Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:05:18 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extend the rc interface for configuration Message-ID: <4429B31E.2010803@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4426B641.7030203@erdgeist.org> References: <4426B641.7030203@erdgeist.org>
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Dirk Engling wrote: > Dear rc-hackers, > > in my understanding the rc.d interface is a generic abstraction of > common actions you want to perform on server software. Alas, such is not the case. You can get more information at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html > When administrating lots of servers of different type I stumbled accross > many configuration actions that were similar, for example > adding/removing virtual hosts and users for my mail/ web/ ftp/ name/ > jabber-server, configuring ports, logfiles, ssl-ports + certs/ keys etc. There are already excellent tools to deal with the class of problems you describe, the most popular being cfengine. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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