RE: In search of mentor...
Bastian,
Thanks for the response. I have actually pulled down the printtool utility
to see about doing some Man pages for it. I will also take a look at the xt
package you suggest, thanks. I hope this isn't the wrong way to go about
things but interests here are two-fold. By doing grunt work, programming,
man pages whatever, I hope to improve my Linux skills in general. I also
hope to become a useful member of the open-source (Debian in particular)
community. Unfortunately I "grew up"/work in an M$ environment so my
exposure to Linux is limited to what I do on my own. Added some other
comments inline just FYI...
Thanks again!
>Barry, I don't know exactly your programming experience, but to develop
>something useful in Unix/Linux, and especially developing packages
>for Debian you must at least be familiar with the following tools:
>
>- - the 'bash' shell
Definetely need more work in this area.
>- - the 'man' program to read documentation (lots of documentation)
No problem here.
>- - the 'make' utility for Makefiles (for example the debian/rules file
> is a Makefile)
Definetely need work here.
>- - the programming language (Perl, C, etc) in which the package is written
I have been looking at Python in the last few days but C still remains the
language I most want to get a firm grip on. Unfortunately I work in an M$
world so the majority of my experience has been in VB, ASP, VBScript, and
some Javascript. I have done some Cobol, Fortran, and RPG on the AS/400 but
C/C++ has always been where I want to go. Unfortunately I'm a tactil type
of person so I don't learn well by reading, taking classes etc. I need to
dig in and see what's going on so it becomes somewhat of a double edged
sword!! :-)
>If you dont know one of the above points, start learning them.
>There are numerous tutorials about these tools on the web, and
>it is always good to ask a local (ie. in your office) Linux guru for
>help.
Unfortunately I AM the Linux guru in my office!!! :-)
>
>> this might be difficult to do. id say just try something, and if it is
>> too difficult, ask for help, or move on to something else.
>
>I am suggesting the xtraceroute package 'xt'. It is written in
>C and has some bugs to fix, notably catching error conditions.
>
>Cheers,
>- --
> Bastian Kleineidam
Thanks again for the suggestions!!
Barry deFreese
NTS Technology Services Manager
Nike Team Sports
(949)-616-4005
Barry.deFreese@nike.com
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