I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Edward Ing
Are the boot scripts different? In different locations? Are directories in different places and named differently? Are people working on a standard linux. Edward Ing

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Gossamer
Edward Ing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Are the boot scripts different? In different locations? Somewhat, yes. Redhat has everything in /etc/rc.d/ and Debian puts them directly in /etc. eg RH's /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is Deb's /etc/init.d/. And Debian has no equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. One of

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
Edward Ing wrote: Are the boot scripts different? In different locations? In general, the scripts located in /etc/rc.d/init.d on Redhat are in /etc/init.d on Debian. Both are sysv-based, so there is not a radical difference like you will find with BSD-based systems like Stampede or

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Edward Ing
with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is? Edward Ing wrote: Are the boot scripts different? In different locations? In general, the scripts located in /etc/rc.d/init.d on Redhat are in /etc/init.d on Debian. Both are sysv-based, so there is not a radical difference like you will find

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Peter Kovacs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote: Edward Ing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... And Debian has no equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. That's not completely true. Debian has an /etc/rcS.d/ which is a general equivalent to rc.local. That's how I get a few

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
Edward Ing wrote: Where can I find the FSSTD, and FHS standard? And what do they stand for? ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd/ look in the 'old' directory for fsstd, while the fhs is current. I believe they stand for File Heirarchy Standard and fsstd is just a bad

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Ing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... And Debian has no equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. That's not completely true. Debian has an /etc/rcS.d/ which is a general equivalent to rc.local. No, it is something COMPLETELY