not present in the credentials list. At least Ubuntu seems to get upset with me when I typed my password!
Well, I have no idea what I can do from here - I am really stucked with it because I have not root access. I have readed somewhere that I could trick sudo, by changing some kind of configuration using the Sudo graphical interface (that should be more friendly), but my Ubuntu install has not graphic mode (just command line). So, here I am stucked again...
Any clue?
Last edited by Mike V; 01-12-2011 at 02:13 PM.
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| Posted by yankleber, 01-12-2011, 02:09 PM |
| Hey folks,
Here I am again.
Starting from the feedback of Rustelekom, I could find WinSCP that showed me how to transfer files back and forth between my Windows machine and the Linux server.
Stepping forward, I also googled a bit to find something that could push me toward the Java direction. Anyway, in the SSL command line, I tried:
java -version
-sh java: not found
Then I tried:
whereis java
java: /usr/share/java
Then I still tried:
sudo update-java-alternatives -l
kleber is not in the sudoers file. this incident will be reported.
OK, so far as I could understand I couldn't user the sudo application (this is an application to edit a few setup parameters, am I right?) because apparently my username is not present in the credentials list. At least Ubuntu seems to get upset with me when I typed my password!
Well, I have no idea what I can do from here - I am really stucked with it because I have not root access. I have readed somewhere that I could trick sudo, by changing some kind of configuration using the Sudo graphical interface (that should be more friendly), but my Ubuntu install has not graphic mode (just command line). So, here I am stucked again...
Any construtive clue?
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| Posted by Mike V, 01-12-2011, 02:14 PM |
| Thread cleaned. If you have something helpful to contribute to the thread starter, please do so. Asking somebody to use Google to search defeats the purpose of having a forum. Yes, these questions have been discussed before, both here and elsewhere. But that doesn't qualify as a valid reason to attack the thread starter.
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| Posted by yankleber, 01-12-2011, 02:23 PM |
| I think I forgot to mention - we are going to use the server to run a Java multiplayer server module. Just that.
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| Posted by arjones85, 01-12-2011, 10:54 PM |
| Just out of curiosity, you seem like you have never used a linux server before. Why Linux? You may want to consider either going with a Windows server instead (java multiplayer software can be ran on Windows too), or perhaps going cheaper with a VPS from a place like linode.com. A VPS allows you to have a dedicated environment for much cheaper, and gives you the ability to destroy and recreate the OS on the VPS as needed so that you can learn.
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| Posted by SagoJonB, 01-12-2011, 11:55 PM |
| It appears you have been commission by someone to act as an administrator of this server. So you need to have full sudo capabilities or be able to gain root access. "Someone" created a user login for you. You should contact whoever that "Someone" was and have them give you full sudo credentials (to be able to basically do anything that the root user could do), or alternatively have them give you the root password. In the latter case, you would login as root instead of kleber.
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