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Sven Vermeulen Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 1345 Location: Mechelen, Belgium
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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I've been pondering about an administration guide, but I feel that it is a job which needs at least 5 or 6 contributors from different fields. I can contribute a lot to system management, performance tuning as far as system components is concerned (like I/O), storage management (lvm, file system tuning) and memory management (kernel), but I have very little experience with monitoring or various server components (like Samba, NFS, ...) apart from the pure basics. I once started a similar aspect using DITA (IBM's Darwin Information Typing Architecture) just to get a feeling about DITA, but found the support for the language too limited (little community coverage). _________________ Please add "[solved]" to the initial topic title when it is solved. |
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Sven Vermeulen Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 1345 Location: Mechelen, Belgium
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Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Version 1.3 of Linux Sea (PDF) has been published.
Changes: added information on file system labels and UUIDs as well as how to use them in fstab (and why they don't work for the kernel's root=... setting out-of-the-box). _________________ Please add "[solved]" to the initial topic title when it is solved. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:36 am Post subject: |
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Pretty nice stuff
I'm gonna try the label stuff for sure one day |
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bodhi.zazen n00b
Joined: 17 Feb 2011 Posts: 1
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice guide, thank you for writing it up, maintaining / updating it, and making it freely available.
Chapter 7 is (IMO) most helpful and your examples are clear and concise, perfect for the "new user" wanting to compile a custom kernel. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, about the compilation of the current, I use for a while this command :
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# time make && make modules_install && make install
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So, there's no need to cp manually the bzimage. |
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krinn Watchman
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't remember that one |
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patrix_neo Guru
Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 520 Location: The Maldives
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm...this will come in handy. Thanks a lot (for the effort)! |
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Sven Vermeulen Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 1345 Location: Mechelen, Belgium
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the heads up.
No, I haven't forgotten about the "make install" one, I'm going to add this in later (it's now mentioned in the TODO file) as I can now test everything in virtual systems (yay for KVM)!
Furthermore, the document has had a quick update on openrc/baselayout, but I'm sure I've forgotten a few references here and there (just got it working here, openrc did just fine, but SELinux failed on it). _________________ Please add "[solved]" to the initial topic title when it is solved. |
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IRQsRFun Apprentice
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 195 Location: Somewhere between .3 and .7 Vdd
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:52 am Post subject: |
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Hooray !!
I have not spent much time with this, but there is a definite need for more current documentation and standard practices. I hope to make time to read this in detail.
Depending on your focus, I want to mention adding the apropos command in the man page section. I was a user for a long time before I stumbled on this command in some other intro manual. It does have its some use when one does not know the exact command to use. One example, (not a very god one) is "apropos dhcp" |
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Sven Vermeulen Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 1345 Location: Mechelen, Belgium
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Good idea. I'll add it to the man page section. Note that "apropos" is similar (if not the same) for "man -k". _________________ Please add "[solved]" to the initial topic title when it is solved. |
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swathe n00b
Joined: 04 Jul 2011 Posts: 73
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Wow very nice. Hopefully will get to print this out at work and give it a good read. Well done! |
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Killerchronic Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 91 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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Good stuff, i've had a quick skim through and seems it would be a great place to start for a linux "noob" and also has some good stuff for us long time users aswell. |
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Ormaaj Guru
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nomilieu n00b
Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 24
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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There seems to be a typo in Chapter 6, under Priority and Niceness.
Quote: | The value, in the range of -20 to 10, informs the Linux kernel about how nice the program should be towards the rest of the system. |
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