Just curious, but what standard of Unix/Linux are you proposing is the standard? --Chris On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:23:47AM -0600, Brent Clements wrote: > Ok, can someone from redhat answer this question? Why is Redhat changing the > way Unix/Linux works? > > For instance....this new alchemist system they are forcing upon us. For a > long time we could never get our printing system to work on our machines. > What we were doing was creating a printcap file(supposedly just a printcap > file) using the rh printer xconfig program. When we would copy the printcap > file that we just created to other 7.1 machines the printing would never > work. Until after doing alot of troubleshooting we figured out that we would > have to copy the local.adl file from the alchemist directory to each machine > as well... This is a pain! > > I also see in RH 7.2 something that is starting to form called libuser.conf > that from the looks of it will be put into alchemist format. > > Why doesn't RH stay with the normal way of doing things with unix and not > try to change? > > I guess I'm just ranting...thank you for listening. :-) > > -Brent > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list