Thank you. We have a large O'Reilly section at our local Hastings book store and I have visited O'Reilly's Website, but i really like to leaf trough a book before I purchase it. Therefore, tomorrow morning I plan to make a trip to Hasting and examine their stock. More importantly though, I will visit the link to your lecture content. I greatly appreciate you sharing it with me. I hope the hell pts/0 is not a telnet session, because this is a standalone workstation we are referring to and I do not use telnet. I don't want to get paranoid, but if the telnet part is true ... I wonder if I am getting back doored. Max On Thursday 05 September 2002 06:08 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
MAx, I teach a Unix course at Northeastern University. The book we use sucks, so I don't recommend it. But, there are many other good Unix books. O'Reilly books tend to be very good. http://www.oreilly.com/. Some of their books are available online. Running Linux was written partially by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, and Lar Kaufman is about 2 years old, but a pretty decent text. Matt was the guy who started the Linux documentation project, and Lar is a member of the Boston Linux and Unix user group that I am one of the leaders.
BTW: pts/0 is a pseudo terminal. Every telnet and xterm session gets a pseudo terminal. pts/0, pts/1 etc. I'll respond to the SuSE list on this if noone else beats me to it.
All of my classroom lectures have been put online. Here is the URL for the intensive version of the course: http://www.blu.org/~gaf/mis4323/
On 5 Sep 2002 at 2:28, by way of - wrote:
I attend a small community college in a rural portion of the southwestern U.S. Very few people here even know what Linux is, and most of the people, at my small college in the CIS department, venerate Bill Gates as some sort of diety. Often Unix/Linux, JAVA, C programming courses get cancelled due to lack of enrollment in those courses, that is based on the misconceptions and ignorance of some lazy, department heads, instructors and many potential students that think everything in applied computing must somehow revolve around windows ... and that "windows is the standard for everything" I and about two other people here know differently. Anyway, I need some help.
I am new to UNIX/linux and need some help and advice. I am studying "guide to UNIX using linux" pub Thomson Learning, and have learned a few but essential UNIX commands. For example I know the who command, but do not understand all of its descriptors, especially some of the acronyms. For example, (on my local machine) in the output of max@linux:~> who -H
USER LINE LOGIN-TIME FROM max :0 Sep 4 21:19 (console) max pts/0 Sep 4 21:19 max pts/1 Sep 4 22:51 max@linux:~>
I understand everything but the column "LINE". I know that its the line to a session, but what do the acronyms pts/0 , pts/1 stand for? and I think :0 means my screen? and what does (console) mean?
I have searched my text for this info, my SuSE manual, used the SuSE help center, and searched online. So I ask here as a last resort. I want to learn.
Also, could anyone recommend some good (in print) UNIX/Linux dictionaries that also contain acronyms like pts (etc) and good definitions. Also, what are some good reference books on Linux/UNIX? or online forums for UNIX/LINUX novices to gain knowledge from?
I really want and need to learn, and not just be a GUI moron.
THANKS
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