Re: [PLUG] Beginner's Guide to Linux?

filesystem structure, etc, usr, home.

I second that. It's the first thing I thought of. It seems obvious to most of us, but when you don't know, wtf do "etc" or "var" or even "/usr/local" tell you?
Also not obvious is that a non-root user can typically only alter his or her home directory.

I also think du, df, ln, and find are essential.

-Chuckk

partitioning
logs, logs are your friends...
manpages

Is this geared towards server administration or desktop users? My
beginnings were in a college sys admin course., they may be more
utilitarian then what your looking for.

On 8/15/07, Brent Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
> i'm putting together some documentation and i was wondering if you could
> share with me some things you wish someone taught you about linux when you
> were a fresh n00b.
>
> so far, i have:
>
> the root account (warnings on being root, etc.)
> permissions
> device naming conventions in linux
> navigating the CLI (intro to things like cd, ls, cp, mv, rm(dir), cat, >,
> touch, opening files in nano for editing, etc.)
>
> and after that i'm stuck. any other ideas?
>
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