Has anything been proposed to standardize on system configuration files for the LSB yet? For instance, I have wondered why more Linux people don't like the /etc/rc.config.d/<configfile> method that HPUX and SuSE use to separate configuration for init scripts from the actual init scripts...
When you have an config file for say the apache init script that reads the /etc/rc.config.d/apache config file to get its startup info you can do things like easilty turn off and on services.. The config script can have things like: # 1=on, 0=off APACHE_HOME=/opt/apache APACHE=1 TOMCAT=0 JSERV=1 And then the init script can use this info to decide what to do.. What this does is the following: 1) elimiates the need to manage,add/delete links in lots of /etc/rc.#d directores to control what starts and stops... 2) Makes it very easy to write tools such as gui programs to allow users to easily control these options since they are in a easy to parse format. There was also an article recently about someone thinking that maybe Linux could standardize on some sort of "registry like" system (as much as I hate the connotation that gives) ... but instead of the way Microsoft does it, use a REAL DIRECOTORY structure consisting of config files and all files using the same XML format. In my mind this is one of the main things that makes it hard to build gui config tools for linux.. no standard way to change the config... you end up writing lots of crazy code to handle different file formats etc.. Just wondering if this is even part of the LSB plan, or not even on the radar. ===== --- Don Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
