A web application Scanner

Nikto is a web server assessment tool. It is designed to find various default and insecure files, configurations and programs on any type of web server.

URL : http://cirt.net/nikto2

Top 10 Web application scanner are available at
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How to restart Network service in linux ?

Use following commands to restart network service

Ubuntu, debien
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

CentOS, Redhat, Fedora
service network restart

Installing X server ubuntu server

commands to install X server on ubuntu server

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install gdm
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

How to check Linux Kernel is 32bit or 64bit?

To check running Linux kernel is 32 bit or 64 bit from command line run the following:

$ getconf LONG_BIT

This command will display 32 or 64 depends on kernel

In GNU/Linux we need to know about OS Kernel bit mode (32 or 64) before downloading/installing new software.


if you want to know processor info from remote terminal use following command

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo