Re: Curious question

Hi Adam and everyone:

I note the number of systems that you worked with.
What a pain.

Just stick to one and be done with it.

Tony

--- Adam Bultman <adamb@glaven.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Tony wrote:
>
> > Hi Adam and everyone:
> >
> > Explanation of coding
> >
> > An example of linux coding would be the directory
> > where apache works off. In Red Hat, it is located
> at
> > /var/www/html while in SuSE 10.1 it is at
> > /srv/www/htdocs.
> >
> > So if I wrote a script for Red Hat and wanted to
> use
> > it in SuSE, I have to change all the directories.
> >
>
> I don't want to be an insufferable nitpick, but
> 'scripting' isn't
> 'coding'. If you talk to some IT person about how
> you were 'coding' last
> night, they will assume you were programming (C,
> C++, java,
> smalltalk, etc).
>
> Scripting across the various flavors of linux is a
> bit of a painb ecause
> they DO put things in different places. A quick way
> to take care of that
> is to put a switch in that lets you choose your path
> based on what flavor
> of linux you're running. I've done this for
> chkrootkit before - compile it
> for different flavors and versions of linux and then
> have the script check
> which flavor it is, and run the one it should. It's
> a little extra work,
> but you'll save yourself by only needing to have ONE
> copy in CVS, and
> it'll run across all your different boxes.
>
> It IS a pain, but it IS managable. Ideally, yoiu'd
> haev the same flavor
> and version of linux across the board. But, that
> doesn't always work out -
> at my last job, we had RH6.2, RH7.3, RH9, FC1, FC2,
> FC3, RHEL3, RHEL4, and
> Centos4.
>
> Your insufferable, pedantic nitpick,
> Adam
>
>

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Received on Wed Sep 6 09:36:21 2006