Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 01:30:53 +1030 From: Mike Gratton <mike@vee.net> To: andrew.cowan@hsd.com.au Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1013144385.29174d@mired.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Paul Fardy <pdfardy@mac.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <3C5EA225.8070402@vee.net> References: <NEBBJIKPNGEHLCBOLMDMIEODFPAC.andrew.cowan@hsd.com.au>
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Andrew Cowan wrote: > > However, I have previously thought that a system that used xml files to > store application configs (that would then be used to generate valid conf > files) would be useful. I was on the verge of doing so the other day. Basically, I wanted to have standard configuration data describing the network, services and service configuration stored in XML and use XSLT to produce which-ever config files you need. You then introduce some inheritance and allow configuration to be overridden for particular hosts, subnets, networks, and/or platforms, and you have a powerful site-wide configuration management tool. You get all the usual benefits from using XML as well; data source, processing and output independence, so the configuration data could be use to automatically generate HTML for helpdesk pages, could be sourced from existing a variety of new or pre-existing data repositories (LDAP, CVS, file system, etc.) and could be processed and edited using a number of standard tools. If only I had not run out of time write it, I'd be happily using this today. Mike. -- Mike Gratton <mike@vee.net> "Every motive escalate." Blatant self-promotion: <http://web.vee.net/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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