From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 13 7:59:42 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 E3C2B37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:59:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6894943FAF for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EBC43855; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:58:21 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: "Paul Robinson" , Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:20 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302131558.20627.wes@softweyr.com> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message