From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 4 14:58:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA9637B421; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:58:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g14MfIj71420; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:41:18 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:41:18 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Mike Gratton Cc: andrew.cowan@hsd.com.au, Mike Meyer , Terry Lambert , Juha Saarinen , "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Wilko Bulte , Paul Fardy , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <20020204224118.N5732@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <3C5EA225.8070402@vee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+cfQkLQGU7KOA/8T" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C5EA225.8070402@vee.net>; from mike@vee.net on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:30:53AM +1030 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --+cfQkLQGU7KOA/8T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 co= nf > > files) would be useful. >=20 > I was on the verge of doing so the other day. Basically, I wanted to=20 > have standard configuration data describing the network, services and=20 > service configuration stored in XML and use XSLT to produce which-ever=20 > config files you need. You then introduce some inheritance and allow=20 > configuration to be overridden for particular hosts, subnets, networks,= =20 > and/or platforms, and you have a powerful site-wide configuration=20 > 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 --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --+cfQkLQGU7KOA/8T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxfDg4ACgkQk6gHZCw343XGjACeMJRqoZWI9c/rm6u/s78913pd DHEAnRTttr9t7Lr9DasC1g5pqTyEdU0C =upu6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+cfQkLQGU7KOA/8T-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message