Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:10:07PM +0100, J. Lambrecht wrote:
> // I am not on the list so please, reply to all
>
>
> Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids
>
> ---
> "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice Hall,2002) "
>
> Debian startup scripts
>
> If SuSE is the ultimate example of a well-designed, well-executed plan
> for the management of startup scripts, Debian is the exact opposite. The
> Debian scripts are fragile, undocumented, and unbelievably incosistent.
> Sadly, it appears that the lack of a standard way of setting up scripts
> has resulted in chaos in this case. Bad Debian!
> ...
> Good Luck
Apparently the author(s) didn't read /etc/init.d/README? or lookup
start-stop-daemon? or updated-rc.d? or read
/usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz
Remind me not to buy that book (I hope "incosistent" is your
misspelling).
> Does anyone now if the SuSE startup scripts would work on Debian, or are
> there more well-planned startupscripts available for Debian.
Highly unlikely as they probably require SuSe thingies...
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