On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:17:54AM -0500, johnnyfulcrum wrote: > >Hi- > >Been using linux on and off for a couple of years (just playing around), >and recently got a bit more serious and set up an old Pentium as a >webserver to serve up family photos, news, etc etc... > >I'd like to get a bit more basic understanding of the system as I need to >admin it remotely from time to time and although VNC is cool and all, don't >want / need to bring up a GUI interface all the time - for instance: >Yesterday my main user's account had expired - and I needed to get on the >machine from work. Can log in as root via ssh, but had no idea where the >"expire this user on such a such date" setting was... So out comes ssh >forwarding ports all over the place and VNC over ssh to the remote machine >just to bring up KDE, then the user admin gui, yadda yadda yadda... > >What I'm looking for is a cheat sheet of linux commands that are distro >independent for starting/stoping daemons, services, user admin, editing >init levels etc. Does anyone have an "essentials" list they keep in their >back pocket for times when the IU is only a command line? http://en.tldp.org/ The Linux document project is an excellent place to bookmark. You will find the answers to a large number of your answers here. Google is, of course, a great tool for finding answers as well. You can try the url http://google.com/linux to refine your searches to linux related stuff. There are tons and tons of how-to's and guides available on the Internet in various forms. happy hacking. -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030724/44c85996/attachment.pgp