From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsopninehells.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 12:29:29 CDT

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:59:16AM -0700, axax-im.com wrote:
> ...Which leads to my next peripheral question... How could I have
> discovered this by myself? I'm not yet an expert, clearly, but I'm
> struggling in that direction (at least I found the problem), and I've
> made great strides in the past couple of weeks by following the lists &
> devouring all other documentation, and I've scanned several books, but
> from what I know now to a fix like the one suggested is a big jump.
> What's the shortest distance between these two points?

Knowing a few things about scripts and signals helps.

Get the following books, and read them. Read them a lot.

Absolute OpenBSD - Lucas - No Starch Press
Using csh & tcsh - DuBois - O'Reilly
    + the comparable one for your favorite shell, same publisher
      (E.G. Learning the Korn Shell if ksh is your thing)
Unix System Administration Handbook - Nemeth, et al. - Prentice Hall
    a.k.a. The Purple Book

There are other nice books as well, but these are the big ones that
cover most of the important bits.

--
95. My dungeon will have its own qualified medical staff complete with
    bodyguards. That way if a prisoner becomes sick and his cellmate tells the
    guard it's an emergency, the guard will fetch a trauma team instead of
    opening up the cell for a look. --Peter Anspach's Evil Overlord List

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]