]] "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > On 07/09/2014 08:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > > > >> If we manage to do that, introduce "rolefulfilment=" in units which we > >> would define those standardized predefined set of roles as in for > >> httpd.service we might have rolefulfilment=web server, for postgresql, > >> rolefulfilment=database server etc. so you could list/query etc the > >> machine primary role and at the same time list the daemon/service who > >> fulfills that role > > It's not useful to know that a machine is a database server. It's > > useful to know if it's a postgres server or a mysql server or an oracle > > server, be it for monitoring or for connecting to it. > > Yes it is and if you dont see the benefits of knowing the roles of > your machine or containers and using roles in your infrastructure I > cannot help you.
I know and use roles in my infrastructure, so that's not my question. I'm objecting to the use of a predefined list of roles, since that will not match my infrastructure, and I'm wondering what the use case for a very restricted list like that is. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel