Newbie Here!

Hey, I'm new to Linux any advice?

When does one know they are no longer a newbie?

This is my original post, part of the newbie process.

Hi All! I'm new to linux world and I want to learn more about the OS and other stuffs. What linux distro is good newbie like I to start with. I want to learn the ebox can anyone help me? Thanks!

regards

Hi Everyone,
i'm newbie, it's nice to see you guys and masters in this forum.
well,..
backtrack is the first linux distro that i've installed, but i wonder how to install it in usb, i want to ask,
what is the usb universal program that have backtrack 5 r3 in their linux distribution list?, (i've tried using yumi,pendriver,so on)
so that i can not install it in usb.

please tell me if anyone who has the program or advice to solve this problem.

thank you.

Where is the How-To information located? On this web site? With my Linux distribution? Other? Apologies in advance from a newbie.

Hello Guys,

I am an newbie, just started with linux, I have installed centos 6.6 and learning it. But I got stuck in some user controls,

Now In my company I wanted to have an Linux Server and need to do the user authentication and wanted to create domain, But also wanted that my Client OS would be MAC and Windows..

Can anybody Help ??




Please reply here or in my email :- Yerunkar11@gmail.com

Once again thanks Again for reading, really appreciated

So, I'm new here. Was thrown into the deepend (read: shallow pool) of linux administration of a few centos 6.5 servers in October, and I've been pretty slow on the uptake. Years of Windows administration and desktop support will do that I guess.

So we have qmail on our prod servers that send out messages for our webapps. Postfix failed last night on a prod server, and it occurred to me that it's happened a few times since I've started, and instead of waiting for clients to tell us, I should be more proactive. I came up with/begged/borrowed/stole a quick script to check to see if postscript was running, and if it was, restart it, and contact us. This was to be run from jenkins.

Quote:
if (( $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep postfix | wc -l) > 0 ))
then echo 'Mail is up.'
else echo 'Mail is down! Attempting to restart service...'
service postfix restart
fi
The question was then raised about an unresponsive process (zombies!), and I figured it might be a better idea to use postqueue -q, or mailq to either see a Mailbox is empty, or look for fatal if postfix is off or unresponsive. This is where I ran out of coffee and went over the deep end.

To get this to work, I thought it would be a good idea to run two scripts. One to check if the mail queue is empty, and if not, send up a flag. The next was to run a few minutes later to check and see if the mail queue was throwing up a fatal error, and if it was, throw up a second flag, which sent out an email from jenkins. Incidentally, if the mailqueue were clogged, this would also trigger an alert. Our mailqueue doesn't get a lot of traffic.

First command. Returns then and else statement without issue.
Quote:
if ((mailq | grep 'empty') < 0 ); then echo 'Mail is up.'; else echo 'Mail queue is not empty. Please check mail server'; fi
Second one... Not so much.
Quote:
if (mailq | grep 'fatal') < 1; then echo 'Mail is up.'; else echo 'Mail queue is not empty. Please check mail server'; fi
You can probably suss out what I'm trying to do here, even though I'm not doing it right. Any ideas? I know this is newbie stuff, and I appreciate your taking the time to read this people.

Hello Linux users. I'm described as a newbie (which i am) but you've never seen a newbie as new as I am I'll wager.

I installed Zorin 9 OS core as an alternative to Microsoft crap that I'm really tired of, (cost as well as never vending bugs). Yes I know I'll still have bugs with linux but at least the patches and fixes in any Linux distro is for the benefit of Linux users and not to sell more Microsoft crap.

I have evidently been reasonably successful to install the latest Zorin 9 with my desktop environment choice. However I'm used to (and like) the MS so called quick launch bar at the bottom of the XP desktop installation, from which I can place links of any app or web link to instantly go there. Correct me if I'm wrong but Linux has basically the same quick launch function which I can choose from the software center and I've tried to select and install at least 2 named Cairo-dock and Docky for example. I did choose and install those according to the Linux prompts but I notice no change in the "Avant Window Navigator" at the bottom of my desktop, and when i try to drag a web link or app to that bar it either flips back to the link spot i saved on the desktop, or there's no action at all. In other words I am not able to put a link or app on the AWN, which AWN does not serve as a dock launcher at all (except for my Firefox browser icon WHICH IS INSTALLED at the left bar location and does work to quick launch Firefox when I left click on it.

So how do I not only properly install that notorious quck launch app in linux Zorin 9 OS and finally drag or otherwise install my links there?

thanks for any advice or replies.

Hi...am considering learning the basics of linux administration and our company supports Redhat. Unfortunately, I can't afford to use a license software for my self-study...can anyone recommend the nearest free lINUX package to be used for educational purposes with LINUX? Thanks and God bless!

I use following shell script to send email. But the subject of email always shows "This" instead of "This is L_1.R is finished". You may refer http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-define-variable-in-%60ssh%60-4175540566/
Code:

host_list=("c15-0330-01.ad.mtu.edu" "c15-0330-02.ad.mtu.edu" "c15-0330-03.ad.mtu.edu" "c15-0330-04.ad.mtu.edu")
program=("L_1" "L_2" "L_3" "L_4")
subject="The job is finished"
ssh -f c15-0330-01.ad.mtu.edu 'echo' "the job ${program[0]} is finished" '|' 'mutt "zwang10@mtu.edu" -s' "This is "${program[0]}".R is finished";