[COLUG] greasy fingertips

[Gary Iddings]

Sean McHenry <McHenryTech at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> >cat /etc/resolv.conf

> nameserver 64.233.222.2
> Nameserver 64.233.207.16

Odd capitalization

> >cat /etc/host.conf

> Order hosts,bind

Again, odd capitalization

> >/sbin/ifconfig

> Etho	Link encap:Ethernet Hwaddr 02:00:06:E3:C7:C7

Why is some stuff in the first column capitalized?   

> >/sbin/route -n

> Kenel IP routing table

Strange spelling of Kernel

> Destination		Gateway	Genmask		Flags		Metric
> Ref	Use Iface
> 192.168.1.0		0.0.0.0	255.255.255.0	U		0
> 0	0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0		0.0.0.0	255.255.0.0		U
> 0		0	0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0		0.0.0.0	255.0.0.0		U
> 0		0	0 lo
> 0.0.0.0		192.168.1.1	0.0.0.0		UG		0
> 0	0 eth0

The spacing is all screwed up.  
Did you use a variable width font in your email program?  
Please use a fixed width font (like Courier)
Also, please don't use tab characters.  

> >date;ping -n -c 5 192.168.1.1;date

> 5packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4035 ms

It's odd that there's no space in "5packets" between '5' and 'p'.  

> Rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.82/1.089/1.101/0.022 ms

Nevermind the capitalization of rtt, it's more than merely odd 
that the minimum of 1.82 is greater than the maximum of 1.101.  

It seems that you typed the responses by hand and have typing errors.  
Please don't hand type the output even though you are using a 
different box than the server for email.  
Not only is it painful to type so much computer output, 
it is so prone to errors that 
I don't know what output actually happened and what was mistyped.  

Please rerun the commands, without typing the commands 
and without typing the output.  The commands are: 

cat /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/host.conf
cat /etc/hosts
/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/route -n
date;ping -n -c 5 192.168.1.1;date
date;ping -n -c 5 64.233.222.67;date
date;ping -n -c 5 156.63.146.83;date
date;ping -n -c 5 -b 192.168.1.255;date

You might need to be root to run the last command, 
but don't worry about it.  

Use your mouse to copy the above commands and save them 
in a plain ASCII text file, stdin.txt, on a floppy.  
Put that floppy in the server and copy the 
stdin.txt file on to the server.  

Use cat to verify that the file has the commands 
and only the commands.  

Hand type one command: 

sh <stdin.txt 2>&1 | tee stdout

Copy the files, stdin.txt and stdout, 
to the web pages part of your server.  

Email the URLs of those files to COLUG.  

******************************************************

We UNIX/Linux folks are a lazy lot.  
We hate typing stuff we don't have to.  

On most Linux computers, you can use the mouse to 
copy and paste on text consoles.  

   man gpm

For Linux, three button mice are much better than two button mice.  

Also, get used to using ssh.  
A reasonable Windows ssh client is available from: 

   http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Also, get used to using scp (or pscp on Windows) 
to avoid using the sneaker net.  



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