[newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
Hello I found this URL to be useful for beginners who have some knowledge, but need a bit of guidance. http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html The CLI is not something to be feared. cheers Duncan Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 21 March 2005 03:04 am, Duncan Anderson wrote: Hello I found this URL to be useful for beginners who have some knowledge, but need a bit of guidance. http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html The CLI is not something to be feared. cheers Duncan cool; and it's all on

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
The CLI is not something to be feared. cheers Duncan Is that not so ? I read somewhere about a command that could wipe out your whole system if done as root. Something to do with r and rm and -r I think ...

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread SOTL
On Monday 21 March 2005 09:08, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: The CLI is not something to be feared. cheers Duncan Is that not so ? I read somewhere about a command that could wipe out your whole system if done as

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: The CLI is not something to be feared. cheers Duncan Is that not so ? I read somewhere about a command that could wipe out your whole system if done as root. Something to do with r and rm

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
SOTL wrote: I don't know about a comand to wipe a system but I do know a procedure of how I trash a HD. All I did was use MC to search for test and HD went into orbit. It is now a good paperweight on my desk. What I was searching for were DBs I had created call test1, test2 et. What I got was a

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: The CLI is not something to be feared. cheers Duncan Is that not so ? I read somewhere about a command that could wipe out your whole

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread aron smith
On Monday 21 March 2005 07:34 am, Duncan Anderson wrote: SOTL wrote: I don't know about a comand to wipe a system but I do know a procedure of how I trash a HD. All I did was use MC to search for test and HD went into orbit. It is now a good paperweight on my desk. What I was searching for

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: There are some added protections to make doing that even harder now. When you type rm from the command line, you are actualy running rm -i thanks to a handy alias. So you would be asked to confirm every deletion. When you get asked about the first one, hit Ctrl-c, and

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: There are some added protections to make doing that even harder now. When you type rm from the command line, you are actualy running rm -i thanks to a handy alias. So you would be asked to confirm every deletion. When you get asked about the

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
aron smith wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 07:34 am, Duncan Anderson wrote: Frank, When you mention MC, what do you mean? (Midnight Commander?) cheers Duncan MC is a cloneof midnight commander urpmi mc How can something be a clone of itself? :-) Surely you mean mc is a clone of Norton