Linux Tutorial Series – 176 – Review

Here is the video version, if you prefer it:

Let’s recap the main points:

• Use cron to schedule things periodically; use at to schedule things only once
• Every single computer in a computer network has an IP address through which it can be addressed
• ip command is used to see information about your network interfaces
• Use ping someWebsite to check your Internet connection (you should have no packet loss)
• Use ssh to login to a remote host
• Use scp for copying files to/from a remote host
• X Window System is related to the Linux desktop
• Build systems exist to ease the process of creating an executable from source code
• To build something from source code do the following: 1. Download the folder with the source code; 2. Run ./configure; 3. Run make; 4. Run make install

Hope you refreshed your memory!