On Jul 13, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Jason S wrote:
> I think my biggest problem with Red Hat and its cousins is that they
> scatter
> all the config information into hundreds of config files.  A simple
> change
> might involve changing 10 different files, and chances are half aren't
> even
> in the /etc directory.  There is a GUI config util for everything that
> will
> change all the right files for you, but then you're stuck using Red
> Hat's
> idea of a config tool instead of being able to use your favourite text
> editor or even write your own tool.

Could you give concrete examples of this "not in /etc anyway" thing?

I can't find any key configuration files on ANY of my Linux systems
(RedHat 9.0, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, SuSE, and Debian) that
aren't in /etc that should really be tinkered with at all.

In fact, most RedHat variants after 7.3 had everything in
/etc/sysconfig , something most distros don't have.

Most distros started supporting the FHS standards in 2001/2002 and
rarely do you find configuration files NOT in /etc.

Perhaps you're going about whatever you were trying to do, wrong.

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