--- Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and > looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can > anwser one, some, or > all Please.... > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add > and remove programs > (in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed > on your OS. But > what about other packages or applications that are > not installed > through apt-get. Is there a another utility to tell > you want is all > installed on your OS, or to keep track of all > software/packages/applications installed? you can check for an existence of a package with apt-cache search [the name of whichever package you are looking for] I think that you can find any package nevertheless if the package that you are looking for is not there, then you can use a *.rpm package and use alien to conver to a *.deb file also you can install software that comes as *.gz or *.bz. Or compile it. But I think that debian comes with everything you need. > > 2. How do you check for all running services and how > to start/stop > system services that are unused? You can chek your process with: #ps -fea It will display a list of the processes that are running at the time if you want to terminate a process you can use #kill -9 PID (Process ID) I think there is a fancy way to do it but at the beginning you can use kill. If you want to disable a service it depends a lot in which service, but the most of them are in inetd.conf, you most comment the service that you don't want.
In the directory /etc/init.d you will find all the scripts that runs at boot time. > > 3. How do you check for all open ports and what > programs are using the > ports. #nmap [ip] in the case of your local machine 127.0.0.1 or the ip's of your interfaces. #netstat -alp --numeric-ports > > 4. What is the common folder Where most > software/packages/applications > installed into? depend on the package but almost everything is installed under /usr directory > > 5. Anyone has a good site for descriptions of the > configuration files > on a linux system. For Example XF86Config-4. I have > no idea of what > configuration files do what or where they are > located. www.tldp.org > > 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know > what programs > start at boot. You can use the command #man [command] in order to get description of how to use a command. I can recomend you that read the documentation at: http://www.tldp.org/guides.html Regards. ===== -- Sergio Basurto J. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton) -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
