On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:05:58AM -0500, Larry Holish wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:34:49AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a beginner's > > guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not be one > > particular to Debian. If not, can someone point me in the direction of a > > good generic SysAdmin guide? > > There is a Debian specific one (though not completed) at: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/
wonderful! (wish i'd known about it earlier...) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #83 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : GOT GIBBERISH? And wondering what to do next, to clear the mess? Enter a blank line (making sure you've cleared your command-line buffer, since you're seeing gobbledy-gook) and then enter reset which is a symlink to /usr/bin/tset which is a portion of "ncurses-bin" package. ("apt-get install ncurses-bin") Also see "man tset" for more info. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...