The only things that the LPI exams will address in published form that is
specific to distribution is package management. Therefore, discussion of
similarities between distributions (beyond package management) is not
necessary.
If the discussion is to determine whether an item is "standard" (such as
the discussion regarding .bashrc), please continue similar threads.
However, we shouldn't focus on specific distribution topics beyond that.
Please refrain from off-topic posts which could lead to flame wars, at
least during our prime development times ;) We don't want to clutter our
list archives ;)
Thank-you!
-Kara
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Michael Viron wrote:
> I would tend to disagree that Mandrake is merely a "redhat" distro. Yes,
> Mandrake was at one time extensively redhat based, but not nearly so much
> anymore--I can think of quite a few differences (I'll list a few):
>
> - Mandrake, by default, is much more secure than Redhat is. With redhat,
> you must specifically disable certain things to make a "secure" server.
>
> - Mandrake is geared heavily towards Pentium level computers, instead of
> based around the "386" like Redhat is.
>
> - Mandrake includes many packages that are not available with redhat...
>
> It would be much safer to say "mandrake and other rpm-based distros".
>
> Michael
>
>
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>
> At 04:24 PM 06/15/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >agreed that it may be a redhat thing, not sure of mandrake and other
> >'redhat' distros....i believe it is as well....
> >
> >but i guess what we need to have people know is what rc files are, what
> >uses them, where you would use them, etc...
> >--
> >Golden_Eternity wrote:
> >>
> >> The file is definitely there on RH systems, but it must be redhat specific.
> >>
> >> As Ray said, it is sourced by the user's .bashrc... Here's the contents
> of a
> >> default .bashrc from RH 7.0:
> >>
> >> # .bashrc
> >>
> >> # User specific aliases and functions
> >>
> >> # Source global definitions
> >> if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
> >> . /etc/bashrc
> >> fi
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> >> > hunter
> >> > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:36 AM
> >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > Subject: Re: LPI 102 ... Some feedback ...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > thats interesting, because it is defautly installed in /etc/ on every
> >> > version of redhat i have used in the past up to and including 7.1
> >> > >
> >> > > > I don't think /etc/bashrc is a standard rc file. It is sourced by the
> >> > > > user's .bashrc (or somewhere) at least on RedHat, but I don't
> think it
> >> > > > is read if not explicitly sourced. The file doesn't exist and is not
> >> > > > mentioned in the man page under Debian.
> >>
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