Re: centralized config file.

["Aaron M. Theriault" <aaron chatnet com>]

Brian Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, paul wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how people would take this, but I think one of the things that
> > all of the current distributions are missing, IMHO, is a centralized
> > configuration file.
> 
> have you looked at SUSE linux? it has such a file. there's a big file, i
> _think_ called rc.config.  it has just about everything you could every
> hope to have in a file. you tweak it, then run suseconfig, and it spits
> out all the approritate "traditional config files"
> 
> it also had options to comment out sections, so that susconfig wouldn't
> touch them. you should check it out. i haven't used 6.0 yet, just 5.3, but
> it's got to still be there, as that is (IMO) one of suse's defining
> features.
> 
> brian
> 
the only thing i would like is a dir called .config and it would have
all the config file in it. knid a like how solaris does it.  all the
files are located in the users home dir and control every aspect of the
os. this would be nice.
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