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.

Jul 12, 2019 · Apparently Debian 10 alias Buster only provides openjdk 11 packages. In my case this meant using debian 9 alias stretch instead. I must admit it wasn't very clever using latest as a version …

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 …

May 22, 2020 · E: The repository 'cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10.4.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20200509-10:26] buster Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a …

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 …

Is there a "recommended way" to disable a service in Debian? (Disable = The service is installed but won't start automatically when the machine boots.) I know that you can update-rc.d -f service r...