On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: > > The smart > > configurator can tell you if you have made an error in configuration, but > > it really does not allow any "action": if any configuration requires some > > synchronization between two config keys, > > Never! There should never be a need to sync two different keys! Continuing > the hostname example, it should be defined in a single place, e.g. > local_machine->network_settings->hostname and all scripts/daemons/apps > that need the value should access it instead of duplicating the data in > their specific config sections! Can you imagine ServerRoot defined more > than once (for the same virtual server) in the Apache config? Wouldn't it > be a nonsense? But the same nonsense is defining server's hostname > separately in sendmail's, httpd's, you name it configuration files.
Wrong! My host has tens of different hostnames, also a host might have several IP addresses. Every application needs to know under which hostname it is working. For example, httpd will show a different page as different hostnames, and the mail daemon will serve different mailboxes for different domains. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 The RIGHT way to contact me is by e-mail. I am otherwise nonexistent :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
