On Fri, 30 May 2003, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote: > > The yum project doesn't appear (to me) to be on the same level > of development complexity as Nagios, so the preprocessor approach > might not be appropriate. I only make the suggestion as an alternative > to help resolve the "less filling" vs. "tastes great" debate. ;) > Smells like sendmail ;-) FWIW, I like ConfigParser(grep, cut, sed -> easy), but will happily deal with XML too. My only 'but' is: Can we use a DTD that's already out there in the world instead of writing a whole new one? Something simple like Apple's plist: http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd -n -- ---------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> computer services specialist uga drama & theatre reality is a moving target ----------------------------------------