Hi all- I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant. I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to rpm -q with rpm-based distributions and any other little tidbits specific to Debian. I'd search the list archives, but that would require that I know what I'm looking for.
One thing that I can't figure out is how to set up a color ls. I copied a custom DIR_COLORS file to /etc, and created an alias for ls with the --color option but some of my files, namely those that are archived, compressed,etc., and image files don't display any color whatsoever. Also, I seem to be having problems setting permissions and ownerships correctly on files so that I can start a ppp connection as a user. I have been able to install my ppp-scripts in other dists and change a few ownerships and permissions and bingo, I can start a dialup session without a problem. Also is there some sort of log file that I can peruse to see all that I have installed on my system? I'm installing via ftp over a 57K modem because the cd-roms I bought from cheapbytes are screwy. Thanks for reading and I'm sure I'll be posting frequently as I acclimate to Debian. Mark
