From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 22 13:27:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15923 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:27:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bryggen.bgnett.no (bryggen.bgnett.no [194.54.96.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15917 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erik@habatech.no) Received: from HABAWKS (4pogc-gw.online.no [194.248.199.142]) by bryggen.bgnett.no (8.8.8/8.8.5/brage2.1) with SMTP id VAA23807; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:26:13 GMT Message-ID: <00c601be464d$bb537eb0$8101a8c0@HABAWKS> From: "Erik H. Bakke" To: "Joerg B. Micheel" , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" , "Mike Nguyen" Cc: Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:22:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0707.2700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0707.2700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 05:58:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> Mike Nguyen writes: >> consolidating all that config information in one place, such as >> /etc/rc.conf, would be a good thing. > >Agreed, it really isn't such a good idea to clutter /etc/ with all >those single line configuration files. > How about having one file in /etc containing all the different configuration options, and have this file processed by a program to generate all the different configuration files. This would give us the benefits of a centralized configuration file, without the need of rewriting the many programs that really want to have their configuration in specific files. On the other hand, this would require a reprocessing of the file for each modification to the configuration. Maybe we could run the command at the beginning of /etc/rc, and allow a user with root privileges to rerun the command at any time to rescan the configuration? It would require a minimum of effort to implement this, so I hope this is not too simple for us. Regards --- Erik H. Bakke Habatech AS erik@habatech.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message