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I thought I pass on a tip so some people learning how to administer unix/linux systems..

if you have a few workers on the same box or multiple boxes (like a work enviroment..) how do you make sure all have the same settings (ie .profile .bash .csh and starting and ending scripts ) with out you coping them all to the indavidual computers?

the answer is a dir called /etc/skel

just place them there..

or better yet... make that a network mount so you just change that one location..

for more information see

http://www.fr.linuxfromscratch.org/view/bl...stlfs/skel.html

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not to side track your thread, I noticed you refernced the LFS book. That is a great place of knowledge. I forgot how to install grub, I am so used to gentoos ebuilds doing it for me. I first went to grubs homepage, but could not find the needed info. The LFS book told you exactly what needs to be done; it was laid out in a very simple easy to follow method.

http://lfs.osuosl.org/lfs/view/6.0/

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not to side track your thread, I noticed you refernced the LFS book. That is a great place of knowledge. I forgot how to install grub, I am so used to gentoos ebuilds doing it for me. I first went to grubs homepage, but could not find the needed info. The LFS book told you exactly what needs to be done; it was laid out in a very simple easy to follow method.

http://lfs.osuosl.org/lfs/view/6.0/

yes.. LFS was my first Lunx system I did not buy... I bought Red hat since 5.0 (downloaded a very early version in 1994 but it would not run on my compaq with SCSI drives)

LFS and BLFS are both great book I keep, a trick I did was to make a PDF and print them so for me they are books.

as for side tracking... this is what I wanted this post to be.. people posting hwo to get answers or tricks that are not standard Linux users stuff.. so comment away.

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