Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 09:30:29 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Daniel Blankensteiner <db@traceroute.dk>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign Message-ID: <200206021630.g52GUTr1050616@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> of "Fri, 31 May 2002 13:55:30 PDT." <3CF7E342.C351A12E@mindspring.com>
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In message <3CF7E342.C351A12E@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes:
> Daniel Blankensteiner wrote:
> > From: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
> > To: "Daniel Blankensteiner" <db@traceroute.dk>
> > > I also think it's bad to put things under /etc, since I think
> > > /etc should be read-only. I think that eventually, we will
> > > see all such things live under /var.
> >
> > I am only talk about config files, the binaries and log should not be in
> > here.
>
> I'm also taling about config files.
>
> Seperate config files is a bad idea. We tolerate it now because
> a lot of things wouldn't fit into rc.conf (like the sendmail
> configuration data). For things that can, they should. Your
> examples were all things that can. I don't understand the
> benefit of breaking them up, except to have more files to worry
> about, and more things that need to be writeable (or symlinked
> and moved, when / isn't writeable).
IBM's ODM gives you the best of both worlds, a centrally managed
database which generates our beloved files. The AIX team here has yet
to see it break but they shudder to think what they'd do if it did.
Ideally what I would like to see is a port of Tivoli to FreeBSD.
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