[sles-beta] off: /etc/default vs. /etc/sysconfig

[Simon Flood]

On 27/08/2015 15:03, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> /etc/sysconfig is >>15 years old and available in more or less the same
> form on most distributions.
> /etc/default did come much later from projects coming from Solaris,
> there is no definition for the format of the files, and their are under
> control of RPM.

Note /etc/sysconfig doesn't exist with Ubuntu/Debian which instead use 
/etc/default.

HTH,
Simon
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