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Install Debian 7.0 32-bit minimal. Btw you should post an output of "ps aux" command atleast to see what processes are you running. Then we can help what you could remove safely.
Here's a few tiny ones from OpenVZ.
http://openvz.org/Download/template/precreated
I would start from there as they are very very minimal already.
use Minstall
@sally Btw you did not mentioned what kind of virt. Technology are you on. OpenVZ, KVM? Or playing at home on a desktop box.
Great advice so far!
@pbalazs123 An OpenVZ VPS of 64mb. I mention Ubuntu cos it's the only Linux I'm familiar with.
Can't get the output of "ps aux" to display properly in this message, I'm afraid!
Use standard HTML-code instead of the rotten Markdown that the forum prefers.
@sally Don't be afraid of Debian, you can handle everything in the same way as like in Ubuntu. Paste the output to pastebin.com and get back with the link.
Wrap it in HTML pre tags.
But this line stands out (13.7% memory usage) and I don't even have a DNS server setup here. How the hell did "bind" get there?
bind 653 0.0 13.7 49192 9036 ? Ssl Jan28 0:00 /usr/sbin/named
@sally It's installed by default.
http://pastebin.com/Q5vngQtc
...shameless bump - and thanks for the input!
xinetd, sendmail, bind9, libsasl2, cups
But i would suggest you to install the Debian 6-7 32bit minimal template. It's more easier if you're not familiar in linux.
...can all be safely removed?
Thanks again for your help!!
That doesn't look like a standard OpenVz Ubuntu 12.04 install. Did you install all that stuff, or is it some custom template?
Yes, you don't need it.
I toyed with the idea of remote desktop but decided it wouldn't go on a 64mb box. I guess I could add xrdp to the list also? Thanks!
Yep.
Thanks a lot! I'll look into that also! Cheers.
centOS is a pretty minimal OS too, you might want to consider that
Thanks for the tip!!
Exim definitely need to be gone