Whatever happened to getting your hands dirty? It's all point and click these days.

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
>On Dec 7, 2007 7:00 PM, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>> http://www.europe.eclipse.co.uk/Ubuntu/Printing-710.htm
>
>It's always a quandary. Linux users with a modicum of smarts are
>apaled by this, but the functionality is designed for the joe-sixpack
>Luser who could give a good squat about how it actually works.

GUI interfaces are fine for things one has to do rarely, and can
be useful for learning if they are merely front-ends to shell
commands and allow you to see what they're doing.  IBM's SMIT was
great for this as it not only showed the commands, but created
logs that could be used to see the commands.

When I'm learning my way around systems, I'll frequently touch a
file to get a timestamp, do something with the system tools, then
check to see what files changed.

touch /tmp/timestamp
# do something
find /etc -newer /tmp/timestamp > /tmp/changes

Bill
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