Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:27:25 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Message-ID: <199806241627.JAA08258@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:36:27 -0600 (MDT) >From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> >The "database" should be ASCII, and lean (like rc.conf, resolv.conf, etc., >etc.). I don't see why you would need to cahnge any of these type files. If folks interested in such things haven't done so already, I recommend that y'all take a look at the "RDB" package, by Walt Hobbs, at ftp.rand.org. It's a bunch of Perl scripts that work with flat ASCII files; the model is that a "database" is implemented as a file; "records" are terminated by newline characters; and "fields" are separated by tabs. Thus, if the supplied Perl scripts don't quite do what you want, you can easily use standard UNIX text-manipulation tools; you can also cobble up more Perl code. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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