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notes from first use of a vserver
I've logged on happily onto somme.

On the surface , yes it looks like a standard debian install, but as you say some differences.

1. I install sudo and vim, (apt-get install sudo vim), then su - ( to root ). After editing the sudoers file and adding myself I cannot use sudo

alan@somme:/etc$ sudo su -
sudo: unable to lookup somme via gethostbyname()

until editing the /etc/hosts file. and altering it to this

209.51.169.86 somme.prevolution.org somme

the hosts file was empty before that.

2. I tend to use tcpdump, traceroute, mtr and nmap, to diagnose errors and perform security auditing after making configuration changes etc. I find that these dont work and give a socket error. Are these fixable ? Would iptables modules be similary affected ?

3. I tried to reboot the vserver by issuing an 'init 6' or a 'reboot' as root. Neither worked. Is it possible shutdown/reboot a vserver from inside it ?