Ok. So let me give you guys a quick run down on what happens when i try to install teamspeak on my linux server.

The first step is to make a new account called teamspeak. I cannot make a new account. This is what happens...
Now because that has not worked, I tried going ahead and installing with the root user. So i skipped the su part.

I performed the wget part successfully, getting the tar file into the root folder of the server (/). Here, it fails again. I try to extract the tar file but that dosnt work either.I cannot unrar the file. No matter what i do. Ive checked and i have the right spelling, everything. It wont unrar it. So i try to get around that by unraring it on my computer, then i ftp it to the server. Then i try to run the start script by typing ./tss_minimal_startupscript start and the many other commands that start teamspeak, but nooo. That dosnt work either. I get permission denied when I try to run the script. I try to add a user but apparently "command not found"
Thank you for your help in advance


PS: I used this http://sysadmingear.blogspot.com/200...teamspeak.html blog to install teamspeak because it is much better then the outdated and very broad tutorial on teamspeak.com

Which distribution?
what is the output from
You could try
You need to be root in order to add users.
To untar a file
Please give the commands you use and the error messages you get
Also make sure the file is exectable

Im sorry, Im a total noob in linux. Could you explain what you mean by Distribution and output? I tried useradd as well.
Im confused about which would be the root. Would this cd ~ take me to the root or cd /.

What did you mean by tar -xvf foo.tar

Most of the causing errors are permission is denied. And i dont know how much i should chmod it. The only exception the permission is denied is that one error with adding the user in which the command is not known. I think i might not be in the root, which leads me right back to one of my first questions. Which one would be the root? cd ~ or cd /.


Thank you for your quick response, I appreciate it.

Distribution can be ubuntu, debian, suse, fedora....
Open a terminal and type
copy/paste the output in your answer here.

In order to add a user you need to be root.
So depending on your distribution you can use su or sudo
This is the command to extract a tarfile
replace foo by the name of the tar file

[@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@]$ whereis useradd
useradd: /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/share/man/man8/useradd.8.gz
[@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@]$
[@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@]$ su adduser teamspeak
-bash: /bin/su: Permission denied
[@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@]$

Which distribution?
try

[@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@]$ sudo adduser teamspeak
-bash: sudo: command not found

which distribution?

You told me to type in whereis useradd, and thats the output i got from it.

We need to know which distribution you are using.

Yes. So how can i tell which distribution it is...

try

Command not found >_>

Did you installed the server yourself?
What do you see when you boot?
Do you know the root password?
try

Looks like its redhat 4.1.2-42

I pay monthly for the server.

Yes i log into SSH with the root password