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10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 10 of 10 - vi
Because Linux is based almost exclusively on configurations stored in text files, the ability to edit them without the knowledge of the potential impact can be quite dangerous. There was a time where a stray ':' in a host database file could bring an...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 9 of 10 - rpm
Let's take a moment to recap what you've learned. You now know about the boot process, run levels, and how to turn services on and off. You know how to look at processes, and find stuff on the system. You know how to make Linux talk to Windows, how t...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 8 of 10 - chkconfig
Probably the biggest difference among the various Linuxes out there is the manner in which they handle a system boot. Each performs this operation differently. The one thing that is consistent across each is the presence and purpose of the init proce...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 7 of 10 - init
You may have heard the rumor that Linux machines are so stable that they don't even need a reboot command. And you might have believed it. After all, how could such an archaic OS with a clumsy interface be so pervasive if it didn't have something goi...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 6 of 10 - dmesg and syslog
One of the most common tools you probably use for problem analysis is the Windows Event Logger. It can be a pretty useful graphical tool, but the Linux world was built around the command-line so it instead gets the text-based dmesg. dmesg displays th...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 5 of 10 - top
You've probably used Task Manager or pslist -s from the Sysinternals' PStools, You'll find the Linux top command to be quite similar. top shows information about the processes running on the system about and the system itself, but in a streaming mann...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 4 of 10 - find
Even the most seasoned of systems administrators, Windows and Linux alike, need to sift through piles of files looking for a text string we're sure is there somewhere. We just can't remember where it is. We might even be hunting for something we've n...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 3 of 10 - smbclient
Samba is a suite of commands that Linux uses to interface with Windows servers. It gives Linux the ability to act as a Windows file server or even domain controller, and allows it to access Windows shares. As a Windows veteran on a Linux box, you'll ...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 2 of 10 - the shell (tcsh, bash, ... )
Early on, the original legendary Linux programmers built themselves a program called a "shell". The shell interprets any command you type, and generally tries to make things easier for you. In Windows, cmd.exe is a shell as well as explorer.exe. A sh...
10 Linux Commands Every Windows Admin Should Know - Part 1 of 10 - man
So you, a Windows veteran, find yourself staring at a text window that says only ">". For some reason, you've gone through the trouble of getting yourself an account on a Linux box. You're probably getting to it remotely, via Windows telnet, or more ...
