Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:41:18 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Mike Gratton <mike@vee.net> Cc: andrew.cowan@hsd.com.au, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1013144385.29174d@mired.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Paul Fardy <pdfardy@mac.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <20020204224118.N5732@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <3C5EA225.8070402@vee.net>; from mike@vee.net on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:30:53AM %2B1030 References: <NEBBJIKPNGEHLCBOLMDMIEODFPAC.andrew.cowan@hsd.com.au> <3C5EA225.8070402@vee.net>
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:30:53AM +1030, Mike Gratton wrote:
> > However, I have previously thought that a system that used xml files to
> > store application configs (that would then be used to generate valid conf
> > files) would be useful.
>
> I was on the verge of doing so the other day. Basically, I wanted to
> have standard configuration data describing the network, services and
> service configuration stored in XML and use XSLT to produce which-ever
> config files you need. You then introduce some inheritance and allow
> configuration to be overridden for particular hosts, subnets, networks,
> and/or platforms, and you have a powerful site-wide configuration
> management tool.
Great minds and all that:
http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/xml-servers/
I'm going to try and do a 5 minute 'Work in Progress' on this at BSDCon
next week if anyone's interested.
Feel free to take that as a starting point.
N
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