From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 20 19: 6:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4041737B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:06:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9164543FA3 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:06:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <200302210306280020033d7fe>; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:06:28 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA45191; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:06:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:06:25 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Garrett Wollman Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: config files and includes. In-Reply-To: <200302210301.h1L31KQh007756@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > What would be really cool is if more config files could > > do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf > > wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it > > look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for > > packages. > > Well, it's a trivial part of XML but the syntax is twisted. The > problem is that, particularly in the case of something like > syslog.conf, you need to change the defaults, not just supplement > them. Right now syslog has no concept of this (and changing the > notation doesn't help without a complete rethink of the syslog.conf > semantics). Worthwhile, but a lot of work for which nobody will be > grateful (instead they will all complain that you changed the format > of the file). of course.. New functionality vs POLA. An age old conflict. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message