The apache stop menu item in Backtrack Linux accomplishes one goal which is to stop the Apache web server. The previous article for apache start would have been enough to explain the basics to anyone using Apache on Backtrack Linux but since my goal is to write an article for every menu item and every tool within Backtrack here is the one for apache stop.
Earlier today I was configuring VSFTPD on a new server. After installing via the yum package manager on a CentOS server and copying the configuration from another server to mimic its behavior I attempted to start VSFTD and it failed with the error noted in detail below. After the error details there is information on what caused the problem followed by how I was able to resolve the issue.
Yesterday a colleague at my company was doing some testing with a potential partner and they needed to open a TCP port on one of our development servers so an application could bind to that port. At first I wasn’t sure how I should do this since the port didn’t need to do anything but listen for incoming connections and the remote application would simply connect to that port. To get something up immediately for them I simply had our web server listen on the requested port which worked however I did not want the web server running on this port for long so I needed to come up with another solution to simply open the port, listen for connections, and possibly log those connections so we could troubleshoot if necessary. I ended up finding an application called tcpsnoop which I explain how to compile and use below.