On 07/10/2011 05:46 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
This is so true - every admin knows the shell - now we have to learn another new bunch ofOn Sat, 2011-07-09 at 23:32 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:On 07/08/2011 10:57 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:Or in other words: configuration via command line arguments or environment variables sucks.I disagree. It doesn't suck. It's the way UNIX and Linux have done this for dozens of years, and it's the way countless sysadmins know and love. "Sucks" might be true from the point of view of "hey look at this great thing I just designed", but it's very much not true from the point of view of the sysadmin working on the weekend who's just thinking "gee, what the heck is going on, why won't this just work how it has done for the past twenty years?". In other words "suck" depends on viewpoint. Jon. stuff - and for what benefits? --
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