On Feb 28, 2007 at 11:24, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit) praised the llamas by saying: > I am quite technical and in general prefer hacking text files rather than GUI > editors. > > But I find Grub scary. Partly that I know that if I get it wrong I have a > nasty unbooting machine (does grup mean Get wRong and machins is UnBootable). > I've naver had a machine that had grub on it to be unbootable. Grub nicely has a command line that allows you to fix everything if you get the config file wrong
> If find the file created by debian/ ubuntu really hard to understand. I am > not sure whether the issue is > - the file is complicated per se > - the version created by the installer is too general/ complex The file is autogenerated from your kernels and some options you specify using the update-grub script. You only need to worry about the kopts line usually. > > I am not sure what the answer is but > - from my techy perspective I would like to take the file apart and > understand/ simplify it (on a machine that doesnt matter too much if I loose > it for a day!) > - from a more general perspective some form of GUI would be a good idea. > > A parallel - the oreilly book on apache security suggests that you throw away > the all singing / dancing config generated by whatever distribution you have > and construct one you understand. > The debian/ubuntu apache2 config setup is very very simple. Create vhosts in /etc/apache2/sites-available and then run a2ensite. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
