Re: [cobalt-users] Useful "How do I...?" resource for Linux newbies

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, This Guy wrote:

> This isn't exactly Raq-specific information, but during my quests to glean 
> knowledge from the Web, I ran across this intro to some of the tools 
> available on Linux systems. It might be a good place to start when your Raq 
> suddenly takes on a mind of its own.
> 
> Perhaps this link could be added to a Raq Faq file.
> 
> http://www.ispworld.com/bw/mar01/Unix_Flavor.htm

hmm, bit trivial, and contains a few errors

eg: 'kill -9 may be required for zombie processes (zombie process are , by
definition, already as dead as they are gonna get, you can kill them all
day and it won't help ;)

He does point out he's using bsd, then says most commands are smilar in
linux, then uses 2 commands that linux doesn't have -/

His advice about looking in log files ahould probably be printed on the
top of all Raq's tho ;)

Why didn't he mention 'man' ? yeash ;0

Personally i still  tend to point people at the NAG and SAG -/

http://www.linuxdoc.org/

(Admittedly there is quite a lot of unrelated stuff in here for someone
just runnung a web server, but it still has lots of basic how-to-do and
what-its-for type docs)

gsh