A tip for anyone starting up with Linux. Plan for backups and either find a useable backup utility for your distribution and download and install it and study it or write your own shell script to do the job. If you can learn how to use it for both backup and restores you'll have learned one of the system administrator's basic tasks. Yes that's right, if you install Linux on a machine and yourself are root, you're a system administrator. Allbeit a very new one at first. For anyone interested in discussing sys-admin type topics, you can send email to majordomo at vger.kernel.org with subscribe linux-admin in body of message. You'll be sent back a confirmation request along with an authorization code you need to use to start your subscription. There's also linux-newbie on the same server. For the slackware beginners, you've got linux-slackware-subscribe at yahoogroups.com too. Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>
