Linux Help

Dave, I am running an Internet Café in which I have about 10 workstations and one server. Now I am planning to configure a proxy server on LINUX for my cafe to improve performance in browsing. For this I have installed Complete REDHAT 9.0 in a machine equiped with 1.3G RAM, 80GB HDD, 1GHz MP, Intel P4, plus 2 NICs (Real Tech). But I have no idea about how to configure PROXY on it. Kindly let me know about any links or tutorial which can help me in a jumpstart. I do not want to mess with linux deeper. I just want to sonfigure PROXY and that is it.

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Dave, I have just purchased your book Solaris 9 for Dummies to help me learn the OS. I have been accustomed to the rubbish Windows XP Pro system and fed up with crashes and the rest of the multitude of problems that are inherent to Windows therefore I purchased a Sun Ultra 5 workstation (refurbished) and really want to get to know it and how to use it.
My problem is that the welcome screen names Alfred as the host. Please would you tell me how to change the name? bearing in mind that I am completely new to Unix systems and somewhat intimidated by the jargon.

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Dave, I have searched the web over and can’t seem to find an appropriate answer to this question. I have a need for a script that will create millions of 1-5Kbyte files in a linux filesystem for testing purposes. I have to do this on a regular basis and it would be really cool to have it scripted. I am not sure what the quickest way to do this would be?

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Dave, I am a Sun Solaris sysadmin and really liked your book
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. However, I don’t seem to find the “rev” utility on any of my Sun servers running Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and even 9. I couldn’t find it on the sunfreeware.com site either. Could you tell me where I can find it?

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Dave, I want to copy a directory tree BUT I want to specify the root of the operation and the destination directory and then specify name/type patterns a la find. The result I want is the root at the destination and then only the directories which have files that match the pattern and the files themselves. Does that make sense?

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Dave, Why is it that, “out of the box”, the Firefox browser looks great (font wise) when run on a Windows OS but looks terrible (almost too small and unreadable) on any Linux OS I have tried it on. It is probably the number one killer reason for me not switching to Linux.

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Dave, I have a straightforward Linux question that’s got me stumped. I have a directory with lots of files that include an underscore, but I want to produce a listing of files that don’t have the underscore, not those that do have it. I can get it with a combination of ls, grep -v and such, but it’s painful and convoluted. Is there a simpler solution?

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