VPS Command Line Tutorials

Jason Spatafore jason at spatafore.net
Mon Jul 3 18:14:48 MST 2006


You can probably check what email server and ftp server is running by doing:

netstat

Then look for which process is listening to port 110 (POP, email) and port 21 (FTP)


 >>  Thanks Craig ,<br><br>Thanks for the references.<br><br>I was able to
 >>  determine the version of apache by httpd - v <br>and&nbsp; the version of
 >>  bind by named -v&nbsp; .<br><br>However I cannot determin which mail
 >>  server is running<br>nor which ftpd server is running.<br><br>Any help is
 >>  much appreciated.<br><br>Keith
 >>  <br><br><br><br><br><b><i></i></b><blockquote class="replbq"
 >>  style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
 >>  padding-left: 5px;">Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:59:49 -0700<br>From: Craig
 >>  White <craigwhite at azapple.com><br>Subject: Re: VPS Command Line
 >>  Tutorials<br>To: Main PLUG discussion list
 >>  <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us><br>Message-ID:
 >>  &lt;1151899189.11093.4.camel at lin-workstation.azapple.com&gt;<br>Content-T
 >>  ype: text/plain<br><br>On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 20:45 -0700, Alex Dean
 >>  wrote:<br>&gt; On Jul 2, 2006, at 3:49 PM, keith smith wrote:<br>&gt;
 >>  <br>&gt; &gt; I opted to not have a control panel because I hope to
 >>  learn.<br>&gt; <br>&gt;
 >>  There's no better way! :)  You may have trouble finding an 'all in 
 >>  <br>&gt; one' howto on these diverse topics.  Probably better to look for
 >>  more  <br>&gt; focused articles, and stitch together the skills you need
 >>  for your  <br>&gt; situation.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; &gt; What I would like to
 >>  learn is how to create Zone files,<br>&gt; <br>&gt; If you're just
 >>  getting started, I think DNS can be a pretty hairy  <br>&gt; animal.  (I
 >>  still prefer to let someone else handle mine.)  There's a  <br>&gt; great
 >>  free service at everydns.net which will allow you to control  <br>&gt;
 >>  just about everything you need to for your DNS.  I've had DNS for 
 >>  <br>&gt; many production sites with them for years with no trouble.  Just
 >>  an  <br>&gt; idea.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Here's some search results I just
 >>  found :<br>&gt; http://www.freeos.com/articles/3956/<br>&gt;
 >>  http://www.cramsession.com/articles/files/dns-demystified---the- <br>&gt;
 >>  zon-9172003-0852.asp<br>&gt; <br>&gt; &gt; Apache Vhost
 >>  configurations,<br>&gt; <br>&gt; http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/
 >>  (for Apache 2.0.  The 1.3  <br>&gt; version is basically the
 >>  same.)<br>&gt; The O'Reilly "Apache Cookbook" has a really great set of
 >>  tutorials on  <br>&gt; virtual hosting.<br>&gt;
 >>  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apacheckbk/<br>&gt; <br>&gt; &gt; FTP
 >>  configurations, and modify email accounts ETC from the command  <br>&gt;
 >>  &gt; line.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; These 2 are going to depend on which FTP
 >>  server and which mail server  <br>&gt; you are using.  You may say "which
 >>  one should I use?" and the  <br>&gt; response will probably be "what do
 >>  you want to use it for?".  Your  <br>&gt; server setup probably has
 >>  something installed already, so maybe  <br>&gt; getting started with
 >>  those is a good idea.  If you can figure out  <br>&gt; which ones they
 >>  are, you can try the man pages or web searches for  <br>&gt;
 >>  tutorials.<br>----<br>I run dns for internal lans but not exposed to the
 >>  Internet because you<br>have to
 >>  get deeper into it. I might suggest installing
 >>  webmin<br>http://www.webmin.com but that evidently isn't the point of
 >>  the<br>exercise.<br><br>I would suggest that both Apache and BIND are
 >>  mature, stable and well<br>documented on their respective web sites and
 >>  that would certainly be the<br>definitive documentation and possibly the
 >>  best place to start unless you<br>are looking for a walkthru in which
 >>  case, perhaps webmin isn't such a<br>bad
 >>  idea.<br><br>Craig<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br><
 >>  /plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us></craigwhite at azapple.com></blockquo
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Sincerely,

Jason Spatafore


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