Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:19:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> So, with all of that said, what can I expect in the way of differences.
> I have already confirmed with him that any and all GUI tools will NOT be
> used for any labs. (i.e. all installation and configuration will be
> text-only, with config files to be edited by hand) I know, for example,
> that the default document path in RH systems is /usr/doc while in Debian
> it's /usr/share/doc. What other things like this should I look out for?
> Can I still expect all config files to be in /etc, does RH use
> /etc/init.d/ and friends, etc. Any and all tips are welcome. TIA.
>
As far as I know, both Red Hat and Fedora also install documentation under
"/usr/share/doc" by default. The init scripts are also under "/etc/init.d",
and they use System V initialization just like most other major Linux
distributions with the exception of Slackware. They also recently adopted
"alternatives", as of RH 9 or so, I seem to remember. Heck, you can even
use "apt" with all the releases starting with RH 8 or so... or use "yum"
or "up2date" if you prefer.
So, differences? It's an RPM-based distro. Yes, you can use "apt" these
days, but still the underlying technology is RPM. So, you'd better get at
least a little bit familiar with RPM: basics about packaging it, what a
spec file is and how to rebuild from source. They still use "httpd" to
refer to Apache everywhere, including in the name of the init script. As
you can imagine the layout of the config files is different too, so I'd
definitely suggest taking a look under "/etc" directory, especially the
"/etc/sysconfig" directory. I cannot think of anything else right now,
but I'm pretty sure other people will fill in.
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