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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: nick on June 15, 2001, 08:52:16 PM
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Hi All
Question 1
I plan to use a dialup modem, and my telephone company (Telstra) charges me for every call. I would like to know if the e-smith server has a log file for the total dial connections it has made. I want to keep tabs on all the local calls made to my ISP and try to keep Telstra honest. ;-) the phone line is only used for the internet.
I couldn’t find any previous answers regarding this, in this forum.
Question 2
In the e-smith server /bin and /sbin there are a great deal of small applications and commands. Where on the web can I find out what they all do. Eg: cp cpio -- awk etc
e-smith has made me hungry for more linux knowledge. I want to pig out.
I did my first backup of 4.1.1 and a new install of 4.1.2 last night ...smooooooth !! 20 mins and I was back on line. e-smith is so smoooth.
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nick wrote:
> Question 2
> In the e-smith server /bin and /sbin there are a great deal
> of small applications and commands. Where on the web can I
> find out what they all do. Eg: cp cpio -- awk etc
> e-smith has made me hungry for more linux knowledge. I want
> to pig out.
man cpio
man awk
etc
Not all commands have man pages, but sometimes you can get brief help using
somecmd --help
or if that doesn't work
somecmd -h
Even if there is no help option per se, if the --help or -h is not a valid option you'll sometimes get a help message of some kind along with the error message.
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nick wrote:
> Question 1
> I plan to use a dialup modem, and my telephone company
> (Telstra) charges me for every call. I would like to know if
> the e-smith server has a log file for the total dial connections
> it has made. I want to keep tabs on all the local calls made
> to my ISP and try to keep Telstra honest. ;-) the phone line
> is only used for the internet.
I believe there is a log of attempts in /var/log/diald/accounting.log
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Thanks for the quick response
You all have been a great help.
The accounting. log file is very interesting.
regards
Nick
I’m spreading the word and the word is...... e-smith.
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The book, "Linux in a Nutshell" is a great resource for Linux commands.
To really learn the Linux OS then I suggest you install a 'general use' distribution like RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, etc.
If you are a Linux newbie then try RedHat or Mandrake first. Or Slack if you are wanting more of a challenge. It will be harder, but you'll probably learn more. IMHO Debian is a hard climb, but it's supposed to be the hot-rod power-tool.
You can install it on a 486 or low end pentium and still have enough power to learn the OS. If you want to use it as a desktop OS then you'll need more RAM and CPU.
If you are using e-smith for anything but a test box then I strongly suggest that you do this. You don't want to fry your production box playing around with Linux.
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nick wrote:
> The accounting. log file is very interesting.
Be very, very careful using dial-on-demand in a pay per call situation, as you are in with Telstra. Unless you are very sure that you carefully control your internet usage, then you should consider using a continuous connection strategy (either during business hours, or all the time). Telstra call charges can be much higher than an unlimited time Internet connection.
Regards
Charlie
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Jeff & charlie, thanks for the tips
Regrads
Nick
I'm spreading the word and the word is...... e-smith