On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:17:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the advantage of this over something like "START=yes" or > > "START=no" in the /etc/default/foobar file? > > I tried to cover that in my message but probably didn't elaborate > sufficiently. Modifying a setting in the default file requires editing > the default file, preserving other settings, and so forth. In other > words, it requires at least a one-line sed command and some thought and is > more complex than a simple touch command. > > We want something simple that can easily be handled by configuration > management systems like Puppet and which doesn't require cutting and > pasting a command or installing a local script for a junior administrator > to do. Saying "touch /etc/noldap" is easy to explain and easy to get > monitoring software to do. > Sounds reasonable. I guess since I admin only a relatively small number of machines, I don't tend to think of scalability as one of the first things.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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