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[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:02 PM, scott <redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> On 04/30/2012 06:18 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>> On 04/30/2012 05:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 04/30/2012 04:14 PM, Doug wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/30/2012 03:45 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bahn, Nathan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please accept this apology for being too vague. I'm looking for a
>>>>>>> good Linux (C.L.I.) instruction manual -- preferably one with good
>>>>>>> exercises to complete. I ask this because I'm tired of being too
>>>>>>> dependent upon the G.U.I.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try to find something here:
>>>>>> <http://www.tldp.org/guides.**html <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>>
>>>>>> <http://www.gnu.org/manual/**manual.html<http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nils
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  There are some bash programming texts on the 'Net. One humongous
>>>>> one is "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" by Mendel Cooper (About 700
>>>>> pages
>>>>> altogether!) and there is an O'Reilly freebie, "bash Pocket Reference"
>>>>> by
>>>>> Arnold Robbins. (At least I think it was free--if not, it's very
>>>>> cheap.)
>>>>>
>>>>> An excellent command reference is another O'Reilly book that you'll
>>>>> have
>>>>> to buy--"Linux in a Nutshell--A Desktop Quick Reference" by Siever,
>>>>> Figgins,
>>>>> Love and Robbins. It's been published in successive editions since
>>>>> 1997;
>>>>> I have the sixth edition of 2009. This is a real paper book, 900 pages.
>>>>> It's the best $50 I ever spent on Linux! I use it at least once a week.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you could find an old RedHat or SuSE Linux manual (or pair) from
>>>>> around
>>>>> 2000 or earlier, before everything got GUI-fied, there was some useful
>>>>> stuff there
>>>>> that is not so easy to locate anymore. If there's a nearby Linux club,
>>>>> somebody
>>>>> may have one they might give you. I seem to have lost mine.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Heh, after they squashed system-v, half of what is in those old RedHat
>>>> manuals is deader than a doornail. I miss the old days. I had 20 users
>>>> telneted into our MUD on a 486 with 32 megs of memory, no sweat. You
>>>> were a
>>>> weenie if you actually rebooted. I reboot more frequently now that I did
>>>> with Win3.1  :) Ric
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why?  I reboot the desktop for kernel updates primarily.  My laptop
>>> dual-boots, so you can't blame the system(s) for the frequency on that
>>> machine.
>>>
>>
>> Back in the day, you could just init 1 then init 5 and save having to do
>> the reboot. Remember?? heh, then you could proudly post your uptime in
>> months, or in a few cases years, instead of days. Ric
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Then there is always ksplice for those 99.999% uptime servers.
>
> http://www.ksplice.com/
>
> Scott
>
>
well but oracle bought them. so it won't work for you unless you use oracle
linux or may be few others.
ubuntu is not in that list :-(


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