Debian / Ubuntu conf.d crazy

[James McDonald]

I made a small boo boo the other night when trying to increase the size 
of a logical volume to include the old windows xp partition I no longer needed to refer to. 
Needless to say I have had to completely rebuild the box... sigh.

Anyway I thought why not try Ubuntu for a while since I have become such 
a RH/Fedora devotee that I wouldn't mind seeing how the other half live, 
so to speak.

Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper is a good operating system from my view point. It 
appears to have a greater selection of packages than FC5 by default and 
I much prefer apt to the "Yee UltraLongTimeToInstallAnything Package 
Manager"

However the Debian roots of the systems means the config files for a 
package are split into half a dozen files located in a conf.d directory.

This is annoying! By the time one has fgrepped to find the correct file 
to edit one thinks that a monolithic conf file would have been much 
easier to maintain. In the process of debianizing a package I found 
missing configuration variables that only existed in the samples located 
in /usr/share/doc/<packagename> 

I am talking about /etc/apache2 and /etc/amavis as examples...

There are advantages to splitting your conf files up I suppose but right 
now I can't think of many

>From a system administration point of view I think RH/Fedora is 
providing a more unified set of tools. chkconfig seems to be a bit less 
obscure to use than update-rc.d.

I think in another few months I will be acclimatized and will probably 
be happy with either but the first few nights trying to get back everything 
one had is a learning curve.
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