For this reason:
Corrado Fiore:
"... there's always a chance that a mistyped character will make GNUstep
wipe away your file during the next parsing. Therefore you must always
to keep a backup copy of your old file. Argh."
It's incredibly annoying. Also, XML isn't a UNIX standard configuration
format neither; it's an ugly, bloated format (which has its uses outside
of configuration files in my eyes) which shouldn't ever be used for
application configuration.
At present I am writing the script to some what stable and include some
error management. Once this has been done I shall upload a copy to a
Dropbox account for people to use. This will be in a few days hopefully
(I want to make sure the script is commented out, as well as the
configuration file).
Cheers.
On 18/02/2011 11:31, Mark Adams wrote:
Um, why don't you just edit /home/sogo/GNUstep/Defaults file as the sogo user
after your initial setup?
Regards,
Mark
On 18 Feb 2011, at 10:59, Michael Crilly<[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings,
When I first installed SOGo and realized it used GNUStep (urgh!) I wasn't too
impressed. It's a horrid way of configuring a UNIX application and it simply
doesn't fit in with the UNIX way of thinking. All that being said, I've written
a Perl script that I've found, so far, makes my life a lot easier...
The script basically reads in a SOGo.conf file, which is in Apache format (a very common UNIX
configuration file format), and parses it, converting each variable declaration into a 'defaults
write<domain> <key> <value>' command. It works perfectly so far, and even
supports a variable amount of SOGoUserSources entries/dictionaries. I've found this makes
configuring SOGo A LOT easier and if you need to change anything, it's incredibly easy too and
simpler than remembering the SOGoVariable, su'ing as the sogo user and typing out the defaults
command for each and every individual option - ugh.
One thing it doesn't do at present is checking the variable names for potential
mistakes or any kind of error checking, for that matter. See below why.
If people would find this script useful, then I will refine the script and add
a lot of other support (logging, rollback, etc) and try and get it into the
official Debian linux package repository, amongst other things. If people don't
feel as though this would be helpful, then I will leave it as it is and be done
with it.
Let me know.
Kind regards,
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Comtek IT Systems Administrator
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Comtek Network Systems UK Ltd
http://www.comtek.co.uk/
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Comtek IT Systems Administrator
E: [email protected]
Comtek Network Systems UK Ltd
http://www.comtek.co.uk/
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