Paul Johnson said: > I was thinking wasteful underkill, since you lose flexibility with a > monolithic registry rather than the nice layout of /etc.
some UNIX's do have a form of registry. AIX for example, I remember earlier this year while trying to fix a AIX 4.3.x machine(I forget what the problem was) I made a change to a file in /etc, it was resolv.conf or hosts or nsswitch.conf or something ..and the system ignored the change. it was only when I made the change through SMIT(AIX's admin tool) that the system accepted the change(it has some sort of DB backend..) also, on recent versions of solaris(8 and 9 I think) there is some sort of registry, I remember when playing around in the sun management console, a registry app which fired up and had some sort of database. Not sure what it stored(but they did refer to it as a 'registrty'). I've never had a solaris box not take a setting manually set in /etc yet though unlike that AIX system. AIX is screwed up as it is though, I mean I was shocked to learn to load SSH on startup I had to put it in /etc/inittab! wtf! (maybe that was AIX 4.2..I keep gettin the 2 versions confused) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
