Sunday, March 14, 2004
Differences between Redhat and Fedora
I've just found the following differences, between my Redhat and Fedora machines. I'm sure there are more, which I'll post as I find them.
1/ Network config files (ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1) have moved. On RH they can be found under /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices but on Fedora htey are under /etc/sysconfig/metworking/network-scripts.
This is a bit confusing as it now mixes scripts with config data. I think I prefered the old (RH) way.
2/ DHCP Information about the process id and leases for DHCP used to be stored in /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.pid and /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd0-eth0.info
These files ave been replaced in Fedora with /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid and /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases.
This change makes a lot of sense as the data is'nt really configuration related (which the /etc directory is used for) but is specific to the running machine.
I've just found the following differences, between my Redhat and Fedora machines. I'm sure there are more, which I'll post as I find them.
1/ Network config files (ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1) have moved. On RH they can be found under /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices but on Fedora htey are under /etc/sysconfig/metworking/network-scripts.
This is a bit confusing as it now mixes scripts with config data. I think I prefered the old (RH) way.
2/ DHCP Information about the process id and leases for DHCP used to be stored in /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.pid and /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd0-eth0.info
These files ave been replaced in Fedora with /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid and /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases.
This change makes a lot of sense as the data is'nt really configuration related (which the /etc directory is used for) but is specific to the running machine.