Generic Unix/Linux system information

The following pages apply to lab-managed Redhat (Fedora, CentOS) and Debian (Ubuntu) Linux systems, unless otherwise indicated:

• The majority of Unix-like systems in the laboratory use Linux.
• Printing from Unix systems.
• Unix (and other) file systems in the department, and NFS access using 'sec=krb5' (most machines since Jan 2009).
• Software installation under Unix: covers software installation under the versions of Unix available in the Computer Lab, other than Fedora Core 3 and earlier.
• Window Managers and Desktop Environments: GNOME, KDE, Xfce, fvwm2, twm, mwm.
• Initialisation files and configuration – what happens when you log in. "Dot"-configuration files: what they are for and what to put in them.
• X resources – controlling the properties (fonts, colours, geometry etc) of X window applications using a .Xresources file.

Redhat (Fedora and CentOS)

See the Redhat user WiKi page (or read only, not raven protected) for general info.

• Using removeable media.

Application information

• History completion under the default shell bash.
• Using Condor
• Running MySQL and PostgreSQL database servers.
• Customisation of emacs/gnuemacs, and a collection of pieces of Lisp code which can be placed in your .emacs file to do useful things.
• Introduction to exmh (a graphical UI-based mail reader).
• Use of faces (48x48x1 xbm bitmaps)
• Introduction to mh (a command-line mail reader).
• Using (La)TeX under Unix.
• Using VNC