Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:29:34 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew@reilly.home> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, fullermd@futuresouth.com, pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Message-ID: <3598F64C.2AA4FF3F@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> References: <199806271900.MAA15753@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199806282320.QAA14794@usr07.primenet.com> <19980629162434.A20703@reilly.home>
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Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 11:20:11PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> ? ? ? What do you mean Jordan? A windows style registry? LDAP?
> ?
> ? If nothing else, it would be truly worthwhile to sit down with the
> ? schema information from Cisco, Ascend, Livingston, and others, and
> ? just go through FreeBSD to see if it can do everything and keeps all
> ? the relevent statistics, etc., that the schema's claim the other
> ? boxes can do. It would be a heck of an easy process, and it would
> ? yield a list of places in FreeBSD where statistics should be kept
> ? and aren't being kept, as well as more than a handful of new features
> ? that probably wouldn't be that hard to implement. 8-).
>
> Sorry for leaping into this late, (and consequently getting the
> wrong people on the To: line), but what's the "90's" way of handling
> the genuinely script-like things in /etc? I can see how a unified
> parameter/value store would be a great advance for most things,
> but how do you do:
>
> /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.foo, the script that is executed by the !bg
> line at the bottom of your ppp.linkup file.
>
> /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly}
>
> ?
>
We must have two-side mapping between scripts and config DB.
scripts ?-> configDB
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> Andrew
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