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> On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
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> > I don't know. I never used Red Hat so I'm not sure of course, but is it
> > possible to do basic system administration in Red Hat from the command
> > line ?
> > Not everyone has or needs X.
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> why wouldn't it be? when i was just starting out,i configured everything
> by hand.'didn't have much of a choice cause my vidcard was unsupported.
> when i finally got X working though (new vidcard), i decided i didn't
> like the control panel cause it was harder to use and i wasn't
> particularly bent on the idea of doing things "blind".
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> > It seems to me from what I've seen on
> > other people's machines that Red Hat likes to put config information in
> > files that are easy to find for their GUI tools, but hard to find if you
> > want to do things manually.
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> true, plus some of those scripts are a mess. if you've ever seen
> redhat's network-scripts, you'd know what i mean. they make simple things
> look complicated.
No not a mess and complicated, very much to the conturary, it would seem you
dont realy understand them if you say something like that.
If in slackware you want to stop a daemon starting at bootime, you need to
edit a file, (huum which file!) not nessasary with Redhat suse or debian,
you just delete a symbolic link in the rc(runlevel).d directory.
Just about every script has more insureance against trying to do something
which cant be done if something has gone wrong beforehand, slackware does
not do that either.
Just about every script has a start stop or ask option, meaning, if you want
to stop a deamon for example while the system is running, just type
/etc/rc.d/init.d/daemon_name <stop> and to start the deamon <start>.
I am not bias, i use both Slackware and Redhat, after all They are both
"Linux systems". I can assure you Redhat is far supieriour to Slackware when
it comes to boot scripts, period.
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> > > it's when you find you don't need this list anymore that using the
> > > other
> > > ditro's is more adviseable.
> > > <grins>...as though I can really talk...I'm more of a newbie than most
> > > of the people here, I'm sure.
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> right. you ppl go on ahead and learn all the distros you want. i'm going
> to freebsd once i tackle the (linux) beast. :)
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Thats your choise, you will be back......
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Regards Richard.
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