Re: Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 02:52:50PM +0300, Shaya Potter wrote: For the fact that we would need to write a parser for all our conf files. I think that might be overkill, as many of our conf files are probably just some files with a variable or two. i.e. the structure of the config file is

Re: Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-03 Thread Shaya Potter
At 12:46 PM 6/2/98 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Shaya == Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shaya Also, linuxconf shouldn't be used to configure a user's Shaya personal information, such as .bashrc, .pinerc, those should Shaya be left to either the program itself like in pine, or to

Re: Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:43:22AM +0300, Shaya Potter wrote: Shaya Also, linuxconf shouldn't be used to configure a user's Shaya personal information, such as .bashrc, .pinerc, those should Shaya be left to either the program itself like in pine, or to a Shaya package like the dotfile

Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-02 Thread Shaya Potter
Ok, I see their has been a lot of talk on if the way linuxconf does its thing is good for debian. first things first, a user doesn't have to use linuxconf. If a user wants to edit the file by hand they can use the existing tools that we have. Even those aren't perfect, if I edit my sendmail.cf

Re: Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Shaya == Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shaya Also, linuxconf shouldn't be used to configure a user's Shaya personal information, such as .bashrc, .pinerc, those should Shaya be left to either the program itself like in pine, or to a Shaya package like the dotfile generator for a

Re: Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-02 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 12:46:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Shaya Also, linuxconf shouldn't be used to configure a user's Shaya personal information, such as .bashrc, .pinerc, those should Shaya be left to either the program itself like in pine, or to a Shaya package like the dotfile