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
On 12/14/14 20:01, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
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
Hey Clayton,
System|Administration|Add/Remove Software
Filter for "manual"
Select the pages you desire to install.
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
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark LaPierre Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 5:50 PM To: centos@centos.org; Mark LaPierre Subject: Re: [CentOS] need guidance on getting started...again
On 12/14/14 20:01, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
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
Hey Clayton,
System|Administration|Add/Remove Software
Filter for "manual"
Select the pages you desire to install.
-- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 12/14/14 21:17, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
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
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark LaPierre Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 5:50 PM To: centos@centos.org; Mark LaPierre Subject: Re: [CentOS] need guidance on getting started...again
On 12/14/14 20:01, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
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
Hey Clayton,
System|Administration|Add/Remove Software
Filter for "manual"
Select the pages you desire to install.
-- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/
Top posting is generally discouraged on this list.
[root@mushroom ~]# yum install man-1.6f* man-pages-3.22-*
That should get you started.
Clayton,
On 15 December 2014 @03:02 zulu, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Top posting is generally discouraged on this list.
[root@mushroom ~]# yum install man-1.6f* man-pages-3.22-*
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 darr247@gmail.com
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.
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
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