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One Debian question. Is there a tools analogous to the Red Hat Control Panel. While I generally do most of the system admin things by hand, such as host names, ip address, adding something to multiple run levels is a bit of a pain by hand. For example, I needed to add NFS to my Alpha since I now need to have Linux on my Intel box. The procedure was to rm the Knnnfs and Knnnfsfs links in run levels 2-5 and add Snn links. While the procedure was easy, I messed them up (ln -s ../inetd/nfs S20nfs and ln -s ../inet.d/nfs S99nfsfs). With the run level editor, this is not as error prone. You can see that in the first entry I left out the dot and the second, I linked to the wrong script. System admin tools to not preemt the old way, but they can prevent dumb errors which can be difficult to track down. Purists would say, if you are going to do system admin, you should know what you are doing, but the addition of these tools tend to make Linux easier to install and maintain, so that more non- Unix people can use it more effectively. On 22 Nov 98, at 3:43, Mike Bilow <mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net> wrote: > such as not running servers through inetd that are unneeded. But I think > I would give a slight edge on security to Debian, mainly because there is > an extensive bug tracking process that is open and public. > > -- Mike > > +----------------------------------------------+ Gerald Feldman <gaf at mediaone.net> Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting ICQ#156300 *** Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to discuss-request at blu.org
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