Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:48:46 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice Message-ID: <AANLkTinYO%2ByOS3YdzX3arM7hpHR29d3vjpy99P2818Ps@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110304183449.b2b4c1ac.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4D700FA6.1030806@cox.net> <20110304152810.36060288@dijkstra> <20110304183449.b2b4c1ac.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > While I found that generic > UNIX knowledge was applicable everywhere, "Linux knowledge" > was not, as you could see from file names and locations, > procedures, and configuration statements which could not > be transferred 1:1 between the systems. I find that's true even going between "true UNIX" systems, like FreeBSD and Solaris. Maybe it was different back in the SunOS days, but modern Solaris has a lot of very Solaris-specific tools that work in opaque ways; for example, you don't edit links to /etc/init.d anymore, you create an XML service description file and use svcadm to manipulate it in some hidden database. There are still BSD-ish tools in Solaris (and GNU tools, too), but Solaris purists will strongly discourage you from using them.
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