On Wed, 20 May 1998, Bill Day wrote:
> at the school i work at. i told the boss i'd learn a bit about our server
> so we could at least troubleshoot if necessary. ok... i bought a copy of
What happened to the guy that put the server in in the first place? Maybe
he would give you a crash course, or at least some technical notes on what
is installed and how it is configured. Without knowing anything about
Unix you will have a devil of a time trying to figure out what your server
is actually doing.
> linux for dummies and red hat linux unleashed on the confident assumption I
> could "work it out" *hangs head in shame*....oh dear.
You should pick up a book on basic Unix commands. You'll find that Linux
commands are more or less the same as the ones used on other flavors of
Unix as well, although Linux (and Red Hat in particular) is a very mixed
bag of BSD-style and SysV-style commands. Not that this is bad,
necessarily, but keep your Linux books handy while you go through the
examples. :)
Also become familiar with the 'man' command. Man is the on-line
documentation system (short for MANual) and, if you are familiar only with
Windows or Macintosh, you will be amazed at how useful real documentation
can be.
Get used to the differences between the three forms of error messages.
Macintosh: "Uh, like dude, something went wrong."
Windows: "Something went wrong, maybe you should reinstall."
Unix/Linux: "Error #4573. Look it up if you don't know."
But at least you can look it up :)
> I can log on and log off... that's it.
That's a start :)
> Is there a command that allows me to see the contents of the directory
> on our server. That way I could at least nut out what I'm working with.
ls is the command you want. ls -l will give you more information. If
you're familiar with DOS, you'll find that a lot of DOS commands (like
dir, and cd) more or less do the same thing under Linux. Don't forget
however, that Linux uses the / to separate directories while DOS uses \
and that most Linux applications are rather fussy about that. :)
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