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Mitchell Brown wrote: > Hi, I've been using Kanotix lately, and I'm used to RH systems (PCLinuxOS > (Mandriva), SuSE, etc). Here's a little list of querks I've come up with > hoping you guys can help me with > > > - I've discovered the Debian equivelant of chkconfig is update-rc.d, > but Actually this is not the case. Update-rc.d only deals with setting up the startup scripts to run at boot time (well technically scripts can be run in any runlevel, but I am guessing that you do not know much about init yet... man init if you are curious, ) > - When I try to do update-rc.d vsftpd start, > - And connect to localhost, Likely what you are looking for is something like: /etc/init.d/vsftpd start > - Connection refused > - How do I do a restart command with it? > - How do I make something autostart on boot with it? > - Where do I get screensavers?! Check your repository. I have no idea what Kanotix uses, but likely it has aptitude which can be run from the command line. aptitude search screensaver aptitude install <package name> If you are only used to RH and derivatives, then anything Debian will seem a little strange. Debian.org and tldp.org are good sources of info. The following link is a pretty thorough walk through of a guy setting up his Debian Sarge box as a workstation: http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/desktop-system-setup-debian-sarge.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEdU5BwRXgH3rKGfMRAiZiAJ9iJebHsSU/58KXfzUvUTCzV11AJwCaA87b 3UhAx2QJPgspJmcsN9MUbSc= =ht6k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
