Linux Distributions

[Jerry Feldman]

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
> 
> 


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Gerald Feldman <gaf at mediaone.net>
Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting
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