Re: Needed Documentation
"Chris Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a flowchart or something that describes the boot > sequence in detail... haven't found anything like that yet. > > I'm a newbie to Linux, installed my first two systems this past > weekend and have tons to learn. I know the PC inside out and am > comfortable with OS's in general, have witten my share of x86 > assembly and DOS tsr's. > > I have no idea what happens during the kernel bootup, initialization > and the starting of processes. Mainly looking for which process > invokes what, and how and where control is passed around during > system startup. For a general introduction to the topic, you should read the excellent book: "The Linux System Administrators' Guide" by Lars Wirzenius (who is also a Debian developer!) http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/linux/sag/ The book is part of the Linux Documentation Project http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ > Secondly, I'm looking for a breif but complete listing bash and > external commands. The man page for bashis obligatory reading. Its rather long, so i recommend "man -t bash > bash-manual.ps" - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Needed Documentation
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a flowchart or something that describes the boot
> sequence in detail... haven't found anything like that yet.
>
> I'm a newbie to Linux, installed my first two systems this past
> weekend and have tons to learn. I know the PC inside out and am
> comfortable with OS's in general, have witten my share of x86
> assembly and DOS tsr's.
>
> I have no idea what happens during the kernel bootup, initialization
> and the starting of processes. Mainly looking for which process
> invokes what, and how and where control is passed around during
> system startup.
>
Well, the kernel invokes /sbin/init once it's mounted the root partition;
you could start from there, reading the man pages on init and inittab.
Also, once you've read a small bit of that, /etc/init.d/README is _very_
useful in figuring out the Debian way of doing things with regard to
system startup.
>
> Secondly, I'm looking for a breif but complete listing bash and
> external commands.
>
Well, this satisfies both criteria, though it may be a bit briefer than
you want: (assuming you have installed mandb, perl, and netstd, and
assuming that your default shell is bash)
telnet localhost | tee foo.log
logout
Now, edit foo.log with your favorite editor so that all it contains are
those lines with those various possible commands. Then:
(these two lines should all be typed as one big long line)
perl -ne 'while ($a = m/[^\s]+/g) {print "$&\n";}' foo.log |
sort | xargs man -f > commands.log
This is a bit of a summary - I only wish that there were an easier way to
generate the initial list with the telnet...
> Any suggestions pointing me towards specific online docs, faqs,
> howto's or published books would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, and read the bash and bash-builtins man pages too.
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Needed Documentation
Hello, I'm looking for a flowchart or something that describes the boot sequence in detail... haven't found anything like that yet. I'm a newbie to Linux, installed my first two systems this past weekend and have tons to learn. I know the PC inside out and am comfortable with OS's in general, have witten my share of x86 assembly and DOS tsr's. I have no idea what happens during the kernel bootup, initialization and the starting of processes. Mainly looking for which process invokes what, and how and where control is passed around during system startup. Secondly, I'm looking for a breif but complete listing bash and external commands. Any suggestions pointing me towards specific online docs, faqs, howto's or published books would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Chirs * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
