who : gets all the connections made to your account netstat –antp : to know all the process running on ports sudo /etc/init.d/network restart : restart networking on your linux box Understanding the init.d Directory – This directory has the control scripts for most of the services on our linux box. The start/stop/restart/reload/force-reload options can be used with any command found under this directory Most common Services controllable from this directory are: apache2, sshd, networking, ftpd, samba, mysql You can run any command using the following format: sudo /etc/init.d/<command> <option> where command can be apache2, sshd, networking etc and option can be start, stop, restart etc For ex: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Simple! Refresh DNS Cache Ping your linux box using “ ping <your_computer_name> ” – Note down the IP Address shown Look at the contents of ifconfig file using “ sudo /sbin/ifconfig ” – Read the part labeled as inet addr: The t...
Being in the industry for almost two decades, one thing that's been constant is change and my curiosity. I In this fast world of IT...being curious, learning and learning by doing is quintessential :) Here is my way of learning and sharing what I learnt!!! Author: Sirisha Reddy G V