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    Need to brush up on Linux

    ... and pretty damn sharpish, I don't know why I left it so long to really get to grips with the OS to be honest. I'm looking at understanding the fundamentals through to more advanced areas, particularly scripted automation via SSH and the web in bash (and obvious other languages).

    I need good resources. I'm looking to use either slackware or SuSE, though I don't imagine the distro is particularly relevant.

    Tutorials, advice, tips, cheat sheets. I have so much research underway at the moment I don't have the time to seperate the wheat from the chaff on the intarweb, perhaps you more familiar uses can help.


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    the gentoo docs are pretty good, and everything you neeed to know about the actual os is pretty much on tldp.org. For ease of install you cant beat debian (well you can, but not with still having so much control over everything). Scripting is no different whether you are on a local console ssh or anything, same programs will do the same thing. perl is probably worth learning but i cant really be bothered (got my hands full w/ latex + fortran for the moment)

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    Cheers for that. I'll be using either slackware or SuSE however, not gentoo or debian. I'm comfortable with PERL already. More concerned with bash, EXPECT and derivatives. I wasn't concerned about the functionality of scripts over secure shell, I just want information.


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    a quick glance over the basic at tldp.org will get you moving on what you do / don't know and where you need to bush up on quick. Then you can focus on searching for what you do know.

    while I'd agree that the documentation on the gentoo project is vast, a lot of it has to do with the way gentoo manages things, so I'd take what I read on the gentoo site as information, not a lesson to be learned, unless your using gentoo.

    I can put some of my own resources online specifly around ssh automation, which I've done some righting on, if you give me a couple of areas (after you've looked at the basic stuff on tldp.org perhaps) I can perhaps offer you some more specific linkx.
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    I'd stick with SuSE for the time being, its great for people starting off with Linux, although to be honest if you really want to understand the underlyings of Linux, a meta-distribution like Gentoo or LFS is the only way to do it, no ammount of reading will teach you what you'll learn from experience of building your own system, so after you spent a few days and a few botched install attempts your bash dexterity increeses.. actually Gentoo isn't that bad, portage automates most of the common stuff for you while retaining control over the actual configuration of packages you wish to install.. its certainly a very powerful development platform..
    As for resources, irc.freenode.net has a bunch of channels supporting various projects, you'll get plenty of help there.. read all relivent stuff in tldp.org and man pages, tons of material there, and of course theres always google.
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    I got a good book on bash scripting, though it does get complex waaaay more then i'll ever need to use bash. I'll dig it out later for the name, think it's an o'reilly jobbie.

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    I've gotta get grips to the thing too, I got a new computer with Suse downstairs, going to have a play now

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    Try Unix Power Tools - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...160750-1251821

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