"Alexander 'Loki' Agibalov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>Can't say that I'm a Linux professional, but still...
>I've been using SuSE for a very long time and did not
>experience any significant problems with that method.
>
>However, there could be some. Many RPMs contain the
>scripts which are launched on (un)istallation.
>If SuSE the main trick is that it has all the startup
>and shutdown scripts in /sbin/init.d , while in the
>most of other systems they're in /etc/rc.d.
>
>So if you install some base RPM and find that the dir /etc/rc.d
>appeared, you should transfer everything manualy to /sbin/init.d
>
Hi *,
furthermore SuSE uses /etc/rc.config as a kind of (dare I use the word?) registry for
all kinds of systemwide config settings. This is the BSD way, I'm told.
Well, to apply those systemwide settings to your newly installed *.rpm (if they apply
at all, but if not, the following can do no harm. It just kills every individualized
version of a single config file in /etc that you may have adapted to your needs ;-)
(but to be fair, every single one of these files begins with a comment advising you to
make your changes in /etc/rc.config and not in these individual files. You have been
warned...(Feeling very LISPish today.)) you need to run /sbin/SuSEconfig after
installing the *.rpms.
HTH!
Christoph
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