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First Unix Tutorial enrollments are only 2 weeks away

I will have the first three modules of the Unix Foundations course ready in the next few weeks, and plan to open the Unix Tutorial Members area in exactly 2 weeks, on March 16th, 2009.  

You can now join the Unix Tutorial waiting list to make sure you get an email when I open the registration.

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Hi again, here's some more Unix articles which you'll probably find interesting and useful

Unix-related releases

• KDE 4.2 released
• Ubuntu 8.04 2 LTS released

Useful Unix tips

• uSbuntu Live Creator – boot your favorite OS from USB stick
• Backup del.icio.us bookmarks from Unix shell

If you have any useful articles you'd like to share – just leave links in the comments area.

See also:

• Interesting Unix reads, Jan 22nd, 2009
• Interesting Unix reads, Sep 21st, 2008

Having used this tip a few times myself, I'd like to share it with you: a very simple way to list all the drives in your Ubuntu system using their UUID's.

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Just updated the Unix Glossary section with the following definitions:

• kernel
• operating system
• symlink

There's no way these will be final, and so I'll be updating them now and them so stay tuned. For example, the Unix definition is still not in the glossary, because I'm struggling with wording the paragraph for it. Will add next week, for sure!

Now that I'm finally back into my usual posting and reading other blogs, I think it's a good time to restart the "Interesting Reads".

Here are the Unix articles you might like:

• Tools to delete files securely in Ubuntu
• List installed packages in Ubuntu – some more tricks in addition to my original article
• Unmounting unresponsive CD/DVD drive in Linux

Enjoy these useful Linux tips! If you have any useful articles you'd like to share – just leave links in the comments area.

I've just created another section on Unix Tutorial – the Unix Glossary, which is a section I'm going to use for listing definitions to all the topics I briefly touch in my regular posts.

So far, there's only one item there – runlevel definition. Obviously, it's a work in progress, so I'll be updating definitions constantly and expanding the section as I post more.

The plan is to have a Unix Glossary section at the bottom of each post on Unix Tutorial, so that it gives you another chance to expand your understanding of Unix basics.

If you have any terms from Unix world which you'd like me to cover first, please head over to the Unix Glossary page and leave a comment there with your suggestions.

Let me know what you think about this, do you think it will help? If there's any other side of this blog you'd like changed or improved – just let me know. I'm using this blog as my own reference all the time, so I always appreciate your feedback as it makes life easier and Unix Tutorial better for everyone.

As I plan my goals for 2009, I'm thinking of making a few self-paced courses for all the readers of this blog.

I think it's about time some of the basics are covered in a format of a course, complete with structured material and examples and with some multiple-choices testing.

If you want to learn Unix

If you're interested in anything like this, please leave comments or contact me directly with your suggestions for course topics and desired structure. Also, if you're keen in becoming a member - join the Unix Tutorial waiting list right now!

Unix Tutorials – self-paced courses

So far, the most popular topics and therefore the first candidates for courses are the following:

• Unix shell scripting
• Finding files and directories in Unix
• Unix users and groups
• File ownership and access permissions
• rsync tutorial
• sudo tutotial
• unix sockets
• comparing files in Unix

Have you got an idea for a great Unix tutorial? Let me know and I'll see what I can do.

See also

• Join the Unix Tutorial waiting list
• How to use Unix Tutorial website
• Unix commands
• Unix reference
  

If for whatever reason you stop using a certain service in your Ubuntu install and would like to disable automatic restarting for it upon system reboot, all it takes to do it is just one command line.

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If you want to quickly create a new user account in your Unix OS, it ca be done with just one line

Adding new user accounts in Unix

To create a basic Unix user account with default settings, you need to know only one thing: the username.

The reason I say it as one word is because username (quite often referred to as "login") is not the actual name of the new person gaining access to your Unix system, but rather a single keyword uniquely identifying this user in your system. Most often, usernames are derived from real names of users – jsmith, johns or smithj for John Smith, just to give you a few examples.

The simplest way to add a new user to your system is to do run a command like this:

ubuntu# useradd jsmith

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I've just integrated a new section: Unix Commands. The long-term plan is to have a categorized list of commands with most common usage documented in my typical easy-to-follow examples.

So far, there's not much, but I will referer to this section a lot in my future posts and its pages will have more examples for a particular Unix command compared to the original Unix Tutorial post where such a command is mentioned.

Have a look for yourself:

• Unix Commands – the main index
• Basic Unix commands – like it says, they really are basic. If you can think of something else which should be part of it, let me know
• Advanced Unix commands – to Unix gurus they'll seem basic as well, but my only guidance so far was that commands there will be the ones you don't have to use on a daily basis. As I add more pages, this section will most likely become something like "Most common Unix commands" and a set of really advanced commands will be added.

Let me know what you all think, and if there are some immediate candidates for any of the section – let me know and I'll add them to my list!