On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:36 am, you wrote:
> Ok I got a Linux question in DOS their is a mem command and a msd command
> mem allows you to see total RAM used - free etc... MSD gives the stats of
> the systems hard ware. Does linux have any similar commands? Also does
> linux support usb? any one know of a good online resource for common linux
> commands? If it's important I'm using Caldera open, I'm in the process of
> downloading Redhat but thats gonna take a while:)
Using the command free will give you the mem stats.
The command procinfo will show a summary of system resources.
Some systems don't have procinfo installed so the cat
/proc/<resource_you_want_to_see> command will work.
Example: cat /proc/interrupts will show the usage of IRQ's on your system...
AND cat /proc/dma will show the DMA channels in use.
Using top will show running services on the system.
The command df -aH (disk free -all Human readable) will show the
partitions on your drive(s) and the total usage [Used] and [Free] of disk
space.
The command du -H /directory where directory is the specific directory you
wish to look at, will show the files and total amount of space each has used..
Using du without a switch will show ALL the files on the drive and total
usage..
I'd like to suggest you try Mandrake as it has some very good tools using
graphical interface and over all seems to be much nicer than redhat while
staying RH compliant.. The 2.4x kernel has pretty good USB support and
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 support it , SuSE 7.3 has the 2.4x kernel and , I
believe, RedHat 7.0 and 7.1 ..... Mandrake 7.2 has the 2.2.17 installed by
default but there is a kernel upgrade RPM for the 2.4x kernel.
SUSE has the best manual I've seen for version 6.3 and also there are a
number of SAMS books that cover the subject pretty clearly.. Unix in a
nutshell has helped me a lot even though it is not srtictly linux..
I don't know of any place where there is a list of commands (I wish I did)
although there are many places where you can look for commands specific to
your needs. Possibly build your own personal list from them.
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Ken Thompson
Electrocom Computer Services
Payette, Idaho
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