On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:28:52AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module - > where does this module get loaded? > I currently added a simple modprobe line to /etc/init.d/networking , but > there has to be a better way. On RedHat loading this module is done by the > ifup script.
Edit /etc/modules to include the name of the modules, and options; i.e. "parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7" (make sure you add them in the order they should to be loaded). Then run "update-modules" and a new /etc/modules.conf will be created. > 2. Queries about existing packages: > rpm -q gives a very useful cmmand-line interface for the rpm > system. Things like: > rpm -qflc /usr/bin/foo > #lists all config file of the package to which /usr/bin/foo belongs > > dpkg seems more limited here. Is there any simple way to achive similar > goals with debian? Any way without too much shell witchcraft? Well, all debian packages put their config files in /etc. If you do "dpkg --help", the command options are listed. One is: dpkg -L|--listfiles <package-name> ... list files `owned' by package(s) So if you wanted to only list the config files for, e.g. exim, you could do something like "dpkg -L exim|grep /etc". apt-get is another, powerful, command-line package management tool. > 3. Anything similar to "status" of init.d scripts? > On RedHat running an init.d script with the parameter "status" gives a > simple status of that service. On most cases it checks for a process with > the PID listed in the /var/run file of the service, but in some cases > (e.g. suid, IIRC) the script is a bit different, as that serivce has > better ways to give status. > Any debian equivalent? I don't know about this one. > 4. manipulating rc?.d > On RedHat there's a simple program called chkconfig for simple > manipulations of the symlinks in the rc?.d directories. It gets its > default values from some lines in the init.d scrip itself and has --add > and --remove . The update-rc.d seems to be only useful for package > installation and package removal. > I can always change those symlinks manually, but this can be a bit > erro-prone. What manipulations, exactly, are you trying to accomplish? I have successfully used update-rc.d to have xdm available on my system, but not have it run on boot (this way remote machines can get an xdm login screen, but the system defaults to a text-login). > 5. Single-user mode loads a whole bunch of stuff that are not really > needed. > What is the recomended way to load "failsafe" defaults? Using a floppy? What is the stuff that you don't need? (I'm not an expert on this). HTH. -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux