On 4/2/06, Shane Stixrud shane@geeklords.org wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Callum Lerwick wrote:
Fedora's own /etc/sysconfig hierarchy is a good example of how config files can be brain dead simple, hand editable and GUI configurable.
Awww we agree! Considering that ALL of RedHat's sysconfig config files are basically KEYS with values how could I not? If you give sysconfig a bit more structure (directories), have the directory names themselves be part of the syntax/semantics and standardized the creation/removal/modification/searching and querying of these files in the form of a library we end up with....... Elektra
And /etc/sysconfig is RH-specific only, as far as I know. At least the semantics inside each /etc/sysconfig file. And they imply spliting the configurations of some programs in two parts. For example, ntpd has the /etc/ntp.conf and the /etc/sysconfig/ntpd files. This happens precisely because is very difficult to change these software configurations directly on their files, so distros were forced to create a secondary file and a separate whole scripting system to handle them too.