Re: nis

1999-03-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: he seguido el howto de debian nis.pero no me tira.Los comandos ypcat ypwhich si funcionan,pero al intentar acceder desde el cliente con una cuenta que este en el servidor...no.no pasa del login Los comandos ypcat ypwhich si funcionan -- ¿desde el servidor o

Re: Tamano de las letras de XTerm

1999-03-27 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Todas las respuestas que te han dado te habrán valido: * Lo de usar las fuentes de 100dpi (aunque te fijaras que esto significa que todos tus programas en X tendrán las letras más grandes, no sólo las xterm). * El menú de XTerm (hay más menús, pulsa los otros botones del ratón)

nis

1999-03-27 Thread jon
me podria decir alguien al configurar el nis que ha modificado en los scripts yp.conf,nsswitch.conf,ypserv.conf. Si estan las shadow password instaladas,tambien hay que modificar el Makefile que esta en /var/yp con una opcion -s en el DBload. en el passwd y shadow en la ultima linea va -

Re: nis

1999-03-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Los comandos ypcat ypwhich si funcionan -- ¿desde el servidor o desde el cliente? ¿cambiaste /etc/nsswitch.conf? funcionan desde el cliente.he cambiado en nsswitch.conf ¿están las líneas de +:: al final de /etc/passwd? ¿es el servidor Debian

X, xdm + /etc/profile e outros.

1999-03-27 Thread Alexander Gieg
Ola' a todos! Apos ficar algumas horas lendo paginas de manual e o Portuguese-HOWTO, consegui fazer a acentuacao no modo texto e no X funcionarem perfeitamente (no caso do X, substituindo a libX11). Agora, apos tanto trabalho, ainda restam tres pontos importantes, e gostaria da ajuda de vcs:

Re: X, xdm + /etc/profile e outros.

1999-03-27 Thread Alexander Gieg
'As 14:40 de 27 Mar 99, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodrigu enviou o texto que respondo abaixo. Ola'! 1) Quando eu inicio um shell no console, e depois inicio o X (via startx), todas as configuracoes do /etc/profile estao presentes dentro do ambiente de trabalho grafico: dircolors, aliases,

Re: Converting RH to Deb

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB Just wondering if there is anyone here familliar enough with the GB Red Hat system to know if this is possible with a reasonable GB effort: Someone tried (successfully) to convert his Redhat installation to Debian. But reading his notes, I would

staroffice question

1999-03-27 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I am thinking about getting Star Office for my Debian Box but I had a question. I noticed that there is a Star Office 5.0 edition available from the star office site. Do I have to download the older version (3.1) of Star Office in order for it to work with the Debian Installer?

Dual-boot install with SCSI HD

1999-03-27 Thread pschwebe
I want to install Debian 2.0 on an AMD K6-2 system. I'm using an ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM. My HD are both SCSI, running off a SIIG AP40 controller. One drive for Win95, the other for Debian. The boot drive boots Win95. The Debian install doesn't see the SCSI drives. How do I fix this? Thanks for any

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-27 Thread Ulrik Haugen
Sorry for sending this to you twice Kenneth... Seems I just can't get used to the Reply-To's. * Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have also been told that the 2x and 4x drives only will write ONCE at that speed without powering down the computer (and therefore the drive) to let it cool down.

Re: staroffice question

1999-03-27 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 03:17:27PM -, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, You don't must install a previous copy of staroffice, if You suck the staroffice package from the net there is a installation-routine which do the installation. it runs, .. very slow ... , but it runs ;-) only one thing is

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-27 Thread MallarJ
I just burned 3 CDs back to back today at 2x speed. Never have heard of anything that requires you to power down after writing a CD, and frankly, any drive that would require such a thing wouldn't be used by me in the first place. I seriously doubt there is such a beast.

PHP Apache 1.3.5

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
Hi, Does anyone know where can I find binary debs for PHP compiled to work with Apache 1.3.5? thanks in advance marek -- -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3ia Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. mQCNAzao258AAAEEAM7hrSfj5QmbZMJ64b1COVrXNuraF95y8Djln0a37UBlLZQ7

Ever have one of those cool! moments?

