Jamin Collins wrote:
[snip]
>
> In short, my point is that we should not get to the point of just telling
> everyone with a question that has been answered elsewhere or in a manual to
> RTFM. I feel this is especially the case information is not provide with
> regard to which manual it is they should be reading. Please remember that
> we all started at the bottom at one time or another. I'm fairly sure that
> at some point in each of our experiences with Linux, there has been outside
> assistance in one form or another to help us along. Let's not begrudge that
> help to someone else.
I understand your point (I've been there) but he *did* answer your
question (along with a few other people). The RTFM comment is a minor
jab. Askers of questions also need to remember to use their brains; try
DejaNews, searching through the mailing list archives, or grepping
through the text HOWTOs, or setup HtDig to index all your html docs. I
will also agree that much of the information is distributed across some
not-so-obvious places at times, and a big part of the initial learning
curve is figuring out where to look (as well as losing the old windoze
mind-set). A good selection of books comes in handy; O'Riley has many
good ones. The last part is being willing to "try it and see" as an
instructor friend of mine would tell you. I must have installed Linux a
half dozen times initially (because it was easier than fixing it). I
seldom do that any more, though...
You actually don't have that much to look forward to; once you reach a
sufficient level of guru-dude-dom and have a question, nobody will
answer at all ;-)
> From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Would anyone of you guys please explain why I can't run for example
> >'ifconfig' or 'ntsysv' when I use su in a telnet session? I allways get the
> >'bash: ifconfig: command not found' message. I thought that su would give
> me
> >all the root rights.
>
> The su command, by itself, keeps a majority of the environment of the person
> issuing the su command. The get the complete environment of root, you
> have to do a "su -".
>
> When all else fails, RTFM.
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