On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:59:05AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:01:42AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:00:49AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > No. It is no configuration file if it is not static. > > The FHS defines "static" as: > > "Static" files include binaries, libraries, documentation files and > > other files that do not change without system administrator > > intervention. "Variable" files are files that are not static. > > > > The system administrator runs ovs-vsctl to change > > /etc/openvswitch/conf.db. > > You forget all virtualization stuff. There no admin intervention is > used.
Is the argument that if a file is ever modified other than directly by the administrator it is not a configuration file? > > > How does modifying this file with an editor work? > > It's somewhat challenging, because you have to calculate a sha1sum with > > the sha1sum program, and the format isn't really intended for direct > > human editing. But, as I said before (you dropped the quote), I do not > > see anything in 10.7 that says that the administrator must be able to > > edit a configuration file with a text editor. > > So it is not meant to be modified by a user. Is the format of a file relevant to determining if it is a configuration file or not? > > > How does it survive read-only /etc? > > If you have read-only /etc, then you can't modify your configuration, in > > the same way you can't modify other parts of your configuration. > > conf.db is open read-write by ovsdb-server. > > Bastian > > -- > Deflector shields just came on, Captain. > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > d...@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
