B. Mann Consulting

The e-smith server is Linux. Sometimes Linux work means command line work. You'll need to connect to your machine using ssh, username of root and your admin password. Here are a few minimal tips on working with the command line.

• Commandline?!? If you're using Windows, you'll want to get putty. On Mac OS X, the Terminal can be used. You'll want the ssh command.
• OK, Stupid Commandline What you're looking at is the shell script bash. Here's the Bash Reference Manual
• Isn't there something easier? Well, some prefer midnight commander. Just type mc at the command line. Oh, and the mc documentation might help
• Isn't there something really easy? Me, I just type wget and paste in the URL of the RPM I want to download. Then I type in rpm -Uvh *rpm and it gets installed.