Re: config files and includes

2003-02-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
What would be really cool is if more config files could do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for packages. Hmmm... glancing through syslogd.c, it d

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just gone through the process of upgrading or installing several > hundred machines, and Thst includes altering or editing many config > files in /etc. I like the way that rc.conf > is handled, in that defaults/rc.comf can be updated and only the

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > of course.. > > > > New functionality vs POLA. An age old conflict. > > Isn't POLA the reason why people gave up trying to extend the old standards > (like syslogd and inetd) and decided to build new feature-rich daemons l

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:39 PM -0800 2/20/03, Julian Elischer wrote: I have just gone through the process of upgrading or installing several hundred machines, and that includes altering or editing many config files in /etc. ... For example syslogd.conf or newsyslog.conf are updated between releases but they are also

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > < said: > > > > > What would be really cool is if more config files could > > > do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf > > > wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it > > > look in /usr/local/etc/syslo

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, John De Boskey wrote: > - Julian Elischer's Original Message - > > > > I have just gone through the process of upgrading or installing several > > hundred machines, and Thst includes altering or editing many config > > files in /etc. I like the way that rc.conf > >

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < >said: > > > What would be really cool is if more config files could > > do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf > > wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it > > look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf fo

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread John De Boskey
- Julian Elischer's Original Message - > > I have just gone through the process of upgrading or installing several > hundred machines, and Thst includes altering or editing many config > files in /etc. I like the way that rc.conf > is handled, in that defaults/rc.comf can be updated and on

config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > What would be really cool is if more config files could > do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf > wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it > look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf for loging requirments for > packages. Well, it's a trivial pa

config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
I have just gone through the process of upgrading or installing several hundred machines, and Thst includes altering or editing many config files in /etc. I like the way that rc.conf is handled, in that defaults/rc.comf can be updated and only the local changes live in r.conf. I wish that more fil