On 12/8/06, Doran Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Even though tools exist on different distributions (chkconfig for
RH/Mandriva, update-rc.d on Debian(isms), yast on SUSE), they all do mostly
the same dang thing: maintain symbolic links between files in /etc/init.d (or
/etc/rc.d/init.d) and the run level directories init scripts process for the
respective run level.
If you learn about the fundamental activity these tools are doing, the tools
themselves are just convenience. Knowing what's going on behind the scenes,
you can pretty much manage anything on any of the distributions.
I would tend to agree fairly strongly on this. Not that I am making
any claims to knowing anything, but after using Gentoo for a while, I
know a heck of a lot more about other distributions than I did before.
So pick your favorite distro and do some digging into how it handles
all of that stuff, and most of that knowledge will carry over.
--
Alex Esplin
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