1. INTRODUCTION [TOC] This file will attempt to answer some important questions regarding everyday types of tasks in Redhat linux. The file will try to do this by pointing out useful Internet sites which contain the information necessary to really get going. Some of the tasks which appear currently important are; how to easily and properly install RedHat Linux packages (of software), where to find lists and descriptions of RedHat packages, how to set up an 'X-Windows' server/ client arrangement, that will allow a Microsoft Windows user to employ a graphical interface into a RedHat Linux Computer. This file also gives some information about the 'Redhat Linux' server which is currently hosted in the United States. 2. QUICK NOTES [TOC] The default 'shell' on the US Server may not be 'bash'. You may be able to go into a 'bash' shell by typing 'bash'. The 'terminal' settings for the US Server, are not quite right, in the sense that the '-' character gets displayed by putty as a little 'a' with a 'hat'. I would assume that it is possible to configure putty to overcome this. 3. DISCOVERIES [TOC] On the US Server, the Proftpd ftp server is running, an SMTP server is running, the Apache Web Server is running, the YaBB message board is installed but not working possibly because of cgi-bin permissions, or perl permissions. linuxconf is mainly for system administration, like adding user accounts 4. SOME REDHAT STUFF [TOC] [*]http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7-Manual/getting-started-guide/ A getting started manual. For some reason this appears more complete and comprehensive than the 'redhat 9' manual [*]http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ A list of RedHat manuals in various formats 5. REDHAT RPM INFORMATION [TOC] [*]http://www.rpmseek.com/search.html A search engine that finds RPM's, where-ever they may be. [*]http://www.rpm.org/ A site dedicated to the RPM engine (as opposed to actual RPM packages which you could install) [*]http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-rpmlite-console.html About installing RPM's from the command line (shell prompt, console window etc) [*]http://rpm.redhat.com/RPM-HOWTO/ An rpm howto. Seems alright. [*]http://freshrpms.net/links/ A site with rpms and links to rpm tutorials. Good links Also 'man rpm' and 'rpm --help' rpm -i ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rh-2.0-beta/RPMS/foobar-1.0-1.i386.rpm A line to install a rpm from an ftp site. 6. JAVA ON REDHAT [TOC] [*]http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html Getting a java sdk for linux [*]http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/install-linux.html Installation instructions for the Java SDK on linux 7. TOMCAT [TOC] [*]http://apache.mirror.digitalspace.net/jakarta/tomcat-4/binaries/ Binaries for the stable 4.1.x series of tomcat (i.e 4.1.18 and 4.1.24 -april 2003) [*]http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.1.24/rpms/ Rpms for tomcat [*]http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/index.html Documentation for Tomcat 8. MISC STUFF [TOC] lftp is a pretty nice looking command line ftp prog with 'mirroring' which means being able to trasfer whole directories at once, and lots and lots of commands: available for unix (linux, redhat, debian) and cygwin. for ii in $(rpm -q -a | sed "s/\-.*$//g"); do whatis $ii; done | less A line to find out what each of the installed packages on RedHat does |