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Minimal VPS Installation

My server from YardVPS was already pretty darn close to a minimal installation. There were few more things left to do however:

• Update the server
• Install Midnight Commander (personally can't live without this thing!)
• Stop and disable httpd (the Apache web server)
• Stop and disable sendmail (mail server, ugh, i really don't trust those, don't want someone to hack and start spamming on your behalf! You can always set your mail to be handled by Google Apps)
• Stop and disable saslauthd (do not need the authentication service)

yum -y update
yum -y install mc
echo export LANG=C >> .bash_profile
service httpd stop
service sendmail stop
service saslauthd stop
chkconfig httpd off
chkconfig sendmail off
chkconfig saslauthd off