Linux Newbie PLZ HELP

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 10:28 pm

I installed RedHat8 onto my server, and everything works, but I have NO CLUE where anything I installed is located, or how to run them. I need to get VNC (http://www.realvnc.com) working, and I installed it, but I dunno how to run it.

Plzzzz help

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:01 pm

man -k string

Or, you could just read the docs from the site:

http://www.realvnc.com/gettingstarted.html

Stef

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:30 pm

But those are for unix?

whatz a -k string? lol

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 3:17 pm

But those are for unix?

Yes, and it applies to Linux as well.

whatz a -k string?

'man -k <string>' is the same as 'apropos <string>', which searches for the <string> in the whatis database. The whatis database stores a short description for each command/function that has a manpage. To see what I mean, try 'whatis cp'. Of course, there can be more than one command/function for a <string>, for example doing a 'whatis printf' should yield at least two entries--one for the built-in shell utility and one for the function in the C stdio.h library. The output should look something like this:

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[stu@stargate stu]$ whatis printf
printf               (1)  - format and print data
printf               (3)  - formatted output conversion

Those numbers in the parenthesis indicate a section, and the first section listed is the default one you view when you do a man--so, 'man printf' will open section 1 by default. You can view particular sections using 'man <section> <command/function>'--so, to view the 3rd section of printf you would issue the command 'man 3 printf'.

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 7:42 pm

Linux is based on Minnix a versoin of Unix.
For a server I would Debian as Stef says or Free BSD. If you are new to *nix you need to do some reading to learn what it's all about and how to use it. I just started not too long ago and it is not M$ windows by far. As for Redhat distros I prefer Mandrake myself over RH. The learning curve is steeper but it is well worth it in the end.
From what I 've been learning Deb is harder to install but easier to maintain.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 12:15 pm

The instructions should be in the INSTALL or README file in the directory where you exploded the tarball or the installation directory.

If you installed as a package with anaconda, or rpm after the fact, you could use the services gui (I believe vnc is run thru xinetd?).

CLI, you could edit xinetd.conf and make sure you have an entry for vnc. Restart xinetd (kill xinetd's PID -HUP) and you should be happy --- xinetd doesn't require a reboot to re-read it's config. If it doesn't use xinetd, it should

Either way, locate the directory where it was installed and make sure you don't have a config file to play with.

Do you prefer VNC to ssh/scp/sftp?

Skye

EDIT - another useful tool for RH is locate. Run updatedb as root at the prompt (this builds the dabase). Then locate filename it's pretty smooth - searches the whole fs. VNC is probably in /usr/local, but in RH8 install, a lot of config files are in /etc, so make sure you find the REAADME or INSTALL files.