Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Package: dnsutils 1:8.1.2-6 Utilities for querying the DNS This package includes the nslookup, dig, and host programs for querying information from the Domain Name System (DNS). It also includes several short aliases (mx, ns, soa, zone, ) for querying specific information. Looks like it's alredy there On Sat, 1 May 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null The Internet must be a medium for it is neither Rare nor Well done! a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]John Galt /a
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
So, its just another name for host? Talk about name polution ;-) On Sun, 2 May 1999, John Galt wrote: Package: dnsutils 1:8.1.2-6 Utilities for querying the DNS This package includes the nslookup, dig, and host programs for querying information from the Domain Name System (DNS). It also includes several short aliases (mx, ns, soa, zone, ) for querying specific information. Looks like it's alredy there On Sat, 1 May 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null The Internet must be a medium for it is neither Rare nor Well done! a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]John Galt /a Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week.
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:26:52PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? $ dpkg -S dnsutils: /usr/man/man1/.1.gz dnsutils: /usr/bin/ ls -al /usr/bin/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Feb 22 22:26 /usr/bin/ - host Possibly amusing, but why does it exist? Bob
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Dale Scheetz wrote: Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~debfind usr/bin/net/dnsutils Appears to look up records in the dns. -- see shy jo
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Cliff Draper wrote: I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've used Running Linux and A Practical Guide to Linux. I think Guide is better. It's by Mark G. Sobell Steve
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
I got a lot out of Running Linux, but I find that the most useful Linux book to me now that I've progressed from newbie to post-newbie, is Linux in a Nutshell. I have a hideous memory for command syntax, especially if I don't use the particular command very much, so Linux in a Nutshell is never far from my desk. Sean Steve Gore wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Cliff Draper wrote: I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've used Running Linux and A Practical Guide to Linux. I think Guide is better. It's by Mark G. Sobell Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Cliff Draper wrote: I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cliff, Linux press has a book that does a lot of what you are asking. It is written by Dale Scheetz, who is a Debian developer. It comes with 4 Debian 2.1 CDs It is much more than just an installation book, it deals with issues that anyone using Linux should be familiar with. The best part: you can down load an electronic copy for free, at www.linuxpress.com. If buy the hard copy, you get 30 days of email support. The price is about $40, but you can get it for about $32 on Cheapbytes web site. I have the 1.3 version. I like it a lot, as it is still useful, though this version is a little dated. Disclaimer: I have no connection with Dale Scheetz nor Linux press other than being a satisfied with this book and the distribution on these CDs. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
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David B.Teague wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Cliff Draper wrote: I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cliff, Linux press has a book that does a lot of what you are asking. It is written by Dale Scheetz, who is a Debian developer. It comes with 4 Debian 2.1 CDs It is much more than just an installation book, it deals with issues that anyone using Linux should be familiar with. The best part: you can down load an electronic copy for free, at www.linuxpress.com. Since the license allows electronic redistribution, it could go into non-free. I wonder why it hasn't been packaged yet. Dale? I'd do it, but it seems silly if the author can but chooses not to. Peter Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: David B.Teague wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Cliff Draper wrote: I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cliff, Linux press has a book that does a lot of what you are asking. It is written by Dale Scheetz, who is a Debian developer. It comes with 4 Debian 2.1 CDs It is much more than just an installation book, it deals with issues that anyone using Linux should be familiar with. The best part: you can down load an electronic copy for free, at www.linuxpress.com. Since the license allows electronic redistribution, it could go into non-free. I wonder why it hasn't been packaged yet. Dale? I'd do it, but it seems silly if the author can but chooses not to. To be honest, it seemed a bit egotistical to me... I would be very happy if someone else packaged it. The whole intention of the license was that the information contained in the book would be freely accessible while protecting the publisher's need to make a profit. As I hold the copyright, I was able to control the license to that degree (yes I could have demanded a totally free license if I didn't have any interest in getting paid, but that's a different problem). I expected that someone would eventually either package it or provide in on another site from www.linuxpress.com, but I was always satisfied that I could point folks to the source of the html. These questions are quite timely, as I just recieved my complimentary copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics, and is over 600 pages packed with general Linux information. This volume focuses on Linux commands of interest to the user and the system administrator. Information useful to developers will be found in volume 2, which I am still trying to finish ;-) Neither of these books are Debian specific, although I verified functionality on a Debian system, and should be useful to anyone using, or interested in, Linux. HTH, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Since the license allows electronic redistribution, it could go into non-free. I wonder why it hasn't been packaged yet. Dale? I'd do it, but it seems silly if the author can but chooses not to. To be honest, it seemed a bit egotistical to me... Not at all. It's valuable info for new users (new to Linux, or new only to Debian). I would be very happy if someone else packaged it. Okay, in that case, I'll put it on my TODO list. Since there not much to do with it, it shouldn't take long at all to package! (I just finished packaging the MH book, but that was a bit more involved: renaming .htm to .html, compressing all the files and changing the URLs everwhere, creating a Perl cgi search engine, etc). I noticed a few HTML errors which I'll correct (turns to bold and never comes back at some point, etc) but I guess I'll leave it as-is in one big file. Maybe add a search engine? But users can already use their browser's FIND function, so that's not a big issue. I'll post an intent to package soon. Peter
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Peter Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the license allows electronic redistribution, it could go into non-free. I wonder why it hasn't been packaged yet. Dale? I'd do it, but it seems silly if the author can but chooses not to. Cheap bytes includes the html version of this book on their debian 2.1 cd set. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Recommendation for best Linux book
I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Cliff Draper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? Excellent books. Very boiled-down and serious books. If you don't want a 1500 page book, go fo OReilly. Running Linux is a good starting point. Linux in a Nutshell is an excelent reference, that includes most Linux commands, covers bash, emacs, vi, system administration and lots of other stuff. -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood... - GsYDE
