Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:06:39 +1000 (EST) From: "Tim Clewlow" <tim@clewlow.org> To: "Michael B Allen" <ioplex@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, wbentley@futurecis.com Subject: Re: Idea for FreeBSD Message-ID: <52107.192.168.1.10.1218081999.squirrel@192.168.1.100> In-Reply-To: <78c6bd860808061934l133d8ca6nabbde8cd55cb1d27@mail.gmail.com> References: <b58b3fc7f4a07c9b6d55741e2ec25f47.squirrel@secure.futurecis.com> <78c6bd860808061934l133d8ca6nabbde8cd55cb1d27@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <wbentley@futurecis.com> wrote: >> To who it may concern, >> >> I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. >> I use >> BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like >> to >> increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD. >> >> In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was >> introduced. >> Basically what it does, is take all the rc.d scripts and puts them >> into >> a database to manage. Everything is converted to XML > > XML is good at document processing and for portable self-describing > databases. Otherwise, I would think significantly less of any OS (or > application) that used XML for configuration data. At least nothing > that anyone would *every* be forced to edit manually. > > But of course the format of data in a database is largely > irrelevant. > You could implement the same thing with dbm files or a more > forgiving > text format. > > As for getting rid of rc.d scripts, yes they're decrepit and I would > love to see them go but they're simple and third party software may > depend on them being the norm. > > Just my 2c, > Mike > > PS: I'm not a FreeBSD "hacker" or even an admin. > _______________________________________________ I believe the puppet project has a lot of potential, or if not the project then at least the ideas behind it, in regard to automating administrative tasks. I particularly like the way it allows the automation of the same tasks across different operating systems. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ Cheers, Tim.
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