Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 22:44:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: fullermd@futuresouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Message-ID: <199807012244.PAA24247@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <10970.899248855@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 30, 98 04:20:55 pm
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> 1. If you want to write a nifty editor for it, you have to now have > _rules_ for clumping all the mountd_foo variables together in > such a way that all "mountd attributes" are editable in a common > block. And this is where vi editable textual configurations fail. We see this in gated, and we see it again in bind 8.x. > 2. This does not deal *explicitly* with ordering issues unless it will > be very well documented that the order in which startup commands are > specified must be maintained (and then, of course, the aformentioned > editor has another thing to remember in writing things back out). > This would be true in your example since portmap, for one, needs to > be run before mountd. Every time I use the ordering example, a friend of mine laughs and points at the "make" program, which was build specifically yto resolve ordered dependency issues. I wouldn't suggest using make for this myself (mostly because then some idiot would insist on it being liked static). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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