From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 3 16:18:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A86137B40D for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nextgig-8.customer.nethere.net ([209.132.102.168] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17F15N-0008OT-00; Mon, 03 Jun 2002 17:18:01 -0600 Message-ID: <3CFBF959.B6BF5E08@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:18:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group Cc: Terry Lambert , Daniel Blankensteiner , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign References: <200206021630.g52GUTr1050616@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <3CF7E342.C351A12E@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > > Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > > > > > > I'm also taling about config files. > > > > Seperate config files is a bad idea. We tolerate it now because > > a lot of things wouldn't fit into rc.conf (like the sendmail > > configuration data). For things that can, they should. Your > > examples were all things that can. I don't understand the > > benefit of breaking them up, except to have more files to worry > > about, and more things that need to be writeable (or symlinked > > and moved, when / isn't writeable). > > IBM's ODM gives you the best of both worlds, a centrally managed > database which generates our beloved files. The AIX team here has yet > to see it break but they shudder to think what they'd do if it did. They haven't been around long enough then. I used to explode the ODM on AIX 3.1.5 on a daily basis. I would've been much fonder of ODM back then if IBM had actually bothered to produce some readable documentation on it; it is a good system once they stabilized it around AIX 3.2.3 or so. > Ideally what I would like to see is a port of Tivoli to FreeBSD. Sorry, Unisys wouldn't let us get away with that. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message