Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:35:26 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <20010223073526.F19285@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com> References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <ybupugd2u4n.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote: > >We in the unix world have a well-founded aversion to storing configuration >information in binary data stores that can't be accessed via ed(1) when >the system is in single-user mode. If we wanted to stuff all the system >configuration into such a black hole, we could've done it with DBM data- >bases more than a decade ago, quite easily. You mean like spwd.db? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at FAIR ISLE FAEROES SOUTHEAST ICELAND: NORTH OR NORTHEAST 6 TO GALE 8, DECREASING 4 OR 5, BACKING NORTHWEST AND INCREASING 5 TO 7. WINTRY SHOWERS. GOOD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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