Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Troubleshooting and Tricks to
Improve Your Server
You can have the best book in your hands, but experimentation will always remain
the best way to learn. It is even more true that, even after following the instructions
provided in this topic, you might experience some problems. Therefore, as nothing is
written in stone, here you will find some topics to help you resolve different cases that
can happen. From tricks to ease your life to troubleshooting steps, I have grouped the
useful tools that you can implement daily.
In this chapter, we will cover the following situations:
• How to ease your life with the command line?
• When you need to retrieve open ports
Ease your life with the command line
At the beginning, the command line can be confusing. Even though the instructions in
the chapters of this topic have been written for you to install in the easiest way, there's
no reason to spend more time than necessary with this command line. Therefore, it's
always helpful to have some tools and customizations on your system. In the long run,
you will see that you will not be able to do without them.
Package management
Throughout the chapters in this topic, the Linux distribution package tools are never
mentioned. Indeed, you will always have commands as follows:
install apackage
