From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 12 10:28:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6077B37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org (melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org [62.212.105.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA3043FA3 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:28:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org) Received: by melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C1DFA2C3D2; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:28:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:28:52 +0100 From: Thomas Quinot To: Garrett Wollman 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> Reply-To: Thomas Quinot References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302112310.h1BNAUBS019097@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200302112310.h1BNAUBS019097@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: WARNING! Using Outlook can damage your computer. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message