RH 7.1 atd suddenly fails at startup...what happened?

[Russ Heaton]

Thanks. That was very helpful.  I think I'll give it a go.  I really
don't have anything to lose.  Now I know who to go to if I run into
any problems with it. ;-) ;-)

Thanks again,

Russ


On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:53:41 -0500, you wrote:


>Books tend to be obsolete very quickly (although I guess with Debian's
>release cycle it wouldn't be so big a deal).  I have seen books on
>debian in the past.  www.debian.org does have quite a lot of
>documentation.  #Debian on irc.debian.org has a lot of very active and
>helpful people (including me sometimes) answering questions about how to
>do things.  Every package has it's documentation (and often a debian
>specific README) in /usr/share/doc/packagename/ that can be very helpful
>in figuring out how to set things up.
>
>Basic commands needed to run a debian system efficiently:
>
>apt-get update - updates list of available packages on archvies listed
>		in the /etc/apt/sources.list config file.
>apt-cache search keyword - finds packages that do what you want.
>apt-cache show packagename - shows description of a package
>apt-get install packagename - downloads and installs packagename (and
>		dependancies)
>apt-get remove packagename - removes a package.
>apt-get --purge remove packagename - removes package files and config
>		files.
>apt-get dist-upgrade - upgrades installed packages to newest avilable
>		version (within current release)
>apt-get install --reinstall packagename - reinstalls a package (in case
>		you overwrote some of its files or did something else
>		wrong).
>tasksel - installs a group of packages that do a certain task.  mostly
>		useful for the initial install.  dselect is really never
>		useful anymore (it is a bad interface when the system
>		hits 15000 available packages.  It was ok for 3000).
>update-alternatives --config command - change which of multiple
>		available choices provide a given command (ie vi,
>		editor, x-window-manager, tar, gs, etc.)  All versions
>		of a command are available usually as
>		command-specificversion or command.specific version (ie
>		gs-esp and gs-gnu, or nvi and vim in the case of vi
>		providers.)
>dpkg-reconfigure packagename - asks the questions asked during install
>		again and updates settings for a package.
>		xserver-xfree86 for example to change X settings.
>
>aptitude is an ncurses application that provides a menu interface to do
>all the above (and then some, like auto removal of dependancies when
>nothing else requires them (if they were automatically installed of
>course).
>
>All config files go in /etc, either as /etc/packageconfigfile or
>/etc/packagename/configfiles.  Some defaults for things launched by init
>go in /etc/defaults/packagename.
>
>Time to stop writing before I write a Debian user guide in a single
>email.
>
>Lennart Sorensen

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