getting started

[dashielljt]

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 at 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 at yahoogroups.com too.

Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>