On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:16:14PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:58 +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> > The end goal ("configure everything via LDAP") is no doubt a worthy
> > goal, I don't disagree with that at all. But if it can be achieved by
> > writing one simple tool
>
> Because it's not that simple for the user experience that at least I
> think is right.
s/simple tool/tool with single specific purpose/. This is standard Unix
philosophy.
You're not making the case that httpd itself needs to be more "cluster
aware" or whatever. Your "user story" is great and warm and fuzzy, and
can be achieved, AFAICS, by writing a tool which generates httpd
configurations, and IMAP server configuration, and whatever, based on
some LDAP database. That tool can do all the tricky stuff like having a
daemon which polls the LDAP database for changes, knowing when to
restart httpd into a new configuration, and knowing how to map a
particular LDAP schema into an specific httpd configuration; it can
easily scale to supporting lots of different daemons since it's
basically the same logic for each. That can all be done without
destabilizing the codebases of all the daemons you want to support.
Regards,
joe
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