Yes, groups like this really are your best bet for learning things... If you consider yourself a beginner, don't be afraid to read the man pages either... That's how I tought myself Unix ( way back when Bell Labs owned it ;-)
Seriously... just pick a list of the more common commands... "ls, more, less, ps, find, grep", etc... and read the man pages..once you've mastered that small list, the rest come easy.. As for having to reload when you screw up... Do backups... learn to use tar and/or dump/restore. Set up your system up to use seperate filesystem for '/', '/usr', '/boot', etc.. and back those file systems up into files on /home or /data or /backups, etc ( or a tape drive if you have one).... and there's nothing wrong with having alternate roots and boots... so if you do miss something up, it becomes trivial to 'recover'. I try to regularly copy my filesystem backups to CDs. If you keep your file systems seperate.. / and /usr should easily fit onto a CD... Also, I have a collection of files that are very dear to me... files that I would not want to lose.. Financial records, source code directories, etc... these get tar'd up, gpg encrypted, and scp'd off to friends computers via the net on a regular basis.. This way, if Nevada were to fall off the map, I could still recover this data. i.e. I'm doing 'offsite' backups. Nothing like having your valuable files backed up to 3 different continents to make you feel secure. Oh yeah, I almost forgot.. learn cron as well.. nothing like having your backups done automatically in the middle of the night. And finally... if you don't already know perl... it's time to learn it.. ( yes, I know, this is not linux specific ). There's just so much you can do with perl that it seems hard to administer a system without perl. - jim On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:20:14 -0700 "Gary L. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark C. Ballew wrote: > > >Gary, > > > >Honestly, every Linux book I've gotten has been a limited resource. > > > I agree. Even the books I mentioned for Win aren't all that great by > themselves. I guess I intend to take the answers I get here and build a > library of this stuff. > > > I'm > >not sure what kind of configs you are doing, but google and tldp.org are > >your friends. > > > Thanks! I've used google a lot for all kinds of lookups. Google and > alltheweb are the two I like best. I will give tldp.org a try. Besides > trying to figure out things like the host file, I get stumped by > installs that don't create lins, or adding plug-ins to mozilla that > don't show up in the bloody list and don't work. With that one I've > surmised that the plug-ins are just installing into a directory that was > intended for Netscape, and that I need to move the proper files into an > equivalent mozilla directory, but I haven't figured it all out yet. > > > > >And then there is always the rlug list! Shoot us some questions. > > > No question, this is an awesome group! > > > > >Mark > > > >_______________________________________________ > >RLUG mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > > > > Thanks, Mark! > > -Gary > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
