This Is Your Brain On Informatics: Common Pathnames: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 02:29, 19 March 2014

/etc/init.d/[service] [operation]

Services

Operations

/etc/network/interfaces

The hosts.deny file is for blocking IP addresses.

/etc/hosts.deny

The hosts.allow file is for permanently giving access to IP addresses.

/etc/host.allow

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-==/etc/init.d/[service] [operation]==
+===Restarting, reloading, etc. a Service===
+<pre>/etc/init.d/[service] [operation]</pre>
-<p>This "pathname" is actually a script that causes the initiate daemon (that constantly stays in memory) to act on a service that has been input.  After the service, an operation can be input in from one of the following: </p>
+''Services''
+* nginx
+* mysql
+* php5-fpm
+* denyhosts
+''Operations''
 * start
 * stop
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 * force-reload
-<p>For our purposes, the only services that we know that this script can act on are as follows:  </p>
+===Network File===
+<pre>/etc/network/interfaces</pre>
+===Important [[This Is Your Brain On Informatics: DenyHosts|Deny Hosts]] Files===
+The hosts.deny file is for blocking IP addresses.
-* nginx
+<pre>/etc/hosts.deny</pre>
-* mysql
-* php5-fpm
+The hosts.allow file is for permanently giving access to IP addresses.
+<pre>/etc/host.allow</pre>
+{{This Is Your Brain On Informatics}}
-If you get locked out of your server, enter pico /etc/hosts.deny Once you are in that file, delete the IP address (your IP address) that has been blocked at the bottom of the file.
+[[Category:This Is Your Brain On Informatics]]