[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan Coopersmith writes: > > Yann POUPET wrote: > > > > Thus maybe writing config files with an XML format would help ? > > > > > > Furthermore, as I said before, there may be a lot of config files. > > > Why not have ALL configuration into a single file ? That could be a hash, > > > a > > berkeleydb file (I think E17 uses such files for conf), or whatever. (isn't > > it the way MS Win does with is registry ?) > > > For files needed by everyone, this file would be /config (or /etc/config), > > for personnal config that could be ~/config. Thus only two locations for all > > configs. > > > > Now that's starting to sound a lot like the SMF properties database. > > SMF was designed to help unify system/service configuration. It isn't > used to its full capabilities there yet, but expect to see more Solaris > system and service configuration moving into the SMF repository (also known > as SCF).
Is this wise ? AIX already is well known for having all-controlling, all-seeing, all-knowing "smit" - which is a serious pain and cannot be avoided easily. I would really think twice before inflicting similar pain to Solaris admins. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
