Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Administration - commands or files?

2009-03-30 Thread Darren Reed
Peter Tribble wrote: So, a question for the weekend: When administering something, do you prefer to issue a bunch of commands to set configuration parameters, or edit a configuration file that the thing can read? It depends on the application. If I've got files then I can do version contro

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Administration - commands or files?

2009-03-30 Thread Tim Bradshaw
On 27 Mar 2009, at 23:00, Peter Tribble wrote: So, a question for the weekend: When administering something, do you prefer to issue a bunch of commands to set configuration parameters, or edit a configuration file that the thing can read? A couple of basic prerequisites for any kind of con

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Administration - commands or files?

2009-03-30 Thread Mykola Maslov
So, a question for the weekend: When administering something, do you prefer to issue a bunch of commands to set configuration parameters, or edit a configuration file that the thing can read? (Where edit doesn't necessarily mean vi or emacs, but could also mean the automated generation of a co