[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux beginner list?

[Wayne Dahl]

Hi all.

Ok, shortly after I sent that last email to the list, I stumbled across the 
answer.  I was attempting to install packages with Glint and rpm from my 
normal user account.  I suspected it probably had something to do with that 
as I had read somewhere in the install documentation that you couldn't do 
it that way.  What was confusing me was that, from a shell command line, I 
would log in from my normal account to an su, which requires the same 
password as root.  I was under the impression that logging in as su would 
be the same as a root login.  Glint would not even start when I was logged 
in as su.  I logged in as root to issue a shutdown command and thought I 
would give a try to running an rpm that way and it went just fine.  So I 
started Glint and tried using it that way, worked like a charm.

I have most of the machine working.  I have a DSL router with 2 Windoze 
computers and the Linux box connected to it and the Linux machine can see 
the outside world.  The two M$ machines are networked together on a 
peer-to-peer network and I haven't gotten to the point yet where I can see 
any of the files on that network from the Linux machine.  Will get there 
sooner or later.

Sooo...my next question is...can you recommend a good email list for 
beginners?  Having read some of your posts, it's obvious to me that I'm in 
way above my head here right now.  That doesn't mean I'll leave, it just 
means I don't want to bother you folks with what you would probably 
consider painfully elementary questions.

I appreciate the responses to the last question.  I figured I would 
probably hear "upgrade your system" and I will shortly.  I don't leave the 
machine on when I'm not sitting in front of it as it's not on a UPS and 
this Windoze machine I'm using right now is getting even quirkier than M$ 
can be because our power sucks here and goes off without warning.  Happened 
just yesterday and this machine was on while I was in the living room.  I 
REALLY need to get a couple of UPS's.

Thanks for the help,

Wayne