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  1. #1
    Join Date
    May 2007
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
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    new ordered dedi server has running with 73 days with all wired settings?

    HI all,

    I am not sure anyone in here has same experience, I have ordered new dedicated server from XXX (not disclose their name for now) in US,
    after I received welcome email, login with root password they provided, I found my server has been running 73 days, and when I check my memory usage,
    Code:
    total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:          2025       1995         30          0        762        985
    -/+ buffers/cache:        246       1778
    Swap:         1992          0       1992
    and most of files the owner is root, eg, I can no privilege to run su as normal user (funny), uder /usr/local, i got
    Code:
    drwxr-xr-x  22 root root  4096 Mar 30 04:32 ./
    drwxr-xr-x  18 root root  4096 May 15 17:16 ../
    drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 May 15 17:00 apache/
    drwxr-xr-x   4 root wheel 4096 Mar  3 16:23 bandmin/
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 15 16:58 bin/
    drwx--x--x  38 root wheel 4096 May 15 17:13 cpanel/
    drwx------   3 root root  4096 Mar  3 16:21 cpanel-rollback/
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 15 16:45 etc/
    drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Mar  3 16:07 frontpage/
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 21  2005 games/
    drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 May 15 16:55 imap-2004g/
    drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Mar  3 16:27 include/
    drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Mar 28 02:45 lib/
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 21  2005 libexec/
    drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Mar  3 16:09 man/
    drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 May 15 17:11 php5/
    drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 May 15 16:45 rkhunter/
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 21  2005 sbin/
    drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Mar  3 14:55 share/
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 21  2005 src/
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     2 Mar  3 16:03 ssl -> ../
    drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Mar  3 16:22 tt2/
    drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 Mar 13 06:12 Zend/
    I am not sure this is due to cpanel installed, as I never used cpanel before, but my feeling is that this server might be screwed up already, anyone can tell? thanks.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Oct 2005
    Location
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    lol

    Tell them that they apparently forgot to reformat it - ask for a clean OS install.

  3. #3
    Check cpanel license,may be someone else used the server before you but cancaled now,so they setup it for you without OS reload.

  4. #4
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    Location
    Manchester, UK
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    You'd be better off with an OS reload considering the clients files are still on there. Any datacentre worth there salt would pretty much force it.
    Rob Greenwood
    RedHat Certified, Unix Consultant
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/bilco105

  5. #5
    You are right..the server may have some changes. Better do a reload. In fact, you should get a clean server from the start.
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  6. #6
    Join Date
    Apr 2002
    Location
    Seattle, WA
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    Plus, it is possible that the server was compromised at some point.
    I <3 Linux Clusters

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    Florida
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    I am really curious what dedicated host is forgetting to clean up servers before reselling them.
    Tyler
    www.AdminZoom.com
    "Server Administration Done Right"

    Server setup, hardening, migrations and more

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