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Unix/Linux Basics

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Recently I've noticed more naive users in the Unix world. I see it both in the newsgroups and in email I get, and it's also apparent in the things folks search for here.

This section of the site is for those folks. It's an expansion of the New To Unix I had already written; this will go into more depth, do more hand-holding and I hope will make Unix/Linux more understandable. See Unix Articles for the complete index of articles. Also, use Search to more easily find whatever it is you need.


Most popular in this category: Using sudo , Basic DNS: PTR records and why you, Using the shell (Terminal) in Mac OS X, GPG/PGP Basics


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TitleAuthor Date Views Monthly  Last comment

Symlinks  Tony Lawrence 2005 10 8926  241 

Ding, dong, the Cron is dead  Anthony Lawrence 2008 01 2313  231 

Operating System Concepts  Tony Lawrence 2003 05 32423  491 2007/09/21 11:48 anonymous

Vi Primer  Tony Lawrence 1997 16556  115 2006/06/07 15:22 arvin

SCO Unix/OSR5 Installation FAQ  Tony Lawrence 2001 01 11722  124 

Adding Memory  Anthony Lawrence 2007 10 4194  322 2008/02/28 15:57 rbailin

Writing and Compiling C programs on  Tony Lawrence 2004 12 9270  197 2005/03/22 16:35 TonyLawrence

Basic Scripting  Tony Lawrence 2001 02 20176  216 

General Trouble Shooting  Tony Lawrence 2000 08 48397  488 2007/02/28 23:20 anonymous

Controlling core files (Linux)  Tony Lawrence 2005 03 43343  985 2008/06/23 16:11 anonymous

Cron At and Batch  Tony Lawrence 2000 01 50378  475 2005/06/09 17:09 TonyLawrence

Understanding Threads  Tony Lawrence 2003 10 7797  127 

Background tasks - Why?  Anthony Lawrence 2007 01 7584  344 

Network Time Protocol  Tony Lawrence 2004 08 6361  124 

Email Basics  Anthony Lawrence 2008 08 2447  815 

Specialty Football Website (place  Tony Lawrence 2003 11 13656  227 

PATH, command  Tony Lawrence 2005 04 2894  67 

Process scheduling  Tony Lawrence 2004 08 7072  138 2006/01/07 09:34 saadia

Understanding RAID  Tony Lawrence 1999 03 27031  233 

Using the shell (Terminal) in Mac OS X Tony Lawrence 2002 12 157973  2224 2008/03/31 18:37 TonyLawrence

Javascript - The Definitive Guide  Anthony Lawrence 2006 09 6516  250 

Why do programmers count from zero?  Tony Lawrence 2003 07 6619  103 

Understanding Web Forms  Tony Lawrence 2003 12 3743  63 

Configuring SCO's GUI  Tony Lawrence 1998 04 17937  141 

Connecting to the Internet  Tony Lawrence 2001 06 23047  258 

SSH  Tony Lawrence 2001 05 32442  360 2007/09/06 15:32 TonyLawrence

The network is always at risk  Tony Lawrence 2005 07 1734  43 2005/07/29 09:43 drag

Random errors in Perl  Anthony Lawrence 2007 12 1111  101 

Network Neighborhood, Visionfs, Samba  Tony Lawrence 2003 05 14054  212 

Basics  Tony Lawrence 2001 01 1296  13 

Analyzing web logs with grep  Anthony Lawrence 2008 01 1798  179 2008/01/18 23:44 BigDumbDinosaur

Network Management Techniques  Sanjay Tailor 2003 11 5581  93 

Understanding Kill  Tony Lawrence 2003 11 2492  41 

GPG/PGP Basics  Tony Lawrence 2001 11 140534  1673 2008/07/07 20:20 JonR

Intrusion Detection Systems  Tony Lawrence 2003 09 5808  93 

But it doesn't use telnet!  Tony Lawrence 2005 09 1536  40 2005/09/16 14:43 BigDumbDinosaur

Basics: rsync  Tony Lawrence 2003 07 42703  667 2008/09/04 21:37 bruceg

Routing Basics  Tony Lawrence 1997 70682  494 

Mac Screen sharing is not just for Macs Anthony Lawrence 2008 01 6938  693 2008/05/30 03:40 Paul

Networks 101  Tony Lawrence 1998 03 34788  271 

Understanding Dumb Terminals  Tony Lawrence 1998 12 30392  255 2005/04/18 14:18 richlove

RSS Syndication Feeds and Why Do I Care? Tony Lawrence 2003 08 13421  213 2007/05/17 15:35 rbailin

Understanding Microsummaries  Anthony Lawrence 2006 10 2632  105 

UNIX Basics-JOB SCHEDULING  Steggy 2004 05 70782  1310 2008/11/03 14:09 BigDumbDinosaur

How and where to start writing first  Rakesh Awasthi 2004 08 11491  225 

Some common email problems  Anthony Lawrence 2006 12 3624  157 2006/12/09 05:58 BigDumbDinosaur

Understanding SCSI  Tony Lawrence 1999 03 23403  201 

Controlling Firefox Headers and Footers  Anthony Lawrence 2007 12 1896  172 2007/12/13 15:30 TonyLawrence

Continuation Lines  Anthony Lawrence 2006 06 6277  216 2006/06/21 14:33 BigDumbDInosaur

Why use that primitive Vi?  Anthony Lawrence 2008 05 2327  387 2008/09/26 21:09 TonyLawrence



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VoIP Basics  Ruchi Gupta 2006 04 8090  260 2006/04/20 04:50 BigDumbDInosaur

