Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Pre-triggers (as compared to post triggers) were intended to reject
>> additions to cobbler's "DB" if the input wasn't any good.
>>
>> I would speculate no one is using them and this would simply some things
>> if they went away.
>>
>> Just curious.  If we did this it would be done in 1.8
>>     
>
> I'd planned on adding pre triggers to add forward/reverse dns records
> to a certain vendor's[1] dns appliances via xmlrpc. The idea would be
> that adding a system into cobbler with the  --dns-name info for an
> interface would update your dns information. If you're going to remove
> the functionality I should forget the idea though.
>
> [1] http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/
>
>   
That's fine, that's what I wanted to know.

Basically I don't really need to remove it -- but I do want to say that 
manipulating the cobbler API from a pre trigger should be off limits.

This eliminates a place where we have to reload the config.


--Michael

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