The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Shane Stixrud]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Shane Stixrud wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Avi Alkalay wrote:
>
>> Yeah, thats because Elektra main goal is not to help sysadmins, but to help
>> unrelated programs to colaborate automaticaly. this way, helping the
>> sysadmin is an inevitable consequence.
>
> It seems to me configuration data in an Elektra like format DOES help 
> sysadmins with managing system configuration even without fancy applications. 
> The sysadmin just needs to begin treating configuration data as a series of 
> "command directives" instead big bang application/subsystem file edits.
>
> example:

[snip]

Or even better the following is very readable and easy to edit with a 
standard text editor IMO.

cfg_mgr --interactive

display -detail /dhcp/sw/dhcpd/subnets/10.202.46.0-24/*

/use-host-decl-names:
    ; Key description
    # User comments go here
    on

/options/log-servers:
    ; Key description
    # User comments go here
    10.202.46.2, 10.202.46.3

/hosts/ws001/fixed-address:
    ; Key description
    # User comments go here
    192.168.0.1

/hosts/ws001/default-lease-time:
    ; Key description
    # User comments go here
    10000

/hosts/ws001/filename:
    ; Key description
    # User comments go here
    /lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-1

/hosts/ws001/hw:
    ; Key description
    # User comments go here
    ethernet:00:11:22:33:44:55