> mark wrote: >> >> I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed >> you to dtuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that >> "every OS is different." I'm assuming that means you ran Windows servers, and have >> not yet taken enough time to actually learn how *nix works (Chapter 2 of >> Frisch's book). > > I assumed that he meant some other flavor of unix, since in several > decades they > have not managed to set and follow a standard for administration and the > particular things in question vary wildly across them. But if you've only > used Red Hat style systems - or maybe even SysV it might not be obvious how > quirky they are. > Don't consider them quirky - but then, I've worked in a number of *Nixes, and done admin on Sun, Sun Solaris and Tru64, as well as SuSE and RH, and found the differences relatively trivial, though Unbuntu's a little more irritating. Still, if you understand how it all works, it's more a difference in dialect, not a separate, unrelated language. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos