Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-06 Thread Scott
Excellent. Thanks again VERY much to all of you for the very good info and time to help. Sincerely appreciated. Cheers, Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Scott wrote: | 1. authconfig - used to turn on/off MD5 passwords # dpkg-reconfigure -plow passwd will prompt you (again) for whether or not to enable md5 passwords. I /think/ answer to that question affects how /etc/login.defs and/or /etc/pam.d/{login,passwd}

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Mackinney wrote: Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu (one of the more impressive featres of RH, IMO). The 'modconf' command run as root allows you to dynamically enable/disable kernel modules, and 'dmesg' will print all the startup messages, which typically show lots of

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:28, Paul Mackinney wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other hardware info, as

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-04 Thread Paul Mackinney
Paul Mackinney lied: Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu Well that was a rather sloppy reply, wasn't it? Steeped in humiliation, PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Scott
Greetings: Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these configuration questions?: As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is gone with debian, which is fine, I just need to figure out where everything went.

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:53:56 -0500, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: Greetings: Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these configuration questions?: As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is gone

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:53:56PM -0500, Scott wrote: | Greetings: | | Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these | configuration questions?: | | As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration | files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is gone with

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Paul Mackinney
Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other hardware info, as seen by the kernel, can be found in /proc. There are