From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 1 15:44:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07120 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:44:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07115 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24866; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:44:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd024844; Wed Jul 1 15:44:08 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA24247; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:44:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807012244.PAA24247@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 22:44:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fullermd@futuresouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <10970.899248855@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 30, 98 04:20:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1. If you want to write a nifty editor for it, you have to now have > _rules_ for clumping all the mountd_foo variables together in > such a way that all "mountd attributes" are editable in a common > block. And this is where vi editable textual configurations fail. We see this in gated, and we see it again in bind 8.x. > 2. This does not deal *explicitly* with ordering issues unless it will > be very well documented that the order in which startup commands are > specified must be maintained (and then, of course, the aformentioned > editor has another thing to remember in writing things back out). > This would be true in your example since portmap, for one, needs to > be run before mountd. Every time I use the ordering example, a friend of mine laughs and points at the "make" program, which was build specifically yto resolve ordered dependency issues. I wouldn't suggest using make for this myself (mostly because then some idiot would insist on it being liked static). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message