The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Avi Alkalay avi at unix.sh
Thu Mar 30 03:58:24 UTC 2006


On 3/28/06, sean <seanlkml at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> But what is the advantage of building an entire new config language
> around these wrappers?  Couldn't they be manipulated just as easily
> with shell or python?    Can the administrator make simple ad-hoc
> command line config file changes?


Experience shows that is more difficult and less effective to write a lot of
different configuration parsers, then patching the original softwares to
make them read configuration atoms from other sources and formats.

Avi
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