Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........
--- Chad <chadCan@gmail.com> 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.
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