On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Christoph Hammann wrote:
> "Alexander 'Loki' Agibalov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> __________
> >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
>
> --
> This is not here.
>
Yes on running SuSEconfig afterwards and I HAVE experienced losing files
that were created outside of /etc/rc.config. I guess one has to follow
the rules of SuSE or fall by the wayside. Its not bad though, once one
understands it..
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