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 configuration file via any means. In fact, normally
the automated way rather than the by hand way.)
I mainly prefer config files. You could tune whatever you want, and after
reboot there is more chanses that software will be up and running.
With CLI commands you have to implement scripts, that`s nice too - but not that
obviuos for me.
But in general - yes, there are both nice and bad implementations of either
configs/CLI.
NIC configs in linux is nice (config files), zones config in Solaris is nice
(CLI)
I leave pointing bad things to yous liking :)
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With respect,
Nik Maslov
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