New Linux user and several questions!

[Janina Sajka]

No problem, Brian. Maybe I'll meet you in person next time? I do hope
there will be a next time! <grin>

PS: The www.linux-speakup.org site is now back on line. It was briefly
down yesterday.

Brian Olesen writes:
> Hi Janina,
> Oh, how I'd love to have been there when you last were in Denmark.
> Thanks so much for this. Now there's lots' of nice work for me to begin 
> with just in this single message. *gg*
> 
> Best regards
> Brian
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: New Linux user and several questions!
> 
> 
> Welcome to Linux.
> 
> Brian Olesen writes:
> >HejSamuel,
> >Brian Olesen, le Fri 08 Jul 2005 17:51:07 +0200, a écrit :
> >>How can I get into Linux?
> >>Where do I start?
> >
> >Well, what do you want to do ? :)
> >Regards,
> >
> >In the beginning I just need to act as an administrator of the Linux 
> >server
> >I have here. There fore I probably need some basic skills of the command
> >line tools and commands of Linux / Unix?
> >How do you creat a user,
> useradd
> 
> >
> how do you setup the ftp server
> Edit /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf as appropriate.
> 
> 
> service vsftpd start
> 
> to turn it on for your currently running session.
> 
> chkconfig --level 35 vsftpd on
> 
> To enable it to start automatically on boot.
> 
> Do:
> 
> chkconfig --list |more
> 
> for a list of services manageable through the service and chkconfig
> commands.
> 
> 
> You should setup up yum and update your installation. It's only been a
> month, but already there are over a gig of updates to Fedora 4 packages.
> That's normal, by the way. Linux is a much more dynamic environment than
> the proprietary OS environment.
> 
> Remember the man command, it is your eternal friend.
> 
> Use the "Now What" pointers we provide in our Installation HOWTO for the
> Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution:
> 
> http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora/HOWTO_INSTALL.html
> 
> 
> PS: Kernels for the Speakup Modified Fedora 4 should become available
> within a week. Installation iso images are probably also not far away.
> 
> 
> >and such things.
> >I have some sort of interface on the system called Webmin 1.210.
> >
> >I think I can do thousands of cool things with that, but I'm afraid to do
> >something wrong, so I'd prefer to start out with some command line stuff
> >and slowly making progress.
> >
> >Best regards
> >Brian
> >
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org