From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 1 15:46:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07540 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (daemon@smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07512 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:46:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29433; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:46:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd029403; Wed Jul 1 15:46:25 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA24394; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:46:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807012246.PAA24394@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 22:46:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fullermd@futuresouth.com, mike@smith.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807010002.RAA08758@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jun 30, 98 05:02:30 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 > > > It doesn't scale. > > I don't see how. > > You can't use the same information as a template for more than one > system. You also can't validate the value of a field against the values of all other fields it interacts with... not can you associate the validation code with the name/value pairs in the subschema. 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