Archive for October, 2008

Wikipedia Migrates from Fedora to Ubuntu

Friday, October 10th, 2008

The admins running Wikipedia are almost complete in migrating their servers from a mix of RedHat and Fedora to Ubuntu. The primary reasons behind the switch, according to Brion Vibber (Wikimedia CTO), were personal preference, Ubuntu availability on the desktop and better support/stability compared to Fedora. As a server, one might think that an enterprise […]

Posted in Fedora, Server, Desktop, Opinion, Red Hat, CentOS | 4 Comments »

Network Connections and Applications

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

A fairly common question is: How do I determine which applications are making network connections?
While there are different ways to do this, a quick solution is with netstat. To see which applications are connecting to which network addresses, run the following as root (if you are not root certain output is limited):
# netstat -tuap
This will […]

Posted in Miscellaneous, Tips | Comments Off