Peter Tribble wrote:
So, a question for the weekend:
When administering something, do you prefer to issue a bunch of commands
to set configuration parameters, or edit a configuration file that the
thing can read?
It depends on the application.
If I've got files then I can do version control, validate them before
applying, see the configuration of X as a whole and not have to worry
about doing the equivalent of "rm -f * .o".
It also makes verifying a system easy - if i'm doing a central repo for
all my config's, if someone makes a local change that doesn't get pushed
out correctly, that's easy to spot.
For better or worse, I think we understand how to do professional system
administration a lot better with files than the command line.
Darren
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