From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp3.america.net ([199.170.121.53]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18G6zg-000799-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:20:57 -0500 Received: from dhcp1-69.stmarys.gmpexpress.net (dashielljt@dhcp1-69.stmarys.gmpexpress.net [63.147.51.69]) by smtp3.america.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAP0IGl11856 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:18:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:20:52 -0500 (EST) From: dashielljt To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: re: getting started Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: A tip for anyone starting up with Linux. Plan for backups and either find a useable backup utility for your distribution and download and install it and study it or write your own shell script to do the job. If you can learn how to use it for both backup and restores you'll have learned one of the system administrator's basic tasks. Yes that's right, if you install Linux on a machine and yourself are root, you're a system administrator. Allbeit a very new one at first. For anyone interested in discussing sys-admin type topics, you can send email to majordomo@vger.kernel.org with subscribe linux-admin in body of message. You'll be sent back a confirmation request along with an authorization code you need to use to start your subscription. There's also linux-newbie on the same server. For the slackware beginners, you've got linux-slackware-subscribe@yahoogroups.com too. Jude