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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Total Newbe,how do I start???? Post 11051 by DownSouthMoe on Wednesday 28th of November 2001 02:14:53 AM
Old 11-28-2001
MySQL First of all it's Linux...

Linux is basically a PC version of UNIX. There are MANY variations of Linux to choose from, but the best ones that I know of are Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, and Caldera.

It would probably do you alot of good to get a copy of one of these (I'd suggest eBay...you can get a copy of the new version of Red Hat Linux (7.2) for around $5 +shipping from various people on there). Also, a decent book on Red Hat Linux will run you about $40 or less. Just look for any book that refers heavily to Command Line Smilie You'll learn alot of what you'll need for UNIX that way.

Also, I don't think I'd try dual-booting if you're a Linux/UNIX beginner....Lilo does NOT like FAT partitions (I learned that the hard way recently). Just get an old PC from somewhere (atleast a low-end p-ii like a 266mhz, and at least 32-64 megs of RAM) with a decent sized hard drive so you have some space to work with...maybe around 5 gig or more.

Anyway, something like that should be able to get you going. Plus, if you've got 2 PCs to work with, you'll be able to play around with networking them together.
 

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faxq(1) 						       mgetty+sendfax manual							   faxq(1)

NAME
faxq - display fax jobs queued by faxspool(1) SYNOPSIS
faxq [-osa] [-v] [-r] [-P<job><prio>] DESCRIPTION
Display the fax queue set up by faxspool(1). faxq looks for all the jobs queued by faxspool(1) to /var/spool/fax/outgoing/*. For each job in the queue, faxq displays some status infor- mations about it. If no options are specified, one line per queued fax job is printed, displaying the job number, sender, number of pages and target fax number. OPTIONS
-v Tells faxq to print a more verbose report for each job (multiple lines). -o Show old jobs, already sent but still in the queue directory, too. -s Show suspended jobs (stopped because of too many fatal errors during sending). You can restart those jobs with faxq -r -a Show all jobs (active, old, suspended). -r Restart suspended jobs. Every suspended job in the queue (that you have write permissions for) will be requeued. Use faxrm to delete jobs that you do not want to be sent! -P <job> <prio> Change the priority of fax job <job> to <prio>. Example: "faxq -P F000247 3". BUGS
faxq doesn't handle time scheduling yet. SEE ALSO
faxrunq(1), faxspool(1), faxrm(1), faxqueue(5) AUTHOR
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