I'm transitioning some machines to SL7.x from ancient RHEL 5.x. I am encountering selinux, firewalld, systemd, and other command-line configured tools, which produce many little disconnected XML files, rather than the /etc configuration files I am used to.
I put lots of comments with observations, intent, hints, helpful webpages, and other useful information in my config files, and use those comments to get up to speed years later, when I repair or upgrade those files. This is difficult to do with the *d command-line tools. I would expect there would be something like a "dodo" command, pronounced "dew-dew" (*), an abbreviation for "documented do". This would help document every sudo, timed and in context with every other dodo, per subsystem and in sequence. Syntax errors would be treated separately, FMM(**) corrections aided. This seems like an obvious help tool for sysadmin using the new config-file-free tools, so it probably exists. What is it called? If it does not exist, would someone please earn fame and fortune by writing it? Keith (*) dodo pronounced "dew-dew" indicates cognoscenti who've got their s**t together. Pronounced "doe-doe", like the extinct flightless bird, indicates a clueless newbie. I hope this is an additional incentive to snarky tool writers to write this for me. (**) FMM == frequently made mistakes . I tend to repeat typing errors and other brain-o's. If I make the same mistake a second time, perhaps months later, dodo could offer my prior correction. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
