Free Arch Linux Shell Account

xelados · 2010-04-24 00:21:28

Would you be willing to install wgetpaste or another similar tool? tree would be useful too.

Last edited by xelados (2010-04-24 00:27:32)

maxexcloo · 2010-04-24 01:41:02

kaitocracy wrote:

maxexcloo wrote:
Can I have a 96 MB account with no LDAP or SQL?
max.excloo
maxexcloo@thegooglemaildomain.com
Is your email 'maxexcloo@thegooglemaildomain.com'? There is no MX record for the domain.

Sorry about that! I should have been more clear...

Thanks for the account!

kaitocracy · 2010-04-24 02:32:34

xelados wrote:

Would you be willing to install wgetpaste or another similar tool? tree would be useful too.

Yeah I installed tree. I'd rather install a tool for pastie, but I'll take a look into wgetpaste.

Kiwi · 2010-04-24 03:58:26

*cough* curlpaste!

It is like wgetpaste only supports a few better services, like codepad, which is cool cause it can run code (curlpaste has a -r, --run flag). And pasteit.ghost1227.com, which everyone should use cause ghost1227 is awesome! And wgetpaste does not have --vista option like curlpaste does, which is amusing! >.>

The services it has are:
ca (pastebin.ca)
codepad (codepad.org)
lodgeit (paste.pocoo.org)
ghost (pasteit.ghost1227.com)
dpaste (dpaste.com)
fpaste (fpaste.org)

It is also developed by an arch user so is therefor superior to wgetpaste by default.

Last edited by Kiwi (2010-04-24 03:58:52)

Wintervenom · 2010-04-24 04:55:02

If you still have the resources left, could I have an 256M account?

This would be nice, especially for Screen sessions, because the campus network here likes to deep-inspect and mangle packets, which always makes my connections get dropped. It would be nice to just resume the session and not have to reconnect to everything five million times a day.

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Scott Garrett
Wintervenom[(at)]gmail.com

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-24 05:58:39

24MB is enough for me too, thanks.

skualito · 2010-04-24 10:33:26

Hi, I saw you installed nethack, great, but the game exits with following error

Warning: cannot write scoreboard file record

Hit return to continue:

perm_lock: Read-only file system
Cannot lock perm for unknown reason (30).

Hit space to continue:

and returns to prompt.

I'll try help solve this... investigating now...
Edit: I found this thread

Ah, and also when using urxvt, it's complaining about unknown term type (TERM=rxvt-unicode in my case).

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lswest · 2010-04-24 10:44:06

skualito wrote:

Ah, and also when using urxvt, it's complaining about unknown term type (TERM=rxvt-unicode in my case).

Same here, prevents tmux from working properly (among other things), but it's not too big a deal, I can always just use a different terminal for ssh sessions for the time being.

dimigon · 2010-04-24 10:54:03

Hi there,

Nice effort! Could I have a 24mb account?

Name/Lastname should be sin.revhead, my e-mail is stateless at archlinux.us

I don't need any SQL/LDAP stuff.

Last edited by dimigon (2010-04-24 13:59:13)

Staerseus · 2010-04-24 11:48:55

Can I have on, too? My mail is: janiktomanek <at> gmail.com

Thank you very much .-)

EDIT:// I forgot to tell you my name - Jan Tomanek.

And 25 MB is sufficient for me :-)

Last edited by Staerseus (2010-04-24 18:33:06)

JHeaton · 2010-04-24 12:00:38

You can solve the urxvt problem, which I had as well, by issuing the following from your own machine.

infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh user@host "mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"

Hope that helps

kaitocracy · 2010-04-24 14:48:18

lswest wrote:

skualito wrote:
Ah, and also when using urxvt, it's complaining about unknown term type (TERM=rxvt-unicode in my case).
Same here, prevents tmux from working properly (among other things), but it's not too big a deal, I can always just use a different terminal for ssh sessions for the time being.

Fixed by installing the rxvt-unicode package.

lswest · 2010-04-24 15:01:42

kaitocracy wrote:

Fixed by installing the rxvt-unicode package.

Cool, thanks!

kaitocracy · 2010-04-24 15:36:43

skualito wrote:

Hi, I saw you installed nethack, great, but the game exits with following error
Warning: cannot write scoreboard file record

Hit return to continue:
perm_lock: Read-only file system
Cannot lock perm for unknown reason (30).

