Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:39:59 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: peter@taronga.com, bmk@fta.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, brantk@atlas.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail Message-ID: <199611270210.MAA05491@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <13469.849034313@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 26, 96 10:51:53 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Not in this particular set of examples, no, but understand that > services have many more options *other* than security which you'd also > eventually want to fold into the same mechanism. To contrive more examples: ... > All of which might be reasonable things to want if you were intending > to write a more robust front-end for a variety of service options. > > Think "big picture", guys. :-) I've been trying to put a useful "big picture" model for this sort of thing together for a while now, as a related issue for the monster config thing we've talked about. The tidiest way of handling this I've seen goes something like this : The "mailer" object, when installed, provides a "mailer-configuration" item to the "network" configuration class, which provides facilities for configuring the mailer. It also provides a "mailer-endisable" function to the "security" class. This function knows how to en/disable the "mailer" in such a fashion that the "mailer-configuration" object can intelligently deal with it. It's not a huge ask, it's just more work that I can't do because I haven't got the basic tools yet. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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