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General

• Network Configuration for Red Hat Linux
• Vassar TCP/IP Network Configuration Information
• Choosing a Name for Your Computer (Internet RFC 1178 by D. Libes)

Security

• Please use Secure Shell (SSH) instead of Telnet or rsh/rcp/rlogin
• Using Public Key Authentication with SSH
• How to Choose a Bad Password

Emacs

• Introduction to the Emacs Editor
• Brief Summary of Emacs Keys (just the most useful ones)
• The full Emacs Reference Card

Linux

Linux Help Pages

• Scientific Linux CERN 3 (SLC3)
• [MOVED] Red Hat Linux Installation/Upgrade Checklist - details of what I usually do when I install or upgrade Red Hat Linux.

• Useful Linux Links
• Linux HOWTO's via the Web

• my "Staff" of Unix system administration tools (see the README file for an explanation)
• Kickstart Installation of Red Hat Linux - instructions, boot disk image, configuration file, and some useful hints and scripts for automatic installation of Red Hat Linux via kickstart. And a more specific example:
  • Kick-me boot disk
  • Kickstart Installation for the UM ATLAS Grid Cluster
• Kernel Build Checklist
• Linux Hardware Installation Checklist - to check your hardware for planning an installation

• PPP configuration scripts for Linux (see the README file for details -- these are configured for the University of Michigan)

E-mail

• Configuring Pine, Netscape, or Eudora to read your IMAP e-mail
• Using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) with Pine

  Pine Links:
  

  • Using Pine E-Mail (tutorial from U-M ITD)
  • Pine Information Center - University of Washington
  • The Pine FAQ - University of Washington

• E-mail Software Links

Tutorials

• Fortran Programming for Physics and Astronomy
• A Quick Introduction to RCS (the Revision Control System)
• How to backup your data with tar

Etc...

• UPS NUT installation (from Jeremy Herr at U. Michigan)

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