Debian / Ubuntu conf.d crazy

[Collins Richey]

On 6/3/06, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

1. Welcome back from the dark side <grin>
2. Yep, there is a learning curve to the Debian/Ubuntu way, and it
will take a little time.

My most frustrating discovery until I discovered what was going on
related to postgres. After installing postgres 8.0, I couldn't connect
to the database even though postmaster was running. Well it turned out
that the mighty Debian gurus setup postgres 8.0 to listen on a
non-standard port so that postgres <whatever> could be run using the
standard port. Makes sense, but it p****d the hell out of me until I
figured it out.

And yes, the Debian Apache setup is a little strange from a RedHat
point of view, but you'll get past that.

I've been running KDapper for 8 months (?) now, and it's been rock
solid for me even during development. Everything that I need just
works (tm) - Firefox with mplayer and the evil codecs and RealPlayer
and flash stuff anc acroread, Apache, MediaWiki, PHP5, MySQL ??
(latest), Postgres 8.0. Since I don't do mail servers (that's what
gmail is for), I haven't a clue about sendmai/postfix/etc. or bind,
but I'm sure those are ok too.

My only gripe is that most of the effort goes into Gnome, but KDE and
XFCE work pretty well.

Enjoy,

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.