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| dearsanjay 2003-11-06, 8:00 am |
| Hello Folks ...
Before star discussing the subject of this new thread "LETS LINUX.. " i must introduce myself to you all.I 'm Sanjay and member since 2001. But since i was involved with a project of deployment of RedHat 8 /kernel 2.4.18-14 , was really unable to participate.Now as this project is over .. i think i can buy a little time for us here at Examnotes.net .
Lets share the very first level thoughts aroung this Linux/Unix world as we interact at our day to day works.This is important because from my way of looking Linux is not just another OS or something --rather is an idea .. a new platform .. a roadway towards freedom from Candy-Chocolate product range offered by microsoft. And not to mention it has not only levelled that target but is enriching this community in a millions of ways .. with creative ideas ..
 SO LETS SHARE THEM ALL ... | |
| prezbedard 2003-11-06, 10:41 am |
| All that in just over 10 years as well. | |
| dearsanjay 2003-11-07, 1:58 am |
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All that in just over 10 years as well.
Hi again..
I must tell you ya .. it doesn't matter if we try to be so optimistic about the resistence offering this support .. It only matters the attitude we wear on .. towards exchanging the valuable information.. | |
| dearsanjay 2003-11-08, 7:53 am |
| Hi all,
the "man" facility is quintessentially Unix approach to online help.superficially minimalist, often obscure, but mostly complete once we know the way around it.
And here comes "man -k " at work.This command and its alias command (apropos) uses a data file listing all available manual pages) useually /usr/bin/whatis or /user/share/man/whatis)
The file often initially must be created and need to be updated by time to time.
Here what it comes when we use Linux :
Although it dependes upon distribution But the mostly they provide an initial whatis file and useually include (/usr/lib/makewhatis or /usr/sbin/makewhatis ) utility for updating and recreating it. Sometimes however we have to hunt for a version if not combined.
Try them if they are with your distro:
COMMAND LINE :
from # prompt:
/usr/share/makewhatis -v -w /usr/share/man
[here we could run this at background removing -v &running background job bcos it will take some time to complete]
we can add -c option for adding catpath -w for man path; defaults are as below;;
Man= /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man: etc
Catpath= /var/cache/man:/usr/share/man/preformat etc
Then must we update the existing databaseas below:
/usr/sbin/makewhatis -u
Don't forget to with experiment them .. | |
| karthikeyanra 2003-11-08, 10:48 am |
| Hi,
I am intersted in learning RH Linux OS(networking/sysadmin). It would be helpful, if you can recommend a good book for the same.
I am planning to sit for the Comptia Linux + exams at the end of december. How tough is the exams ? Whats the exam fee in Indian Currency ? | |
| prezbedard 2003-11-08, 7:35 pm |
| The Linux+ exam would be about 9,375.06 INR. I know you can buy vouchers here in the US not sure about India though. | |
| Boulware5 2003-11-08, 7:59 pm |
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How tough is the exams ?
Well if by "exams" you mean more than one, you are mistaken - you only have to take and pass one multiple choice test. It is very easy if you know your stuff. | |
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| Nice vouchers.. Is there any catch?
I am trying to get into Linux+ certification as my first step, then may decide to go for RHCE or RHCT later on..
I am still having some problems though in my Red Hat 9 system.. I installed it fine, worked fine.. but it just all of a sudden console didn't repond at all while the screen saver was running.. had to turn off the PC. Since then and I am getting an error
"Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel" ..
I have no idea what this means or how to solve it..
Any help here? | |
| prezbedard 2003-11-09, 3:12 am |
| Do you mean the screen saver locked up? | |
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| yes.. what I should have done is may be logged in remotely from another workstation and killed the process or something.. I didn't try that unfortunately! And instead I just recycled the PC power..
Doesn't start since then.. the mentioned error gets displayed and I get "Scroll Lock" and "Caps Lock" LEDs flashing. | |
| prezbedard 2003-11-09, 3:43 am |
| I had that happen before. I researched and found similar instances but couldn't login remotely since I didn't have ssh setup at the time.Also tried a couple other ideas that didn't require remote login but to no avail so I just hit reset. But haven't had any problems since. I now have the screen saver disabled. | |
| dearsanjay 2003-11-10, 6:05 am |
| Hi ..
The problem my fellow friend has just experienced is a very common problem and occurs when someone tries to run screensaver as root user.Useually a rootuser shouldnot run the screensaver because of display problem assigning previlidge to screen 0:0 which is tty7 .
At a case like this we should boot the system at rescue mode useing the Boot CD and log in as root.And reload the display component mean the Xwindows at severe case.
We can obiously check the /var/log/messages to see exactly what happened that moment.That will give us a better look on the happenings and ways to repair the system at normal state.
As from your error approaches(Kernel panic: no init process ...) it seems the system initialising start up process .. may be the mgetty had got corrupted.No way to suggest any reccue at dark.Just log in the systema at rescue mode by booting from the CD and see what messages there at the system log files ...
Don't forget to add a little bit of reasoning ..on the apporach..
for the time .. bye.. | |
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| dearsanjay,
I never login as root on a unix box unless I really have to. I use "su -" instead (and also if I need to do that).
I don't think it is that problem you ared referring to. I tried to rescue the pc already to no avail.
What I did in order to solve the problem. Unfortunately reinstalled linux and disabled the screen saver. | |
| dearsanjay 2003-11-11, 6:26 am |
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I never login as root on a unix box unless I really have to. I use "su -" instead (and also if I need to do that).
Good Luck mosam ,
for the rest lifespan of this installation.Still you must check "/var/log/messages " to identify the potiential problem which may come to action after some time may be in another event if there is some problem really.
This way you may find some other useful information too . . |
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