Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:20 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Paul Robinson" <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <200302131558.20627.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <IPEDKJGCDFHOPEFKLIDHKEENCCAA.paul@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <IPEDKJGCDFHOPEFKLIDHKEENCCAA.paul@iconoplex.co.uk>
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On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:05, Paul Robinson wrote:
> Alexander wrote:
> > How do you want to solve the problem of:
> > - T1: a human edited /etc/rc.conf without updating the .xml
> > - T2: someone else (or the same human) uses the GUI to change
> > something --> the hand edited change in rc.conf is lost
>
> Oh, that's easy. What you do to keep two views of the same information
> consistent, is keep all the data in an SQL database, and then just
> software that pulls the information out into the two different formats,
> and pushes the data back in on changes! So, what we do is put all the
> config information into mySQL and insist it ships as standard on every
> box! :-)
You'd be absolutely astonished at the number of embedded BSD systems that
have come to exactly this conclusion, only they were all smart enough to
choose PostgreSQL instead.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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