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Deleting personal data in vps (and rpms from updates etc) for rebuild new personalized vps template [message #34136]

Sun, 07 December 2008 03:38

hostenlinea
Messages: 15
Registered: August 2008

Junior Member

Hi,
I am interested in removing all data not necesary in the vps, rpms from yum updates/upgrades and unique vps data to create an standard vps template but personalized (with control panel included for example etc). Then i tar.gz (once vps is stopped) and get my new system with modifications.
Maybe a "yum clean packages" or "yum clean all" can not delete all data.
I also remove the key files from /etc/ssh/ so when i create a new container it will generate new/unique keys. Other things i include... zero out the log files so they won't contain info from the previous container... remove accounts in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow and /home, the ips and networking info, i remove too the /tmp dir the .bash_history from root.
I should delete any file(s) more? I want make a good template, with the default services installed, with all packages installed but no personalized vps data and rpms from yum downloads.

All suggestions are welcome. Thanks for help Smile