The following files are designed to teach newcomers to the Unix operating system. Every attempt will be made to make these files as thorough and understandable to newbies. As with all things technical, many times it is difficult to understand new material, but don't get discouraged! There is/was method to the madness (most of the time), its just a matter of figuring it out. It is intended that newcomers read these in their entirety, in the order we present them. Unix Lessons Introduction to these lessons History of Unix A quick guide to Unix flavors Getting started: logging in A guide to using and selecting secure passwords getting help from the system (man) fun commands: banner and sysvbanner intro to filesystems and directory structures misc commands 1 (id, groups, uptime, uname, date, cal, whoami) pwd, ls and more file permissions, changing them, and octal notation (chmod) misc commands 2 (file, hostname, domainname) misc commands 3 (du, df, ps, top, who, w, free) [Cognition] Intro to cron Intro to FTP Intro to Procmail inetd.conf Explained coming soon: file/group ownership coming soon: shells, commands, kernel, memory