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[scott]

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.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
>
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Then there is always ksplice for those 99.999% uptime servers.

http://www.ksplice.com/

Scott