Random Numbers  Tony Lawrence 2003 09 37570  605 2008/01/23 12:25 TonyLawrence

taskset for CPU affinity  Tony Lawrence 2005 10 9427  254 

Linux|Unix pinfo  Anthony Lawrence 2006 07 3483  124 

What is a Managed Switch?  Tony Lawrence 2005 08 24068  617 

Basic DNS: PTR records and why you Tony Lawrence 2004 07 132841  2554 2008/10/09 11:47 TonyLawrence

Caches  Tony Lawrence 2003 09 6885  111 

What is a router?  BigDumbDinosaur 2005 09 4977  130 2005/09/25 01:23 KimPetersen

Floppy Disks  Tony Lawrence 2001 01 38323  407 2006/01/24 15:06 anonymous

How can i mount a ISO Image CD Tony Lawrence 2004 07 20168  387 2005/05/09 02:42 Brian

Posting to Usenet Groups  Anthony Lawrence 2006 11 4179  174 

Understanding Serial Wiring  Tony Lawrence 1992 22045  108 2008/10/31 22:01 BigDumbDinosaur

Understanding Microformats  Anthony Lawrence 2006 10 2135  85 2006/10/30 18:53 TonyLawrence

Using Tapes and tape drives  Tony Lawrence 1998 09 35050  287 

Fallure to resolve  Anthony Lawrence 2006 04 7884  254 

Zoom in  Anthony Lawrence 2008 09 1121  560 

How do you do X in Unix  Anthony Lawrence 2008 03 1919  239 2008/03/17 09:54 TonyLawrence

Hardening your perimeter  Michael Desrosiers 2006 11 2919  121 

Software Mirroring on RedHat 8.0  Tony Lawrence 2002 11 38243  531 

Data Security: Backups are the Key  Bob Mahood 2003 10 2458  40 

Understanding Packed BCD  Tony Lawrence 2003 09 16361  263 

Why is my system slow?  Tony Lawrence 2001 12 53811  648 

Why are in-addr.arpa addresses  Tony Lawrence 2004 12 1659  35 2005/02/25 15:11 anonymous

Unix Permissions  Tony Lawrence 2001 04 54737  601 2006/10/17 13:38 TonyLawrence

But I'm not a programmer!  Anthony Lawrence 2007 12 1301  118 



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Understanding PAM  Tony Lawrence 2005 03 51276  1165 2008/04/09 12:57 Damien

How and where to start writing first UNIX Rakesh Awasthi 2004 08 11162  218 2005/02/25 23:06 TonyLawrence

Global Positioning System (GPS)  Sanjay Tailor 2003 10 5674  93 

Adding a Hard Drive to Linux  Dirk Hart 2001 02 89521  962 2005/09/12 01:08 Phil

Using exclude with du  Tony Lawrence 2004 06 3626  68 

Loglevel (configuring syslog)  Tony Lawrence 2005 04 3354  78 

Hard Disks  Tony Lawrence 2001 02 19976  214 2005/07/26 23:18 anonymous

Using sh -c with find  Anthony Lawrence 2007 01 9410  427 

Using sudo  Tony Lawrence 2002 02 257866  3183 2008/07/05 14:14 MohamedMansour

Sendmail  Tony Lawrence 2002 04 10665  135 

IBM: Linux Desktop Migration  Bruce Garlock 2004 12 3011  64 

Mac OS X Invisible and Locked Files  Anthony Lawrence 2008 03 1711  213 

Perl Reporting  Anthony Lawrence 2008 03 1523  190 

VPN's and other remote access  Tony Lawrence 2001 04 51812  569 2008/02/14 12:33 Anonymousvpn

Understanding Device files  Tony Lawrence 1998 12641  96 2007/11/14 09:27 anonymous

I don't know Unix  Tony Lawrence 2004 08 5514  108 

loadkeys, dumpkeys  Tony Lawrence 2005 05 3609  85 

OSR5 Boot Up Messages  Tony Lawrence 1998 15998  122 

Numeric Unix Error Messages  Tony Lawrence 2001 12 55404  667 2008/04/15 18:12 anonymous

grep in depth  Anthony Lawrence 2006 02 5240  158 

Understanding Floating Point Formats  Tony Lawrence 2003 09 30806  496 2005/02/19 17:55 anonymous

Bash typecasting  Anthony Lawrence 2006 08 5222  193 2006/08/01 12:58 TonyLawrence

Understanding Termcap and Terminfo  Tony Lawrence 1999 07 20736  185 

Understanding Virtual Domains  Tony Lawrence 2003 07 9483  148 

Tightvnc, Chicken of the VNC  Tony Lawrence 2003 10 89191  1462 2007/06/04 17:48 anonymous




Using the Korn Shell  Tony Lawrence 1997 42671  298 2005/03/19 19:19 TonyLawrence

What is mount?  Anthony Lawrence 2006 07 5071  181 

Bash Brace Expansion  Anthony Lawrence 2008 04 1381  197 2008/04/22 13:05 BigDumbDinosaur

Xinetd  Tony Lawrence 2003 07 25884  404 

Recursive chown  Anthony Lawrence 2006 03 17054  532 

Cables and switches basics  Anthony Lawrence 2008 04 1216  173 

Undoing bad archives  Tony Lawrence 2005 10 4460  120 

How can i mount a ISO Image CD Tony Lawrence 2004 07 68641  1320 2007/09/06 18:02 TonyLawrence

XML  Tony Lawrence 2003 10 5858  96 


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