Linux Services Management Flashcards
What is the basic syntax for managing services?
service SERVICENAME start|stop|restart
What a two primary ways servers run service programs?
As a background process, running and listening at all times.
As a process spawned by a parent program that listens.
What are 3 popular Linux based web servers?
Apache
nginX
lighthttpd
What are 3 popular Linux based database servers?
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Name three MTAs
Mail Transfer Agents;
sendmail
Postfix
Exit
Name two common MDAs
Binmail
Procmail
What is NFS?
Network File System; with NFS a system can share a portion of its virtual directory on the network.
Popular software package is nfs-utils.
What is the standard print sharing software package?
Common Unix Printing System - CUPS and it uses IPP.
What are 3 popular DHCP packages
dhclient, dhcpcd and pump.
dhclient is favoured by most DEB and RH distros.
What is the LAMP platform
Popular for its focus on speed
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP language
Can be found on many servers around the world
How do clients know how to contact a certain server program?
Server applications listed on specific well-known ports: eg 80 for http.
What’s the difference between relational and NoSQL DBs
Relational DBs store records in individual data tables.
NoSQL stores values in documents and each doc’ is independent of all the others in the DB
