
 = Assorted RedHat Linux Useful Information AND U.S Server Information
 
INTRODUCTION
 
  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.

QUICK NOTES
 
  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.

DISCOVERIES

  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

SOME REDHAT STUFF
   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
      
   http://www.chuvakin.org/ispdoc
     A guide to setting up a RedHat box with Internet Services (email, web
     etc) The english in this guide is not really that great.

   http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/
     The redhat mailing-lists

   http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html#LISTINGRULESET
     Stuff about iptables which is a kernel 'daemon' which can stop
     connections to odd ports
REDHAT RPM INFORMATION

   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.

JAVA ON REDHAT

   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
     
TOMCAT

   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

MISC STUFF

  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  