Hit space to continue:
and returns to prompt.
I'll try help solve this... investigating now...
Edit: I found this thread
Ah, and also when using urxvt, it's complaining about unknown term type (TERM=rxvt-unicode in my case).

It turns out that the default install of nethack in Arch Linux is not FHS compliant and tries to write to /usr/share/nethack. Unfortunately /usr is NFS mounted and more importantly read-only. I suspect that the VARDIR variable in the nethack Makefile specifies where the game tries to write to. Will try this weekend to get a working version up.

austin.rbn · 2010-04-24 21:38:54

Thank you so much for the account! This is really quite a generous contribution to the community. I like the idea of an RSS feed via Twitter, too.

dptkby · 2010-04-24 22:04:41

Just of curiosity, what motivates you to do this? How come you have a bunch of servers around with no better use than shell accounts for Arch users? Just genuinely curious. Great contribution, anyhow!

gtklocker · 2010-04-24 22:31:05

I'm interested in, too.

I'd want an 96MB account, to the email address:

karanti.linux <at> googlemail <dot> com

Thanks in advance!

kaitocracy · 2010-04-24 22:48:17

dptkby wrote:

Just of curiosity, what motivates you to do this? How come you have a bunch of servers around with no better use than shell accounts for Arch users? Just genuinely curious. Great contribution, anyhow!

Actually I'm a web developer. I work on several projects at a time and I have two Linode 360's and a Linode 720 that I need for work. I could get away with a single Linode 720 but I keep the other two around for redundancy, which means that there's a large amount of server resources that I'm not using each month.

Giving out shell accounts is actually a win-win situation for me. If my server crashes then there is a better chance that I will be notified of it by one of my users and have time to fix it before my clients would have noticed (which is a situation that should be avoided at all costs). I'm also hoping that this will help me improve security on the server since other users may catch security holes that have escaped my notice. And of course it helps the community.

So to be honest it turns out that it actually benefits me to hand these accounts out and keep my users satisfied and happy and using my server since the more time my server is being used the greater the "buffer" between me and my clients.

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gtklocker · 2010-04-24 23:52:15

Thank you very much man

Hiato · 2010-04-25 11:01:24

@kaitocracy: Thanks so much, I haven't really been home that much this weekend, but I did do some light testing yesterday and I'm very pleased. Seeing as I have the old default, and at most I'll be running some minor IRC stuff, I'm more than happy to switch to 24mb and let more guys have some fun with this.

Do you have any guidelines/recommendations for CPU/NET or resource usage in general? Not that I will be pushing the envelope, just curious.

Thanks again (:

kaitocracy · 2010-04-25 11:14:35

Hiato wrote:

@kaitocracy: Thanks so much, I haven't really been home that much this weekend, but I did do some light testing yesterday and I'm very pleased. Seeing as I have the old default, and at most I'll be running some minor IRC stuff, I'm more than happy to switch to 24mb and let more guys have some fun with this.
Do you have any guidelines/recommendations for CPU/NET or resource usage in general? Not that I will be pushing the envelope, just curious.
Thanks again (:

Okay I switched you to 24 MB. CPU isn't a problem, I'm got four blazing Xeon VCPU's. NET isn't a problem either, but please enable SSH compression. MEM is a little limiting so please try to use software installed system-wide = single instance of shared library between multiple people. IO is actually the big one. Please talk to me if you're running any IO intensive applications (> 1000 writes / second). > 40000 writes / second will pretty much halt the server. Easy to hit if you have an application that is logging and error and retrying with no wait or timeout.

Other than that enjoy.

aznblur · 2010-04-25 11:31:45

Oh yes, switch me to a 24mb account, since I won't have too much use for it other than bitlbee and IRC.

Thanks!

Last edited by aznblur (2010-04-25 11:31:58)

chpln · 2010-04-25 12:23:08

I'd be interested in a 24MB account.

Chris Mann
cshclm -at- gmail -dot- com
No SQL or LDAP required.

Thank you for your contribution!

Beini · 2010-04-25 12:48:02

Got mine. Thanks!

Last edited by Beini (2010-04-28 08:51:24)

mgzzy · 2010-04-25 13:30:18

Awesome contribution! I'd like to have a 24MB one.

Ozan Sener
themgzzy (gmail) .com
I don't need SQL or LDAP.

Thanks

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