On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:15 -0400, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:15 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Harry Hoffman wrote:
>
> > This is truly a horrible idea!!! Think about "how well" it works in
> > windows. Or think AIX.
>
> I absolutely agree! Having anything like the Windows Registry for Linux
> is a wretched, wretched idea...
>
Yeah why do people want to move to a single config database anyways? So
you can have a single point of failure for an entire server and all
services? Or so one poorly written app can corrupt it all? Ya know I
agree with you guys here.
It does NOT have to be one file.
A libconfig (or something) that exports a standard API that programs use
to look up configuration values. It writes PLAIN TEXT configuration
files to somewhere in /etc in a consistent format across all
applications that use it.
Most things store config files in /etc right now, so in the _current_
situation, if your /etc/ takes a dive, you're hosed. I fail to see how
a config situation as described in the above paragraph would be _worse_
than what exists now.
The point of a good converged config project (IMHO) would be a
_consistent_ _file_ _format_ in plain-text files, NOT a binary-only
single-file registry. People simply don't seem to understand that.
Dan