Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:28:52 +0100 From: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: wes@softweyr.com, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <20030212182852.GA94317@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200302112310.h1BNAUBS019097@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302112310.h1BNAUBS019097@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Le 2003-02-12, Garrett Wollman écrivait :
> Before starting on this I wanted to take up a somewhat easier task,
> like inetd, which is also crying for relief from its kluge-encrusted
> historical syntax.
I am generally uneasy with such proposals, which would make FreeBSD
incompatible with estblished practice of other *nix systems. I always
found AIX's /etc/filesystems and RedHat's /etc/xinetd.* annoying,
because their syntax is gratuitously different from time-honored
standards.
The benefit of such changes is often unclear; configuration files should
be easy to read and modify for a human user. Whether or not they are
easy to parse is irrelevant once the parser is written. :)
Thomas.
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