1999-03-27 Thread MallarJ
I've been playing (read frustrating myself crazy) with Linux now for a few months. I have done an upgrade from hamm to slink. I figured out how to get X running. I figured out how to get KDE installed. I can call my ISP. I just had one of those cool! moments I thought I'd share with everyone

Re: staroffice question

1999-03-27 Thread Tabor Kelly
I simply used thier script to install it. This doesn't allow you to uninstall it with Dselect, but oh-well. Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am thinking about getting Star Office for my Debian Box but I had a question. I noticed that there is a Star Office 5.0 edition available

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-27 Thread Tabor Kelly
I burn multiple CD's with my EIDE cd-rom burner all the time. And no where in the documentation did it tell me I couldn't. My software even let's me burn multiple copies. Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape

1999-03-27 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, if you want to keep this version of Netscape, just install the xlibc6 in the oldlibs directory and it should work. On 26-Mar-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: You probably downloaded the libc5 version of netscape and installed used the debian netscape4 installer package. You could install the

Re: Zombies

1999-03-27 Thread Kent West
BTW, has anyone else noticed that the manpage for ps(1) is uglier than sin? Whose idea of nroff formatting is that? Mine looks okay; well, other than it being a man page and I find most man pages ugly to begin with, but only because I speak English instead of Developer :) (why don't they ever

Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Okay- new question. When I tried to send this message I got an error from Netscape Messenger saying that I couldn't send it to Branden because the Administrator had prohibited it. AFAIK, I am the Administrator, and I don't recall ever prohibiting sending mail to anyone or

xfstt printing

1999-03-27 Thread wax_man
I'm having printing problems relating to my use of xfstt (true type server). My printer is attached to a little 486 machine which is being used as a dialup/print server. I don't have X installed, and don't have the room or power for it on that machine. Anyway, is there a way to make it see

Re: Zombies

1999-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Kent West wrote: Mine looks okay; well, other than it being a man page and I find most man pages ugly to begin with, but only because I speak English instead of Developer :) Have to agree with Brandon, it's completly broken. There _is_ no nroff formatting, they took a preformatted text file

netstat entry

1999-03-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Evening all. I've found this entry in netstat output: tcp 57 1 Mizzou-AS7-21.mis:10802 pavlov.midco.net:ftp LAST_ACK Thing is, I don't remember connecting to pavlov.midco.net There are no entries in syslog with name pavlov, or xferlog, for that matter. Any ideas where else I can look

Re: netstat entry

1999-03-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Midco is one of the primary ftp mirrors for Debian. *slaps himself* Doh. I should have thought of that. Thanks a lot. Andrew

RE: Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Mar-99 Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Okay- new question. When I tried to send this message I got an error from Netscape Messenger saying that I couldn't send it to Branden because the Administrator had prohibited it. AFAIK, I am the Administrator, and I don't recall ever

RE: Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Mar-99 George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: Are you using Exim? He must be, Adminstrative Prohibition is the standard Exim wave off message. George Bonser Support The THING -- http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html I had the same problem with Netscape,

Need printer help

1999-03-27 Thread Robbie Huffman
I'm hoping someone out here can help me discover why my printer won't print. Until not very long ago, I was using a Slackware system, and sending my infrequent print jobs by hand using gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1. Now that I've switched to Debian, I can't get that much

Re: Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Kent West
George Bonser wrote: BTW, what does /var/log/exim/rejectlog give as a reason for rejecting the message? Support THING! (THing Is Not GNU). http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html 1999-03-26 22:57:34 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=westk03

Re: Netscape

1999-03-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, if you want to keep this version of Netscape, just install the xlibc6 in the ** oldlibs directory and it should work. I think Christian meant xlib6. xlib6 is the X Window lib compiled

update-rc.d

1999-03-27 Thread Piotr Legiecki
Hi I'v received an answer to my question about managing links in rcx.d directories, but it wasn't what I was talking about. The update-rc.d scripts simply removes links AND scripts from init.d directory and I want only temporarly disable running some daemons during system startup (like netsysv

