02-02-2007
Thanks for that great reply. Well, it definitely answers my main question of where to begin. The links to
Unix Unleashed Internet Edition and
The Cathedral and the Bazaar will prove invaluable resources no doubt. Thanks again!
I'll do a bit a reading over some coffee and hopefully that will help me decide which to try. I'm quite interested in Slackware, but Ubuntu would be an easier way to start. I just wonder if easy is better at this stage, or will I learn 'bad' habits that slow me down later. You didn't seem to recommend FreeBSD, I don't know its advantages/disadvantages at all.
I'll try downloading Solaris, Slackware and Ubuntu and perhaps try each of them to get a feel from the installation of which would be the one to stick with for a while, while I learn.
Thanks again and I hope i'm able to give you some good feedback pretty soon.
About MAC OS X, it is very easy to install, setup and use. Plus, it just looks pretty. As a user, I have had no issues at all with it (It's going to be a while, before I can give you an answer that's more in depth than that).
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httppower
httppower(8) powerman httppower(8)
NAME
httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units
SYNOPSIS
httppower [--url URL]
DESCRIPTION
httppower is a helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units. It is run interac-
tively by the powerman daemon.
OPTIONS
-u, --url URL
Set the base URL.
INTERACTIVE COMMANDS
The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:
auth user:pass
Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
over the network in plain text.
seturl URL
Set the base URL. Overrides the command line option.
get [URL-suffix]
Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.
post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.
FILES
/usr/sbin/httppower
/etc/powerman/powerman.conf
ORIGIN
PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters. This software is open source and distributed under the terms
of the GNU GPL.
SEE ALSO
powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman
powerman-2.3.5 2009-02-09 httppower(8)