-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote:
>Let's be serious, what is wrong with a tool that does everything? We were >all brought up on .conf files, we learn them, know them, etc. But >really.....why the necessity? Why try to remember the syntax of every single >.conf file? With 10 + services running at least it IS NOT easy to remember >where everything goes for the occasional administrator or newbie. The real strength of conf files is the ability to include comments and examples. I make a habit of adding comments to conf files that do not include them by default. On systems where a junior admin may have fly solo I am very generous with comments that explain my reasons for setting things up a certain way. My own comments have come in handy when I've needed to change things around leaving them alone for a while. Try that with a GUI. > Ticking boxes in the other non-operating system I won't >mention causes things to go in one database called the registry. Really the >registry is just one big database of config files. We never bother trying to >read the registry, because it's almost as confusing as some config files. Okay, sendmail.cf is opaque, but it's not supposed to be hand-edited. The source mc file is a lot more readable, as it should be. Now compare smb.conf or http.conf to the the equivalent settings in the Windows registry. When editing crontab, the first thing I do is add the format as an example. With some other files, I comment out the default setting and add my own setting immediately below it, sometimes with a comment explaining why I changed the default. If you don't take advantage of the ability to use comments, you're missing out on an important feature and just making things hard on yourself and whoever else may need to maintain the box. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE8R6E3pCpg3WyUI50RAor1AJ9vY6/Pv3n0vrMBoy4Ga4xKpMmF4QCfZiPR XuJZ1o2RgvYzmYrmvGjOqyQ= =AWMv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
