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[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 May 2012 11:45:42 -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:02 PM, scott  wrote:
>>
>>  On 04/30/2012 06:18 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>  On 04/30/2012 05:03 PM, Kevin OGorman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ric Moore  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. Im
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> looking for a
>>>>>>>>> good Linux (C.L.I.) instruction manual -- preferably
>>>>>>>>> one with good
>>>>>>>>> exercises to complete. I ask this because Im tired of
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> being too
>>>>>>>>> dependent upon the G.U.I.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Try to find something here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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 OReilly freebie, "bash Pocket
>>>>>>> Reference" by
>>>>>>> Arnold Robbins. (At least I think it was free--if not, its
>>>>>>> very cheap.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> An excellent command reference is another OReilly book that
>>>>>>> youll have
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to buy--"Linux in a Nutshell--A Desktop Quick Reference" by
>>>>>>> Siever,
>>>>>>> Figgins,
>>>>>>> Love and Robbins. Its been published in successive editions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> since 1997;
>>>>>>> I have the sixth edition of 2009. This is a real paper
>>>>>>> book, 900 pages.
>>>>>>> Its the best 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 theres 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 cant 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/ [4]
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>
>> well but oracle bought them. so it wont work for you unless you use
>>
>> oracle linux or may be few others.
>>  ubuntu is not in that list :-(
>>
>>
>>  What list are you looking at? I found an Ubuntu download link:
> http://www.ksplice.com/**uptrack/download-ubuntu<http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/download-ubuntu>
>
>
I was not specific. I meant for ubuntu servers. After all that is where the
SLA matters.


> Best regards,
> Patrick Asselman
>
>
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