On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 08:41 -0500, Joe G wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
Well, Joe was editing the file as you (Mark) asked him to. Joe seems to be really new to linux and may not have properly exited the editor and left a temp file behind or he is still editing the file. Take your pick.
Actually, I came to Linux from MS Windows around 2.5 years ago. I started with Xandros and Knoppix, then played around with a bunch of different distros, but using all as a desktop... not a server. The GUIs have been for the most part adequate for me to do the things I needed to do. I switched to SuSE because there were certain apps that didn't seem to work well in the other distros I tried. I also wanted to explore the wide varietry of Desktop environments / managers that shipped with SuSE. But, I really haven't done much more in the command line other than running the occassional virus scan or rootkit check.... I haven't needed to. But, as you can see, I'll even tackle rewriting the kernel based on some ancient online tutorial. In other words, I'm not afraid to work and learn.
I think this is fantastic that you are trying to tackle the command line use of linux. Just be prepared for a system that does not boot if you start changing files in /etc and you enter something wrong, it happens to the best of us. I made the statement based on your very little knowledge of /etc/fstab and being able to determine if a drive/partition is available. Keep at it though trying to learn as much as you can, it doesn't all come easy and some of it is downright difficult. Anything is easy, once you know how. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998