Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:50:58 +0200 From: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@stud.math.ntnu.no> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, allenc@verinet.com, config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Config Databases Message-ID: <199804240951.CAA06845@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 00:47:27 -0700" References: <4474.893404047@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > problem: how is the user supposed to know he made a mistake ? You ca > > He'll know it pretty conclusively, I think, when the change he just > made mysteriously has no effect whatsoever and doesn't show up in the > file. :) Speaking as a long-term system administrator, this is the most stupid suggestion I've ever heard, and using a thing like this would make me wish for Windows. (hmmm... that's about the max-value on my flame- thrower I think :-) > Succeeding silently and using secret knowledge of the file format to > tack in comments also strikes me as a cute but ultimately untenable > workaround, so I really do vote for the simpler approach. This *might* be OK. If you want to do a "simpler approach" I'd say it's better to make the configfs files read-only until there is something in place that can report errors in a sensible way. - Arne H. J. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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