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Re: The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Subject: Re: The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management
From: Shane Stixrud
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:56:41 -0800 PST
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Shane Stixrud wrote:

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Avi Alkalay wrote:

Yeah, thats because Elektra main goal is not to help sysadmins, but to help
unrelated programs to colaborate automaticaly. this way, helping the
sysadmin is an inevitable consequence.

It seems to me configuration data in an Elektra like format DOES help sysadmins with managing system configuration even without fancy applications. The sysadmin just needs to begin treating configuration data as a series of "command directives" instead big bang application/subsystem file edits.

example:

[snip]

Or even better the following is very readable and easy to edit with a standard text editor IMO.

cfg_mgr --interactive

display -detail /dhcp/sw/dhcpd/subnets/10.202.46.0-24/*

/use-host-decl-names:
   ; Key description
   # User comments go here
   on

/options/log-servers:
   ; Key description
   # User comments go here
   10.202.46.2, 10.202.46.3

/hosts/ws001/fixed-address:
   ; Key description
   # User comments go here
   192.168.0.1

/hosts/ws001/default-lease-time:
   ; Key description
   # User comments go here
   10000

/hosts/ws001/filename:
   ; Key description
   # User comments go here
   /lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-1

/hosts/ws001/hw:
   ; Key description
   # User comments go here
   ethernet:00:11:22:33:44:55

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