On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi all > > I'm trying to install a Rhat RPM (HP's "OpenMail") on a Debian system here. > A bunch of files in "openmail-core-6.0.5-8.tar" need to go in the > "/etc/rc.d" directory under Rhat ---> Under the Debian file hierarchy, > there's the following directories in /etc: rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d, rc4.d > & rc5.d (ie. no "rc.d"). > > Is there any danger in creating the "/etc/rc.d" directory and storing the > relevant files from the RPM there? /etc/rc.d is a RedHat-ism which is going away, IIUC, in the current/next release of RedHat. The location of the init directories rc<number>.d and init.d do *not* matter to the software package. They *do* matter to the system which finds and executes startup and shutdown scripts. Install the scripts and links in /etc/init.d and /etc/rc<number>.d under Debian. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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