Please sent your replies to the list, not to me personal, thanks.
Oh, and please configure your MUA to include reply tokens, otherwise
trying to find out who wrote what becomes somewhat tiresome.
Anders Johansson
- /dev notion; block, character, special - notion about security; root & lusers, why so many system users - scripting; (ba)sh, awk, sed, python - textfile editting: vi/emacs/joe/... - notion about processes and memory management as seen with ps or top - some basic network notion: ifconfig/route/ip <snip> I thought this was about teaching people what to expect in a Linux environment, you seem to want to teach them administrator skills right away.
Fair comments, but given what you suggested (see snipped section) a bit odd, since a luser wouldn't have to know about /dev, and talking about vi, sed, awk and emacs would probably be the best way to get them to run away and never look at linux/unix ever again :)
I don't agree. the /dev/ fs is an important property of Linux/Unix, it is imho important that users realize that ordinary files basically behave in the same way as a mounted floppy, a string of zero's, a string of nulls or a tapedrive. Ie, they have stdin and stdout, and can pipe from or to programs. Knowing a thing or two about the /ever present/ standard text processor tools is usefull too, if only to give them a feel for the power of these tools for future uses.
I think the most important thing is to decide who the target audience is, and then tailor the class after what they need to know and be able to do
that would be a logical course. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.2 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.20-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.