Config files are the problem

Config files are the problem

Posted Mar 20, 2003 9:08 UTC (Thu) by hisdad (subscriber, #5375)
Parent article: A quick look at Gentoo Linux

I'm a beginning Gentoo user and I like the promise of configurability.
This is also the problem.

After emerging these packages there is no way of setting up the services so they 'just work'. Samba installs with no smb.conf file, for example.

Worse is that the results depend on your USE flags.
I accidently emerged samba with ldap support and was completely unable
even to setup a user and password!

I had to change the flags and re-emerge it before I could get a samba
that I could use.

it needs to come with some magic webmin with a 'read my lips: make it work'
button.

Regards
Hisdad

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