From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 15:29:20 CEST
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:31:29PM +0200, Dumas Patrice wrote:
>
> The same happens with windows. The problem here is not centralized
> information, it is concurrent access.
>
Right. Only DBMS mechanism can solve. My dream is a Linux Configuration
Registry over SQL.
In this way we can configure our Linux box via web using phpmysqladmin!!
>
> And webmin is also quite nice.
>
I explored it a little. It mantains an own internal DB?
> I agree with you, anyway, the linux apps should use a standardized format
> for configuration. It cannot be used for anything, however, sometimes
> you have stuff which doesn't fit one scheme easily (I think about
> cfengine, for example).
>
> All this is a consequence of decentralized development in a non normalized
> world...
Perfect. Your last sentence should be my signature. Unfortunately, I cannot
speak such fluid like you!
It is possible to add a Registry-Protocol-Specification without
to break the "decentralized development"?
I think yes: in the decentralized devolpment we use common protocols already:
like X, of PPP or SMTP or POP3.
Why to non have a protocol to store registry info??
But I also see what will happens: an "rm -r /etc" in every Linux distro!
The /etc directory is only a rudimental database based on text file.
Configuration programs have to mantain it aligned with the registry: an
hard (and illogical) task.
This break the romanticism about UNIX fs structure, but this is.
I we still like to go in /etc and change /etc/hosts by hand, we
cannot pretend a registry in Linux!
What you think?
Michele
P.S.
Are we discovering that MS-Windows is better that Linux?
My heart is open. I'm not fanatic. I think registry is
better then /etc. But I can change idea if someone has better arguments.
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