While writing the third edition of my book, "Linux Pocket Guide" (O'Reilly), which focuses on Linux commands that are the most useful to know, I am considering dropping some topics that were in the previous edition. I welcome any opinions on whether the following commands are still widely useful enough to keep in the book.
1. dump and restore I grew up with these commands, but personally haven't used them in well over a decade. What do you think? 2. finger and chfn Likewise. Does anybody make use of finger information anymore, whether on a single host or multiple? 3. telnet I'm planning to mention telnet only for its utility in hitting arbitrary ports (telnet myhost 80), and to drop all discussion of remote logins with telnet, since it's largely been replaced by ssh. (And maybe have a footnote about kerberized telnet being OK for logins.) Agree/disagree? 4. dnsdomainname, nisdomainname, ypdomainname These are just links to /bin/hostname for convenience and I never run them. Do you? 5. write and talk More commands I grew up with, but I suspect these have been completely obsoleted by instant messaging. (Though I always liked "banner wake up | write joe". :-)) Any reason to keep them? 6. Usenet The 2nd edition still covered slrn, but personally haven't run a newsreader in years. Thanks for any insights & opinions! -- Dan Barrett [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
