Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-10 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
s. keeling wrote: Per olof Ljungmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Where except on the local machine can I find Debian man pages? http://manpages.debian.net/ is not very informative I'm afraid... FWIW, I've always considered a *nix box which doesn't have manpages installed,

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Wayne Topa wrote: <> It would have been better if I had not had a type there. :-( No problem, I had one too - Welcome to the Debian Community. Thank you. I'm sure it will work out well, especially considering all the helpful hands that are here! Per olof -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
John K Masters wrote: On 22:49 Thu 09 Aug , Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: bash: apr-cache: command not found ^^^ Typo - should be apt-cache. Probably worth reading up on Debian basics, maybe run &quo

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Wayne Topa wrote: Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Jeff D wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. Coming from BSD

newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. Coming from BSD where a lot of things are in .conf files under /etc I have a pro