Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 05:16:55PM -0700, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
> > > 4. The organization of the file system in Debian is superior,
> >
> > I don't know, still getting used to it. What I really liked from
> > RedHat is that they moved all the startup files into a subdirectory
> > of /etc/rc.d. Debian (at least 2.1) is using the Solaris style,
> > i.e. /etc/rc?.d
>
> like he said, Debian's filesystem organiazation is superior.
> /etc/rc.d/* sucks. i very much prefer the saved typing when starting
> stopping services that debian has ie: /etc/init.d/foo stop instead of
> the unnecessarily verbose /etc/rc.d/init.d/foo stop
Perhaps you meant the symlink farm of /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??*
apt-get install file-rc will take care of all that for you. As the
administrator you edit /etc/runlevel.conf instead of making and deleting
symlinks.
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