Is there a way to do an apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian that not only automatically answers "yes" to all questions asked, but also uses reasonable defaults as answers to questions that are sophistic...

What is the command to display a list of open ports on a Debian server? I tried netstat -a | egrep 'Proto|LISTEN' but I would like something more specific that actually lists the port number.

May 5, 2010 · How do I create a user with root privileges in Debian? Maybe it sounds a bit silly, but I don't think I need user directories, only some rights to run services (mainly web server, mysql, etc.).

How to install/change locale on Debian? Ask Question Asked 16 years, 5 months ago Modified 5 years, 3 months ago

Feb 19, 2019 · I have a Debian 8 server for a customer that is failing a PCI scan, presumably running: nmap -p 22 -sV customer.edu which returns 22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 6.7p1 Debian 5+deb8u7 This …

Aug 9, 2019 · I have a fresh installation of SELKS(Debian 9) and I configured the network manually, but I can not bring the interface eno1 UP. I get the error: RTNETLINK answers: File exists ifup: failed to br...

Note: later I plan to use iconv to convert the content of some files with something like this: iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 iso.txt > utf.txt However I don't know of a good way to convert …

Question: What is the way to determine, ahead of time and without doing a full install of 64-bit Debian Testing NETINST, when Debian Testing has 32-bit libraries available and fully working and

Jul 10, 2013 · I'm working on a Debian server as an inexperienced admin. I need to change the full name of a user (not the login name) provided during adduser USERNAME. How can I do this? I …

If you have a recent Debian, it load the /etc/sysctl.conf at the last one (see 99-sysctl.conf file). This topic is for old Debian (before 2014). In the new versions, the files must have a number to know the order …