From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 13 8:17:16 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 B6E2D37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:17:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3675143FBD for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:17:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0083.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.83] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18jM2t-0005c3-00; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:17:08 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4BC495.E3A2FB66@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:15:17 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Robinson Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4b6cd8c3bd68b133761b428bb5c8b4b24548b785378294e88350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 Paul Robinson wrote: > On a more serious note, the only way this system would work completely is if > there were some trigger mechanism after editing the file. kqueue. But there are hard/soft service dependencies that arise out of file dependencies, and there's no notification for those, so you pretty much end up screwed. You *really* do not want to go around shooting "bind" in the head, like the "Life Magazine" cover shot of the Khymer Rouge; if you end up with a ton of dependencies, then you end up with a huge accumulated delay, any time there's a state change. It's no good. Cached Data Considered Harmful (and all that). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message