config files obfuscation [was: Configuring NFS under Linux for Firewall control]

[Florin Andrei]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:10 -0500, David Hollis wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:13 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:

> > I already noticed that there are all kinds of arcane config bits in
> > places such as /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* that can be
> > very handy, but there's no way to unearth them other than printing out
> > all essential system scripts in /etc and reading them line by line.
> > Honestly, i hate to do that. Not because i'm lazy, but because i'm busy.
> > I assume i'm not the only one in this situation.
> 
> Try checking out the files in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*.
> 
> Particularly, sysconfig.txt.  

Cool, that's really useful, but it does not seem to be complete. E.g.,
where are the NFS-related bits? (my original request)

It still seems that self-documented files are a better idea, at least
from the sysadmin's perspective.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/