On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:02AM -0800, Chad 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? > Actually dpkg is the fundamental program. Try using dselect or, if you've X Windows properly set up, try using synaptic.
> 2. How do you check for all running services and how to start/stop > system services that are unused? > top ?? Starting/stopping services: update-inetd --enable or --disable or --remove (all from memory here - check :) ) > 3. How do you check for all open ports and what programs are using the > ports. > nmap localhost - should tell you what ports are open. lsof - may tell you a fair bit. If you can't find which services match which ports look at /etc/services which provides a list of well known ports. > 4. What is the common folder Where most software/packages/applications > installed into? > /usr/bin is a fair bet to start with. > 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. > Mostly under /etc/(name of package) e.g. /etc/X11R6/ or /etc/init.d or /etc/apache > 6. Where is the boot files? So I can control or know what programs > start at boot. > dmesg provides a log of the boot process. dmesg | less should slow down a lot of the boot process log and present it to you in pages of text rather than it scrolling off screen quite so rapidly :) > Hope this helps, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
