> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To who it may concern, >> >> I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. >> I use >> BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like >> to >> increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD. >> >> In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was >> introduced. >> Basically what it does, is take all the rc.d scripts and puts them >> into >> a database to manage. Everything is converted to XML > > XML is good at document processing and for portable self-describing > databases. Otherwise, I would think significantly less of any OS (or > application) that used XML for configuration data. At least nothing > that anyone would *every* be forced to edit manually. > > But of course the format of data in a database is largely > irrelevant. > You could implement the same thing with dbm files or a more > forgiving > text format. > > As for getting rid of rc.d scripts, yes they're decrepit and I would > love to see them go but they're simple and third party software may > depend on them being the norm. > > Just my 2c, > Mike > > PS: I'm not a FreeBSD "hacker" or even an admin. > _______________________________________________
I believe the puppet project has a lot of potential, or if not the project then at least the ideas behind it, in regard to automating administrative tasks. I particularly like the way it allows the automation of the same tasks across different operating systems. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ Cheers, Tim. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
