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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

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