examples of admin across various distros

Under construction

Gentoo Debian Redhat

Installing a package

emerge PACKAGE

apt-get install PACKAGE

rpm -i FILENAME

yum install PACKAGE

adding a boot time service

rc-update add SERVICENAME default

/sbin/chkconfig add SERVICENAME

Viewing services

rc-update –show

/sbin/chkconfig –list

TAIL on Solaris and Linux

tail -n 100 FILE

Show last 100 lines of FILE (or actually show the lines fo file starting from the 100 lines from the end

tail -100 FILE

Show all lines of file starting from line 100 of the file

tail +100 FILE