Open source can be annoying, just when I think i've learnt it everything has moved/changed.

I have just installed debian 6, the kernel mode setting is getting it wrong for my hardware. I need to override some stuff so I go in search of the menu.1st grub config file ... its missing

man entry for grub .... missing - thats poor, if people are going to constantly dick with paths/config files they could at least have a man entry giving an overview of this months "correct way"

?How do I pass kernel arguments?

Thanks, Jon

I am completely new to Debian and Unix/Linux. I have created a new group
called dba. I could not find it and typed in the command addgroup dba and
gives a message that the group dba exists.

How do I find/access the new group dba and add users?

Hey.
I am trying to learn linux. Googling anything like: linux + "problem" gives me many solutions to fedora and ubuntu, mostly ubuntu. So I installed ubuntu. Great community; over 1500 users on the IRC, and great forums, help sites and easy to navigate through websites.

I then deicide to install awesomeWM, but then I stumble across a very hard installation, so I try to just "apt-get install awesome". On the #awesome channel (IRC) I am told that the current version of awesomeWM given by ubuntu is old, and I have to wait to the next release of ubuntu. I was told to look into some distro that was more bleeding edge, and people mentioned debian.

After installing the stable version (only one I could find at the moment) I release this is far from "bleeding edge".

How to add perlfunc manpage and other perl functions to debian manpages?

I can see it exists at Debian Manpages but not in my machine..

Wondering why arent these perl functions in the manpages in the first place.

Thanks

I have the following script (see below) but it keeps failing and stopping but if i run the command manually it works fine. I am currently using debian 6 but this same script works fine on debian 5.

Please advise.

#!/bin/sh
CAMNAME="CCcam Server"
# end

# This method starts CCcam
start_cam ()
{
/emu/cccam/./CCcam.x86 &
sleep 2
}
# This method stops CCcam
stop_cam ()
{
pkill CCcam.x86
}
case "$1" in
start)
echo "[SCRIPT] $1: $CAMNAME"
start_cam
;;
stop)
echo "[SCRIPT] $1: $CAMNAME"
stop_cam
;;
restart)
echo "Restarting $CAMNAME"
stop_cam
start_cam
;;
*)
"$0" stop
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0

Run Results:

root@debian6:~# cccam start
[SCRIPT] start: CCcam Server