UNIX Information and Links

Other Helpful UNIX References

• Unix resources at Unix.org
• TOC for backissues of the "UNIX 101" column in SunWorldOnline
• Quick guide to shell keywords and commands
• comp.unix.admin FAQ
• UNIXhelp for Users at Oberlin college.
• UnixHelp: Local Section at Oberlin
• Knowledge Base@Indiana State
• Doug's Unix Home Page Has scripts and stuff like that.
• UNIX User Guide, seems good and lots of stuff.
• UNIXhelp for Users at Cal State San Marcos. Includes UNIX, Shell Scripting, Perl Info
• Larry Glaze's helpful sysadmin links
• Unix and Shell Programming Basics
• Jason's Unltimate UNIX Page. Help on a bunch of UNIX platforms.
• the UNIX Reference Desk: a wonderful place to go.

UNIX Related Sites

• Stokely Consulting, LOTS of cool UNIX stuff -- LOTS!!
• The Free Software Foundation Website
• O'Reilly's web site.
• GNU's Not Unix!, an unofficial archive of GNU information
• FreeBSD Web Site
• SunWorld Online
• USENIX, a UNIX organization

Unix Software Sites

• GNU Software Mother Site at MIT
• list of GNU software site and mirrors
• some specific sites.:
  DEC
  UUNet
  wuarchive.wustl.edu
  nic.funet.fi
• USENET Source archives by ftp, or in hypertext

UTILITIES

Big Brother

• Big Brother, A Web-based Unix Network Monitoring and Notification System
  1. Installation
  2. Debugging
  3. Mailing list archive

rdist and rsync

• rsync
  • Here is a big serious script
  • A white paper on backups
• rdist

sudo

• sudo Home Page
• Sudoers Manual (config file)

Dotfile Generator

• the Dotfile Generator, a graphic front ent for those pesky dot files (fvwm, tcsh, emacs, bash, elm)

dxpc

• dxpc Differential X Protocol Compressor. Speeds up X connections. Good for dial-up connections.

FTP

• NcFTP , a fully programable FTP client. Recommended for automated and unattended FTPing.
• wu-ftp Home Page
• Academ wu-ftpd downloads

Make/Imake

Touch

Groff/Nroff/Man Pages

Printing man pages

groff -man -t -e -s XXX.1 | lpr

Sending 'man' output to files

man command | col -bx >file

L

More man page printing:

man -t <manpage> | lpr

Then there's

troff -man /pathto/man/man1/tcsh.1 | /usr/lib/lp/postscript/dpost | lp

Samba

Provides Windows with access to UNIX directory structures.

• Samba Home Page
• Samba FAQ
• List of Samba Mirror Sites
• Samba Mailing List:

  Send mail to listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with one or both of the following in the body:

        subscribe samba Firstname Lastname
        subscribe samba-announce Firstname Lastname
  		

• Linux and Samba Some documentation that is helpful.

Mounting SMB Shares Under Linux

You can also mount smb (windows) shares under Linux. here's a sample format for smbmount:

smbmount //demostation/Documents /mnt/demostation -I 209.227.8.211 -c doobie

UNIX Shells

1. comp.unix.shell FAQs

And links to specific shells:

• GNU-Win32 Project Page, ports of the popular GNU development tools to Windows NT/95 for the x86 and PowerPC processors
• Official site, Tcsh, and tcsh docs
• Bourne shell programming@http://www.ict.pwr.wroc.pl
• Z-Shell. Highly recommended on comp.unix.shells
• Zsh
• UNIX shell differences and how to change your shell (Monthly Posting)
• Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) Inc., A C-Shell replacement for Windows NT.
• Hamilton Labs C-Shell for NT
• Creating commands and programs using the shell

Security

See Eric's security page for more information on security software and issues.

NCurses

1. NCurses FAQ

Publications

1. SysAdmin Magazine
2. Specialized Systems Consultants, Linux Journal, Linux Gazette, other stuff.

UNIX Editors

1. Emacs, the only way to fly.
2. Wily, it ain't emacs, but it's supposed to be extensible and stuff like that.

VI, the Visual Editor.

1. SunWorld article: "Grasping more of the vi editor".
2. UnixWorld Online VI Tutorial
3. Get the FAQ!.
4. VIM, a better VI!, and a VIM Home Page

   Mailing Lists for VIM

   VIM Development:	vim-dev@vim.org
   VIM-Dev subscribe:	echo vim rules | mail vim-dev-subscribe@vim.org
   VIM-Dev unsubscribe:	echo i will be back | mail vim-dev-unsubscribe@vim.org

   • VIM FAQ
5. Calvin, VI for DOS. <filename: calvin22.zip>
6. VI Lovers Home Page
7. nvi Keith Bostic's Berkeley vi Which you can use with Sven Verdoolaege's embedding patch

PostScript Printing and Viewing

1. Ghostview, a PostScript display tool.
2. GNU Ghostscript is an all purpose PostScript converter.
3. Newsgroups:
   gnu.ghostscript.bug
   comp.lang.postscript

Changing $PATH

• For /bin/sh, add to your $HOME/.profile

  PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"
  EXPORT PATH
  

• for /bin/csh and /bin/tcsh, add to your $HOME/.login

  set path=($path ~/bin )
  

  and login again

  echo $PATH
  

Setting Xterm Fonts Size on Command Line

You can set the font size of an xterm on the command line by using the -fn parameter to xterm:

xterm -fn 12x24

xterm -fn lucidasanstypewriter-bold-24

To get a listing of the fonts on your system, use the xlsfonts command:

Solaris Specific

• Solaris Security FAQ
• Solaris 2.5 Software For SPARC
• Shareware (& similar)
  • Jumbo Shareware archive with some Unix content
  • Softinfo Directory of 16,500 software packages from 4,500 vendors
  • Sun-3 binaries Archive of Sun-3 binaries (may require non-browser ftp tool for access)
  • Solaris 2.5 Freeware Site maintained by Steven M. Christensen and Associates
  • Solaris Developer Support Center Development information & links to free tools
  • Sun's Opcom ftp server Free software, docs, demos, & drivers
  • Sun386i archives Archive of Sun386i text files & binaries (may require non-browser ftp tool for access)
  • Sun Solaris 2 archives Archives of Solaris 2 source & binaries (may require non-browser ftp tool for access)
  • Sun Solaris x86 archives Archives of Solaris x86 source & binaries at UC Berkeley.
  • SunWorld shareware feature story resources list