From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 13 8:22:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3301637B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B4C43FBF for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:22:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0083.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.83] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18jM7w-0006Y2-00; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:22:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4BC5D2.3BD12EF2@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:20:34 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: Paul Robinson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) References: <200302131558.20627.wes@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4b6cd8c3bd68b13371091c3c4edb94d593ca473d225a0f487350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 Wes Peters wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:05, Paul Robinson wrote: > > Oh, that's easy. What you do to keep two views of the same information > > consistent, is keep all the data in an SQL database, and then just > > software that pulls the information out into the two different formats, > > and pushes the data back in on changes! So, what we do is put all the > > config information into mySQL and insist it ships as standard on every > > box! :-) > > You'd be absolutely astonished at the number of embedded BSD systems that > have come to exactly this conclusion, only they were all smart enough to > choose PostgreSQL instead. Or gdbm (with appropriate hazmat suits) or something they rolled themselves, etc.. It's a common problem that the OS vendors are unwilling to address, such that it never has to be addressed again. --- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message