Can I set permissions so that they propagate
Sasquatch wrote (in part): One way to have things like this occur to you is get the book, "Linux In A Nutshell" by Ellen Stever et. al., published by O;Reilly. I have the 4th Edition, but if you buy, always get the most recent edition. It is not much of a tutorial (not its intent), but it does contain the manual pages for (almost) all the Linux commands; i.e., pages 31 to 495 -- about half the book. The rest of the book is quite useful, too.
Won't work, no matter what you try! Worse yet, even a pair of real serial ports on the same box, wired up with a null modem cable will *not* provide...
Here is part of the blurb on the back cover:
Michael Heiming I get most of my e-mail through my ISP, and they run Spambuttbuttin with some rules they...
Linux in a Nutshell covers all substantiantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for most common Linux Distributions. It's several quick references rolled into one; CVS, RCS, sed, gawk, vi, emacs, bash, tcsh, regular expressions, package management, bootloaders, desktop-environments, and core command-line utilities are all covered in this clear, to-the-point volume.
Another useful book for a Linux newbie would be "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh et. al., also published by O'Reilly. Here, too, get the latest edition; I have the 4th Edition.
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