Have you ever tried package 'file-rc' ??? bye ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shyamal Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "J. Lambrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:06 PM Subject: Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)
> "J." == J Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > J.> // I am not on the list so please, reply to all Sigh, and now > J.> i now why Debian's not for kids > > J.> --- "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice > J.> Hall,2002) " > > J.> Debian startup scripts > > J.> If SuSE is the ultimate example of a well-designed, > J.> well-executed plan for the management of startup scripts, > J.> Debian is the exact opposite. The Debian scripts are fragile, > J.> undocumented, and unbelievably incosistent. Sadly, it appears > J.> that the lack of a standard way of setting up scripts has > J.> resulted in chaos in this case. Bad Debian! ... Good Luck > J.> --- > > J.> Does anyone now if the SuSE startup scripts would work on > J.> Debian, or are there more well-planned startupscripts > J.> available for Debian. > > I've never used SuSE too much (I could not stand how intrusive it > seemed to my old fashioned ways), but I don't really understand what > the quote above is all about. I find the Debian start up scripts > pretty well put together. Maybe the fact that I've only used Slackware > and Debian significantly in the last 10 years has set my expectations > too low? ;-) > > Perhaps you should try them before you lose them? Could you be more > specific about the problems? > > There is an alternate package: file-rc. Never used it though. > > Cheers! > Shyamal > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
