From owner-freebsd-config Fri Apr 24 02:51:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06851 for freebsd-config-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from huset.math.ntnu.no (huset.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA06845 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arnej@stud.math.ntnu.no) Message-Id: <199804240951.CAA06845@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 20406 invoked from network); 24 Apr 1998 09:50:58 -0000 Received: from huset.math.ntnu.no (HELO stud.math.ntnu.no) (129.241.211.212) by huset.math.ntnu.no with SMTP; 24 Apr 1998 09:50:58 -0000 To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, allenc@verinet.com, config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Config Databases In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 00:47:27 -0700" References: <4474.893404047@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.54 on Emacs 19.34.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:50:58 +0200 From: Arne Henrik Juul Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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