Monitoring System Processes

Well, I would say that if you don’t already plan to do so, some GREAT
utilities to feature would be:

ps
top
grep
find
locate
whereis

I know that each one of these has pretty fundamentally altered the way I
use Linux when I learned them.

- Derek

Creating Directories

Just wanted to also point out that a dot or a slash should be needed in making a directory within a directory.

e.g. - yours= mkdir ./downloads
another way= mkdir downloads

and say you are in /home/blah/thisfile/thatfile and you want to copy somthing from that dir to a new dir in /home/blah, and you don’t want to cd all the way back you can do “mkdir ../../newdir” and then “cp thisfile ../../newdir” or “cp thisfile ~/newfile”

- Matt Lindner

That command would create a directory called “downloads” but in the root directory. If you were in “/home/tony/downloads” and typed “mkdir downloads” (sans forward slash) then you’d have created “/home/tony/downloads/downloads” and not “/home/tony/downloads/slackware”.

Too much tryptophan, old chap. :-)

- Alex Morris

Colorizing Directories

in DIY, you might want to mention the –color (I think) option of ls.

- Ian Melnick

chown 644 ./DIR_COLORS should be chmod 644
./DIR_COLORS. Betcha were just checking to see who is
really paying atention ;-)

- John Steiner

Errata

[Athlon Kernel]

If you’re running an Athlon machine, up2date will update your kernel to i386. Instead of updating it with up2date, download the 2.4.9-7.athlon.rpm and rpm -ivh it. Grub will see the old kernel as default so you just need to reset that and you’re golden.

- Ernie Schroder

[More Vi]

I suspect you are leaving a lot of things out since the page will otherwise get really big, but here are some commands that might be worth squeezing in:

J - join the following line to the current line
very useful when using X-Window paste and long lines are split where they wrap in your xterm window.
H - move to the top of the screen
L - move to the bottom of the screen
line#G - go to line line# (especially 1G to go to the top of the file)
Ctrl-F - forward a page
Ctrl-D - forward a half page
Ctrl-B - back a page
Ctrl-U - back a half-page

- Michael Naseef