Hi- Been using linux on and off for a couple of years (just playing around), and recently got a bit more serious and set up an old Pentium as a webserver to serve up family photos, news, etc etc... I'd like to get a bit more basic understanding of the system as I need to admin it remotely from time to time and although VNC is cool and all, don't want / need to bring up a GUI interface all the time - for instance: Yesterday my main user's account had expired - and I needed to get on the machine from work. Can log in as root via ssh, but had no idea where the "expire this user on such a such date" setting was... So out comes ssh forwarding ports all over the place and VNC over ssh to the remote machine just to bring up KDE, then the user admin gui, yadda yadda yadda... What I'm looking for is a cheat sheet of linux commands that are distro independent for starting/stoping daemons, services, user admin, editing init levels etc. Does anyone have an "essentials" list they keep in their back pocket for times when the IU is only a command line? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list