[Cialug] debian sarge

David Champion dave at visionary.com
Fri Jun 3 15:04:01 CDT 2005


Porsche = fancy Volkswagen.

BMW's didn't have cup holders until very recently. Not that I can afford 
one. I drive a fancy Honda Civic (aka: Acura Integra). It has cup holders.

-dc

Theron Conrey wrote:
> my volkswagon has cupholder..............well, sortof.
> 
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 
>> I've never seen a porsche that didn't have cup holders..
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 11:44, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> It's just a convenience.  Debian is a car without built-in cupholders.
>>> Hmmm, must be German.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Champion [mailto:dave at visionary.com] Sent: Friday, June 
>>> 03, 2005 11:44 AM
>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] debian sarge
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The service command is just a script, it could easily be used on a 
>>> Debian system.
>>>
>>> Really all it does is saves you a small amount of typing.
>>>
>>> service httpd restart
>>>
>>> ... is similar to typing:
>>>
>>> /etc/init.d/httpd restart
>>>
>>> ... I did the latter for a long time before I discovered the service 
>>> script (or before the service script existed).
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
>>> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Yeah, the redhat service command is handy. I also prefer the way 
>>>> redhat configures the networking.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:37, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> It was you who showed me the light.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was pretty stuck on redhat based distros (that service command is 
>>>>> handy) until you showed us MythTV setup with Debian.  Of course the 
>>>>> Sarge installation helps too.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Theron Conrey [mailto:theron at conrey.org]
>>>>> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:40 AM
>>>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] debian sarge
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *cough* PRIMATIVE?!?!??!? if I had a vine I'd swing over 
>>>>> there....... :) Theron
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll be interested too, I'm trying Debian on a couple machines as 
>>>>>> well
>>>>>> and it is a little more clean (primitive?) than things like 
>>>>>> fedora, mepis and ubuntu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Dan Hockey [mailto:icepuck2k at mchsi.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:29 PM
>>>>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>>>> Subject: [Cialug] debian sarge
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I installed a working base system of sarge today :-) ,and now I'm
>>>>>> trying
>>>>>> to figure out how to start and stop background services from the 
>>>>>> command line. Is there something else I need to install to do 
>>>>>> this? I managed to install smb,cups, and apache. This is my first 
>>>>>> working install of debian so pardon some of the lame debian 
>>>>>> questions I'll be asking.
>>>>>> -dh




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