From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 16 15:01:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B8816A400 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:01:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quetzal@zone3000.net) Received: from mx1.sitevalley.com (sitevalley.com [209.67.60.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1707813C447 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:01:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quetzal@zone3000.net) Received: from zone3000.kharkov.ua (HELO localhost) (217.144.69.37) by 0 with SMTP; 16 Jun 2007 15:01:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:01:55 +0300 From: Nikolay Pavlov To: David Naylor Message-ID: <20070616150155.GA73039@zone3000.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nikolay Pavlov , David Naylor , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <200706161422.56694.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200706161422.56694.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Information handling X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:01:48 -0000 On Saturday, 16 June 2007 at 14:22:50 +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there was any tool available in freebsd for handling > information, specifically configuration files, package information and such. > I know all information is available via text files however in order to access > the information the program might have to hard code the retreval system (not > being able to use a shared library). > > So: > 1) What tools are there for accessing information (i.e. libraries)? > 2) If so is there any unification of the interface? > 3) If no to any of the above, is there a need for such tools and should it be > a unified interface (not just specific subsets)? > > David Hi David. If you want to automate your administrative task your might want to look at puppet or cfengine. -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ======================================================================