On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Ed Brown wrote: > Yes, thank you, that is a possible solution, but it seems to me to be > such an extreme workaround: implementing cgi scripts to generate config > files to pass options to a program! > > How many people have done this? How many might not have had to, had > they been able to supply just one or two more parameters on the command > line? > I don't know about how many, but I've done it for a distributed environment. I have a yumconf.rpm that alias's yum to yum -c http://centralserver.lan/yumconf.php?<os designator>&otheroptions=stuff. Then I can swing a whole group of servers to a new repository by just editing yumconf.php on the central server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com "Our political way of life is by the laws of nature, of nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government." John Quincy Adamns
