[Glastonbury] Questions

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:41:44PM +0100, tom hayward wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:18:01 +0000 andrew wrote
> 
> I just boot it each time.
> 
> >What do you mean by Root Shell.  Do you mean shell scripts?
> >Do you have your Knoppix permanently installed on hard disk or
> >are you just booting from the CD each time?

BE AWARE -- if you do boot into Knoppix from CD each time, then most of 
the time you are root - not least because that's the default and there's
no ready way to add a user to a read only medium :) If you install 
Knoppix to hard disk, then you can add non-root users. Running the
whole time as root Just Because You Can is a Bad Idea :)

If you're running KDE - which you are by default - and you click on the
blue window with the shell, then you are just opening up a terminal into 
which you can type commands e.g. emacs helloworld.c 
(which would open the Emacs text editor to start editing a file called
hello world.c).

If you actually want to create scripts to run a series of commands -
shell scripting - then you need to read a whole lot of other resources,
not least the man page for bash / ksh.  Try reading the tutorials linked
from http://startext.demon.co.uk or search Google for the online version
of RUTE.

HTH,

Andy