Re: Sorry, it's sound again, pls. help

1999-03-27 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, O. Niepolt wrote: which _is_ the standard kernel for slink? Would it make sense to use 2.2 or to use ALSA? Where could I find 2.2 kernel debs? I'm asking this I have an SB16PnP and I recently posted the instructions on how I did the sound on my system to this debian-user

Netscape 4.5 Crash

1999-03-27 Thread Bernhard Dobbels
Hi, If i click on a a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tag and my messenger-window is not open, Netscape crashes. If messenger-window is open, everyting goes well. Any solution (or do i have to wait until 5.0)? -- Bernhard DobbelsStudent Electronic Engineer

Help with CD writing

1999-03-27 Thread XRDLAB
Hello, I am using an ide cd-writer (HP7100i) to burn cd's. I have recompiled the kernel (2.0.34) with scsi emulation enabled. So far I am able to burn cd's after making an image of the files/directories I need to burn using mkisofs. I have some problems/questions for which I need some

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-27 Thread Richard Harran
Just posting to thank everyone who helped me to sort this out. My problem was that I hadn't selected all the necessary options in the sound section of the config. I also needed to create the audio device files with: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV audio Thanks again Rich Graham Ashton wrote: On

Re: Debian 2.1 Installation a mess

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SN == Shawn Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SN 10.) Finds out that GPM can't be set up because doesn't look like SN serial module is running. So, did you install the serial module during installation? If not, use modconf to do it. Ciao, Martin

Re: what is net-pf-19?

1999-03-27 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:58:26PM -, Pollywog wrote: Isn't net-pf-19 for Appletalk? I had to disable it also. I believe Appletalk is net-pf-5.

Re: install

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
g == gio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: g We received your three CD's without boot disk. Is the boot disk g missing or is there a different way to install Linux. You can install Debian from bootdisks (they are on the CD, you can create them), by booting from CD oder by running the install.bat.

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC The From: header is okay, but the envelope From header gets GC written as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The my.isp.com is getting through GC because I could tell smail that my visible_name was the domain of GC my ISP and not the local machine name. GC Some

Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MP == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP /sbin/depmod -a MP /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp MP /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio MP ...etc MP I presume that under debian I actually just add these modules to MP /etc/modules?? Yes. MP is short for video live?? And I have no idea about

Re: Coupla quick questions...

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GS == Gary Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GS 2.) I noticed in my /var/log/syslog that when GS connecting to my ISP I got the message modprobe: can't GS locate module char-major-10. I checked the archives GS and dejanews and found some discussion but all I could GS garner was to alias it

Two dosemu problems--second try

1999-03-27 Thread Curt Daugaard
Can anyone shed any light on these? (1) I can't start dosemu in an X-window or use the modem except as root, even though I have all c_all permissions set for myself in the user config file. (Before I upgraded from v.66 to v.98.1 I was able to run under X, but I didn't try the modem.) (2) When I

kernel 2.0.36 and netgear fa310 netcard

1999-03-27 Thread Marco Frattola
hi all, i'm using a 2.0.36 home-built kernel with a fa310 netgear card (10-100). the netgear driver (source) came in the floppy accompaining the card and replaced the tulip driver originally in 2.0.36 (i also tried the old one, but the card didn't work). this is my problem: the card is 'plugged'

Re: update-rc.d

1999-03-27 Thread shaleh
Hi I'v received an answer to my question about managing links in rcx.d directories, but it wasn't what I was talking about. The update-rc.d scripts simply removes links AND scripts from init.d directory and I want only temporarly disable running some daemons during system startup (like

svgalib mouse problems

1999-03-27 Thread ivan
Hello, I'm having trouble in two areas whilst trying to learn to programme the mouse under svgalib. 1. The programme that comes with the source mousetest.c once compiled will run correctly for root but not for me (ivan). The error is svgalib: Failed to initialise mouse. This programme is

