On 05/07/2015 06:41 PM, buhorojo wrote:
n 07/05/15 15:12, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 05/07/2015 02:17 AM, buhorojo wrote:
I rebooted Eh? Why the reboot? Surely you only needed to restart CUPS? Hi Did I? Thanks so much for your wise words, but I don't think you understand. I reboot because I know how to. '...only needed to restart CUPS?', is useless. Tell me how to do it then yes, but expressing disbelief when a beginner does something d
Some years ago there was a thread http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-many-mcses-wont-learn-linux/ on ZDnet that was a bit controversial. It does however have a core truth. UNIX and Linux is about learning patterns of how things work, and applying those patterns in new contexts. I could tell you how to restart the CUPs server, give you the command line, but then you'd only know how to restart the CUSp server. Would that be any use to you when it came down to restarting the X11 server? the SAMBA server, the web server? The login server? Perhaps, if you were pattern oriented. But if you were pattern oritned I don't think you'd be asking the question the way you did. There are a few rubrics to finding out who to do things with Linux. They involve looking for and employing patterns The first this RTFM -- Read the 'Fine' manual. There is actually an amazing amount of documentation in the distribution that you get anyways. Its all there under /usr/share. Yes it takes a bit of intelligence to read the man pages; they are in an idiosyncratic and prosaic format, but the most protocols are like that. Yes you may have to follow refernces. This is no different from library work :-0 You _could_ search though what's under /usr/share/man/ using a recursive pattern scanner such as grep, awk, or perl (or ruby or python...). Or you cold trty 'apropos' (look at the man page) with a variety of keywords. You can also google. Everty8ng I've mentioned in this an other threads, everything everyone has told you here, could be found using google. Yes you might have to try a few keywords and phrases and follow a few additional links, but google is a fantastic tool. So there you have the two compoents RTFM Go Google. *B*O*T*H* make use of patterns. Googling for "linux restart services" is the generic 'pattern' sine CUPS is one of the many service daemons that runs in the background on Linux. While "linux restart cups server" is a bit too specific it does mention the 'restart' method that can be applies to just about any service Of course I'd limit the googling to the last year, but this being Linux i wouldn't worry about obsession and making it openSuse or 13.2.
Linux is very much not Windows. "Its a different country, they do things differently there". It's not just about speaking a different language!
You've lost me again. I don't see what relevance windows has to installing a repository:(
Linux is not Windows.The assumptions about how you manage Windows, how services there work, have no relevance what so every to Linux. A few applications, thunderbird, firefox, others, may present the same UI and have a lot of the same functionality (but are not _quite_ identical) but at the sysadmin and system service level their underlying models are radically different. So much of Windows is 'sui generis'. That why there are training courses for people who learnt revision N when they move to revision N-1. I see that applies to the office suite and more as well. I find that amazing. Those of us who grok Linux can sit down at any variant, and some no Linux UNIX variants as well, and administer then. Moving from Linux to AIX or HP/UX may result in a few gotchas because the hardware is so radically different, but a bit of RTFM soon overcomes that. If we just tell you what command to type in, you'll never learn and you'll always be asking 'what command should I type in?' As an additional note I'd mention that Larry Wall once said "There's more than one way to do things". He was talking about perl, but the idiom is quite applicable to Linux in general. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org