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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: config files and includes.
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<<On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:39:33 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> said:

> What would be really cool is if more config files could
> do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf
> wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it
> look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for
> packages.

Well, it's a trivial part of XML but the syntax is twisted.  The
problem is that, particularly in the case of something like
syslog.conf, you need to change the defaults, not just supplement
them.  Right now syslog has no concept of this (and changing the
notation doesn't help without a complete rethink of the syslog.conf
semantics).  Worthwhile, but a lot of work for which nobody will be
grateful (instead they will all complain that you changed the format
of the file).

-GAWollman


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