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 FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND KALI LINUX 

 1.  FINDING FILES 

 

There are number of unix utility to find files in linux installation. Some of the common ones are Locate, Which and Find. All of these utility does the similar functionality but work and return data differently then one another.

 Locate 

Locate reads one or more databases prepared by updatedb and writes file name matching at least one of the patterns to standard output.

 Which 

Returns the pathnames of the files which would be executed in the current environment, had its arguments been given as commands in a strictly POSIX-confromed shell. It does this by searching the PATH for executable files matching the names of the arguments. It does not follow symbolic links.

 Find 

Find command is more agressive search tool able to recursively search any given path for various files.

 2.  SERVICES IN KALI 

 

There are number of unix utility to find files in linux installation. Some of the common ones are Locate, Which and Find. All of these utility does the similar functionality but work and return data differently then one another.

 SSH 

Checking ssh service status on kali linux

Starting ssh service on kali linux

 Postgresql  

Metasploit uses PostgreSQL as its database so it needs to be launched first. Starting postgresql on kali linux. 

You can verify that PostgreSQL is running by checking the output of ss -ant and making sure that port 5432 is listening.

# ss -ant

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