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Hello,

It’s been about 15 years since I’ve enjoyed working in the Unix space, and I
am trying to reintegrate myself. A few things have changed in the intervening years. I’ve installed the first CentOS6 iso without too much difficulty, but I am rusty on commands and such. It appears the install doesn’t install mans so would somebody suggest a way to find and install them. It appears that there are several install package implementations. Which is the best to use? Any other helpful guidance would be greatly appreciated. I’m going with CentOS 6 because I only have a 32 bit machine, otherwise I’d be up on 7, I would think.

Thanks,

Clayton

You can tell the caliber of a man by his gun–c. kirkwood

6 thoughts on - Need Guidance On Getting Started…again

  • Thanks, Mark. Um, how’s about from the commandline or how do I get, I guess we’re still using X11, windows to load.

    Sorry, :<}}} Clayton

  • Top posting is generally discouraged on this list.

    [root@mushroom ~]# yum install man-1.6f* man-pages-3.22-*

    That should get you started.

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  • Clayton,

    And logging in as root for everyday tasks is generally discouraged, as well.

    Most admins will edit their /etc/sudoers file to give themselves sudo access, so they could run

    [username@machinename ~]$ sudo yum install man-1.6f* man-pages-3.22-*

    (which will then prompt for the user’s password, not the root password) instead of logging in as root.

    See http://wiki.CentOS.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot

    Hope that helps!

  • From: Darr247

    I must be a bad admin because I rarely use sudo (only to limit

    some access to some commands to some users).

    That would make me prepand 99% of my daily commands with sudo. After a while, that gets annoying… IMHO, this rule is good for users/workstations, not admins/servers.

    And even on my workstation I have a dedicated root window where I do root stuff.

    JD

  • +1 from another ‘bad-admin’

    I log on at the console with a non-privileged account. But then I immediately go into the X-Windows desktop and open a logon terminal session. There I su
    -l to root and leave it open; tmux’ing over SSH from there to all the other hosts as required.

    I do have that ‘root’ terminal session profiled with a red background. Just to remind me of where I am.