Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:04:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <200102201804.f1KI4HG45260@earth.backplane.com> References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <ybupugd2u4n.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <20010220105723.C85542@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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:It would be fairly trivial to monitor a configuration file with kevent,
:which would generate a notice whenever the file is changed/copied/renamed,
:etc. I believe that John-Mark Gurney had patches somewhere to implement
:exactly this for inetd.
:
:The problem is that under our current model, the administrators do not
:expect writes to the file to take immediate effect, and this immediately
:breaks POLA. So while it could be done, it may not be a good idea. At
:the very least, I would argue that it should be hidden behind a flag option.
:--
:Jonathan
I don't even think it's that useful. Lets say you have a daemon (say,
named) that requires several configuration files and you want to
update all of them. Now how do you do it?
I much rather like the idea of an editor-wrapper similar to vipw.
-Matt
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