Re: Switching to Debian from old Slackware 2.1; orientation?

1997-01-02 Thread Eloy A. Paris
I installed qmail, an alternative to sendmail, on my system by hand, because there is no Debian package yet. So I created a script 'qmail' that starts qmail, if you give it the argument 'start' and stops it if you give the argument 'stop'. I placed the script in /etc/init.d. I want qmail

Re: Switching to Debian from old Slackware 2.1; orientation?

1997-01-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've started upgrading to Debian 1.2 from Slackware Pro 2.1 (yes, very old). Given the difference in distributions and other changes in Linux, I feel quite blind. I don't where everything is and how things work now. Also, I'm not clear on how

Switching to Debian from old Slackware 2.1; orientation?

1996-12-31 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
I've started upgrading to Debian 1.2 from Slackware Pro 2.1 (yes, very old). Given the difference in distributions and other changes in Linux, I feel quite blind. I don't where everything is and how things work now. Also, I'm not clear on how to configure and customize things without screwing