[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:59:59PM +0000, Joel wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:57:40PM +0000, Steve Nelson wrote:
> > > I'm still not used to the RedHat way of configuring the computer 
> > 
> > What - editing config files? ;-)
> 
> I'd imagine he means the festering mess that is /etc/sysconfig, coupled
> with the annoying reliance on 'service', 'chkconfig' etc.

Absolutely.  The configuration file/script system on Red Hat is bloody
poorly designed.  Tellingly, most of it is designed to be parsed and
written by interactive config tools rather than edited directly.  Trying
to trace all the dependencies is not fun.  It's a mess.

-- 
Bruce

I am now a little wary of bananas.
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