Problems with S3 Trio 3D 2x AGP

1999-03-27 Thread Eurisko
Hello! I have a big problem: I have a S3 video card with 4 Mb but I'm not able to make it work fine. I've tried with the S3 and SVGA servers, but it only works with the VGA16. Video Card Specifications: S3 Trio 3D2x Version 2.0B.06 SuperProbe report chipset: 0x8a13

Star Office 5 Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-27 Thread Ryan K. Losh
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My thanks (belated) to Gregory Noonan

1999-03-27 Thread Nun Yobiznez
Dear Sir, Thank you for your redirection in the way of install. It helped me greatly in overcoming the hurdle to installation. Tim P.S. Sorry for the delay.I've been trying to get the install correctly configured but have run into problems w/ the perl and

My thanks (belated) to Gregory Noonan

1999-03-27 Thread Nun Yobiznez
Dear Sir, Thank you for your redirection in the way of install. It helped me greatly in overcoming the hurdle to installation. Tim P.S. Sorry for the delay.I've been trying to get the install correctly configured but have run into problems w/ the perl

Re: update-rc.d

1999-03-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 09:35:27AM +0100, Piotr Legiecki wrote: Hi I'v received an answer to my question about managing links in rcx.d directories, but it wasn't what I was talking about. The update-rc.d scripts simply removes links AND scripts from init.d directory and I want only

test - please ignore

1999-03-27 Thread Pere Camps
This is a test. please ignore.

Colour Map Problem

1999-03-27 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi After much fooling around I have Communicator running but The problem now is the Colour map. Netscape requires true colour I can only seem to get 4 bit susdo colour. How can I get 8 bit or higher colour. In this mode Netscape goes black and White not to useful. Real hard on the eyes too as

Re: Netscape mail - multiple profiles?

1999-03-27 Thread Vinicius De Mario
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I am running Netscape 4.5 under Debian (hamm). What I need is to be able is to open different Messenger profiles with different mail folders, different Hi, I'm using Kde mail client. It have a multi-profile facilitie who works very well, like Netscape on

RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-03-27 Thread Don Custer
I've been toying with Linux for about 3 years now. I do not have it mastered, but I haven't given up either. Part of me is delighted with the current regognition of Linux (RedHat), but the other part fears that some entity such as Microsoft will somehow crawl out of the woodwork and take over.

Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-27 Thread William R Pentney
(I'm new to this mailing list, so if I am sending this message to the wrong place, please accept my apologies.) I have installed Debian 2.0 alongisde Windows 95 by splitting the Windows partition, and it was relatively headache free (phew!). I didn't leave as much room on the Linux partition as

Re: Zombies

1999-03-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Package: procps Version: 1:1.9.0-2 Severity: wishlist On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:58:10PM -0600, Kent West wrote: BTW, has anyone else noticed that the manpage for ps(1) is uglier than sin? Whose idea of nroff formatting is that? Mine looks okay; well, other than it being a man page and I

Hard Disk Boot Failure -- Endless 01 01 01 etc

1999-03-27 Thread Jeff Hill
When booting from hard disk, the system goes through memory test and then starts an endless stream of zeros and ones. Booting from floppy works fine. Any suggestions? This is a new installation of release 2.1 (Mar. 9). I have it on the first hard disk on the second IDE channel. As I'm building

Re: Hard Disk Boot Failure -- Endless 01 01 01 etc

1999-03-27 Thread Johan Groth
Jeff Hill wrote: When booting from hard disk, the system goes through memory test and then starts an endless stream of zeros and ones. Booting from floppy works fine. Any suggestions? It seems to me that LILO is broken on the HD. Try to reinstall LILO on the HD. ///Johan --

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, William R Pentney wrote: (I'm new to this mailing list, so if I am sending this message to the wrong place, please accept my apologies.) I have installed Debian 2.0 alongisde Windows 95 by splitting the Windows partition, and it was relatively headache free (phew!).

