The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Shane Stixrud]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> dhcp snippet (dhcp is not on here so hopefully this snippet is valid):
> default-lease-time           21600;
> subnet 10.202.46.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>    use-host-decl-names      on;
>    option log-servers       10.202.46.2;
>    host ws001 {
>        hardware ethernet    00:11:22:33:44:55;
>        fixed-address        192.168.0.1;
>        default-lease-time   10000
>        filename             "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-1";
>    }
> }
>
> Here's the same thing in .ini style:
[snip]
> I'd argue that as the number of subnets and special case workstations
> goes up, the ability of a system administrator to read and understand
> the flat file is going to be markedly harder than for the admin to read
> the custom-crafted dhcp-config syntax.

And I would agree for the .ini format.  But things change considerably 
when instead we deal with all configuration elements as keys and their 
values in a filesystem like structure.  I can now do:
"cfg_prog -export .ini/dhcpd/xml/etc.. /system/dhcpd/subnet 10.202.*"

where my default editor may be emacs, vim, gedit or a super config editor.

Shane.