RedHat versus Debian

During the process of switching from RedHat/Fedora to Debian I have found a few commands having mostly the same functionality but different names. This is my list.

RedHat Debian Description
chkconfig update-rc.d command-line tool for maintaining the /etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy
Change the runlevel
  • edit /etc/inittab
  • change
    id:5:initdefault:
    to
    id:3:initdefault:
Remove the display manager from the rc files.
- update-rc.d -f gdm remove (for gnome)
- update-rc.d -f kdm remove (for kde) 		Turn off the GUI login.
- Use Control-Alt-F1 to drop out of X-Windows into a text based console.

Last updated 22 May 2005 by Toby Martin