On Thursday 11 January 2007 09:56 am, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > >> LDAP is nice organizing across many systems, but if you are just > >> dealing with one computer it is complete over kill for any thing. > > > > In that situation, it's not merely overkill, it's may actually be a > > bad idea. Can you say "AIX SDR"? How about "Windows registry"? > > > > Those system both took the approach of putting all the configuration > > information in a central database. This creates problems because the > > tools needed to examine/fix the config database require a complex > > environment - at least compared to a statically linked copy of > > ed. LDAP may not be so bad, but it still makes me nervous. > > > > On the other hand, if you've got a flock of boxes to manage, having a > > way to tell the rc subsystem "Go read config values from this LDAP > > server" seems like a very attractive alternative. > > And to think, all these years I've been wasting my time and effort > using NFS and rsync to centralize the configurations of server farms.
I think (Mike will have to confirm/deny) what Mike was trying to say was that for a single system, a centralised database for configuration options was overkill and a problem. Using the Windows Registry as an example. But, using a centralised database for configuring dozens of systems (similar or otherwise) could be a good idea, and that LDAP may be good in that situation (a lot of reading going on at boot to create the configs). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
