On Sun, 09 Mar 2003, J. Lambrecht wrote: > // I am not on the list so please, reply to all
This is shockingly close to a troll. > "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice Hall,2002) " I haven't read this, but my expereince with Prenhall technical books has not left me with a good impression of them. (I used to know a sales person who worked there - she said they were considered a joke in the industry. This was several years ago; I don't know if this is still true or not.) > 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! Ugh. Suse's startup spagetti is not exactly what I'd call a role model. I'll admit I'm fairly anti-Suse, and this the state of init.d is one of the reasons. tracing a startup failure through the morass of runtime environment and config files sucks, IMO. There certainly are some inconsistencies in Debian's setup, in that they don't all work the same way. I see no real reason why they should. (I can think of some nice directions they could go in for enhancement, but that's a different topic.) But fragile? hardly. I work with a company that is mostly Suse. They spend a lot of time at the console. I finally made them install a debian box for my company, have never even seen it, and manage it remotely. Go figure. > Does anyone now if the SuSE startup scripts would work on Debian, or are > there more well-planned startupscripts available for Debian. I'm not aware of any. Feel free to hack them in. I can't imagine it would be very fun. What is it exactly are you complaining about? -j -- Jamie Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
