On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:02:36 +0300 Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote:
> > There's nothing to be stunned about. Some of the features you > proposed clearly call for a preprocessor. Namely: > > define(`inetd-daemons',`&ftpd,&telnetd') # alias the inetd daemons > define(`danger',`=crit,=err') > define(`most',`*,!auth,!authpriv') > > Do you *really* think it is that difficult to write these three > defines??? you proved that m4 doesn't need to be cryptic. however, the problem is in the pre-processing. we are talking about syslog.conf and not about gigs of log files in /var/log. pre-processing creates a level of indirectness and maintenance complexity that i find unsuitable for this simple problem. i go the *nix way: 'keep it simple!' also, i'd like to keep things in the common places, if possible. best wishes, MeloDramus <melodra...@online.de>