Re: Sorry, it's sound again, pls. help

1999-03-27 Thread O. Niepolt
Roy-Anders Larsen wrote: I have an SB16PnP and I recently posted the instructions on how I did the sound on my system to this debian-user list, see: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9903/msg03187.html I think http://netgod.net/ has the latest kernel debs, but I don't know if

Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, some non-Debian packaged software I have wanted to install requires to be started at boot time. Often script bits are to be included in: /etc/rc.d/rc.local On my Debian system (slink) I can not figure out where to add this since I do not find rc,local. I am a newbie and do not undestand

Re: Star Office 5 Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RKL == Ryan K Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RKL I know that I'm probably a moron for running up to date potato RKL systems. However, when potato moved to Glibc 2.1, my Star Office RKL 5 stopped working. Is there any way to have BOTH Glibc 2.0 and RKL 2.1, or is there some other way to make

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Mark Wagnon
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, some non-Debian packaged software I have wanted to install requires to be started at boot time. Often script bits are to be included in: /etc/rc.d/rc.local On my Debian system (slink) I can not figure out where to add this since I do not find rc,local.

Netscape problem

1999-03-27 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Awhile back I saw something on here about a netscape problem I am getting now. I guess I should have saved that message. Anyway, it's got to do with netscape not being able to open the libXpm.so.4 library or soemthing like that. Does anyone knows what I need to do to get it to

Re: Netscape problem

1999-03-27 Thread Mark Wagnon
Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, Awhile back I saw something on here about a netscape problem I am getting now. I guess I should have saved that message. Anyway, it's got to do with netscape not being able to open the libXpm.so.4 library or soemthing like that. Does anyone knows what

Re: Netscape problem

1999-03-27 Thread dyer
Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, Awhile back I saw something on here about a netscape problem I am getting now. I guess I should have saved that message. Anyway, it's got to do with netscape not being able to open the libXpm.so.4 library or soemthing like that. Does anyone knows what I

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: I am a newbie and do not undestand the init files in Debian yet. I have tried to read up on it, but I am still confused. Can anyone help me out, please? Debian uses standard System V init files. There is no such thing as rc.d or rc.local

ftp mail

1999-03-27 Thread wtb
Does Debian 2.0 (hamm) installation have an ftp and mail program included to use with the ppp? I have the pon and poff controlling my modem. It dials and makes all sorts of wierd noises but then what. I need ftp to avoid floppy problems in getting netscape and X packages. Thanks, Bill

Re: Two dosemu problems--second try--ONE SOLVED

1999-03-27 Thread Curt Daugaard
So I'll respond to part of my own post. In searching usenet, I happend upon a solution (probably not the right one) to problem #1 (running under X and using the modem). Running xhost +host machine name got dosemu running in an X-window. (Huh, didn't used to have to do that.) Also, apparently

Re: ftp mail

1999-03-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Weird noises you hear is modem, I believe. And it's perfectly normal. Anyway, once you can dial out to your ISP (do plog just to make sure that you are connected), you can use apt or dselect to ftp files over to your machine. No mail program though. And, before you can get Netscape, you need to

Re: ftp mail

1999-03-27 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Does Debian 2.0 (hamm) installation have an ftp and mail program included to use with the ppp? I have the pon and poff controlling my modem. It dials and makes all sorts of wierd noises but then what. I need ftp to avoid floppy problems in getting netscape

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi again, guess what I need to know is how do you start programs at boot on a Debian system. I have tried to put my soundon* script from OSS in rc.boot and I get an error message when booting saying: cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface It must be a way to load software/scripts in a simple

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local??? NO /etc/rc.boot and rc.local are totally different things. If you do not know what you

what is flex ?

1999-03-27 Thread Àùåóëîâ Àëåêñåé
What is flex ? Pathfinder

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local??? Not if you just

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local??? NO /etc/rc.boot and rc.local

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What RH package there is which has no Debian equivalent? 2. Why should Debian be RH-compatible? If someone switches to Debian from RH s/he should be prepared that some (re)adaptation will be necessary. The guys from the