linux registry (no, not that again!)

D. Stolte lnxxprt at arcor.de
Wed Nov 3 20:09:07 UTC 2004


Michael A. Peters wrote:
> [mpeters at devel ~]$ ls -l /etc/kdb/system/init/1/ |head -5
> total 12
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 23 Oct 23 05:27 action
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 35 Oct 23 05:27 process
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 20 Oct 23 05:27 runlevels
> [mpeters at devel ~]$ cat /etc/kdb/system/init/1/action
> RG002
> 40
> <DATA>
> respawn
thats just cryptic nonsense. i dont want such a config system on
my box.

> I get the feeling that many people are turned off to Elektra just  
> because they have had a bad experience with a particular implementation  
> of a registry in an operating system that shall remain nameless.
> 
> Before you just blindly reject what is a good thing, log into gnome,  
> and launch an application called gconf-editor.
> 
> There you have it - a registry in use in Linux that has been in use in  
> Linux for quite some time quite succesfully. gconf isn't quite as  
> robust as elektra because it uses a daemon which does present a single  
> point of failure, but it is a registry.
gconf is not much better than the m$ registry imho.

to improve the management of linux i would like to see a standard for
config files (FHS-like). a guide for programmers.

/ds




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