Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:16:35 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD current users" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: config files and includes. Message-ID: <001f01c2d957$a44ff1c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302201905300.43932-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > <<On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:39:33 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> 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. Isn't POLA the reason why people gave up trying to extend the old standards (like syslogd and inetd) and decided to build new feature-rich daemons like msyslog and xinetd? -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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