On Sat, 24 May 1997, Mark Baker wrote: > > b) change policy to _not_ allow config information in /etc scripts > > I disagree strongly. A script without config information doesn't belong in > /etc at all. > > Having your database seems like a reasonable idea, but it needs to be plain > text which might be slow; a db file would be faster but I want to be able to > change it in a text editor.
As a compromise it could use the same system than the sendmail aliases: The user make changes in a plain text file (/etc/aliases), but the application 'compiles' this file as a db database (/etc/aliases.db)? -- - ** Linux ** +-------------------+ ** WAW ** - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | RENARDIAS Vincent | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Debian/GNU Linux +-------------------+ http://www.waw.com/ - - http://www.debian.org/ | WAW (33) 4 91 81 21 45 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
