Re: [cobalt-users] Folder permissions

[claudia <claudia@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You need a command line first, to telnet into your Cobalt appliance and then
you can type 'man <command>'.
However you need to know the specific 'command' name, and if you're unfamilliar
with unix/linux then that might be kind of hard.
There's another, altogether more groovier command, : ) you can use to find out
how to do stuff without knowing the exact name of the command, this helped me
heaps because I know _nothing_ about linux.

Go to the command line and type 'whatis <whateveryouwanttolearnabout>'
alternatively type 'apropos' and that will do the same thing.

It just gives you all the commands that have to do with that particular
keyword, and explains briefly what they do. for a more comprehensive
explanation, you can now go and type man <command> because you know the command
name now!

Don't forget, to get out of a man page on the cobalt, you have to press 'q'
cause it uses a text editor instead of dumping it to screen.

- Claudia

Theodore Jones wrote:

> Dan,
>
> "man" is short for manual... for many of the command line functions in unix
> you can type in "man <whatever>" and see the "man page" for that command.
> They're kind of intimidating at first, but chock full of information on that
> particular command/program.
>
> ~ T
>
> Dan Elkins wrote:
>
> > > man groups...man pages
> >
> > I'm a little new, so what is the man?  I didn't see anything in the cobalt
> > manual.
> >
> > Dan
> >
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