Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-06 Thread Scott
Excellent. Thanks again VERY much to all of you for the very good info and time to help. Sincerely appreciated. Cheers, Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Scott wrote: > | 1. authconfig - used to turn on/off MD5 passwords > > # dpkg-reconfigure -plow passwd > > will prompt you (again) for whether or not to enable md5 passwords. > I /think/ answer to that question affects how /etc/login.defs and/or > /etc/pam.d/{login,

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-04 Thread Paul Mackinney
Paul Mackinney lied: > Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu Well that was a rather sloppy reply, wasn't it? Steeped in humiliation, PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:28, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > > | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place > > > > I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need > > out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other > > hardware

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Mackinney wrote: Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu (one of the more impressive featres of RH, IMO). The 'modconf' command run as root allows you to dynamically enable/disable kernel modules, and 'dmesg' will print all the startup messages, which typically show lots of dev

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Paul Mackinney
Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place > > I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need > out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other > hardware info, as seen by the kernel, can be found in /proc. There > a

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:53:56PM -0500, Scott wrote: | Greetings: | | Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these | configuration questions?: | | As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration | files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is gone with deb

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:53:56 -0500, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Greetings: > > Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these > configuration questions?: > > As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration > files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is