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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