Rick Troth wrote:
But you're right - I do go around yast ;-)
I do too: YaST is handy, but don't let it rule your Linux world.
Thankfully, most of what YaST does is adjusting of standard files,
so in this case, if you do go around it, you simply have to know
all of the files to fiddle with.
I used to think that by editing text files I was acquiring skills that
would port well between distroes.
Mostly, what I learned on RHL ported well to Debian.
And then
And then
And then I tried SuSE.
In particular, I've fiddled with DHCP client scripts a time or two, and
on my laptop I came up wiith a cute way to reconfigure BIND as a caching
name server using appropriate forwarders each time my network comes up
or goes down (including when I insert/remove my PCMCIA wireless card).
The same trick does not work on SuSE, SUSE doesn't do it the standard way:-(
The chkconfig command, which is present in SUSE, don't work exactly as
on RH/Fedora systems either, and there are other ways Rh and Debian are
more alike than RH and S.
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Cheers
John
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