--On Tuesday, October 07, 2008 03:43:04 PM -0500 Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
>> I think that's the complaint -- having to change a file on every >> single machine, rather than having some central way to control policy. > > I agree, but Jeff specifically is already accustomed to making this > change on every system and wants not to have to change that practice. To clarify. I don't make this change on every system. I make it once, and my software makes it on every system, by pushing out new files (well, actually, the workstations pull new files, but the effect is the same). A system that required us to run some interactive tool on every machine would be a show-stopper for us. A system that required running some non-interactive tool could work, but would be painful and is likely to be brittle as well, because such tools tend to be designed to be used to describe a change, rather than to describe what the new state should be. -- Jeff
