Mike Meyer wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
LDAP is nice organizing across many systems, but if you are just
dealing with one computer it is complete over kill for any thing.
In that situation, it's not merely overkill, it's may actually be a
bad idea. Can you say "AIX SDR"? How about "Windows registry"?
Those system both took the approach of putting all the configuration
information in a central database. This creates problems because the
tools needed to examine/fix the config database require a complex
environment - at least compared to a statically linked copy of
ed. LDAP may not be so bad, but it still makes me nervous.
On the other hand, if you've got a flock of boxes to manage, having a
way to tell the rc subsystem "Go read config values from this LDAP
server" seems like a very attractive alternative.
And to think, all these years I've been wasting my time and effort using
NFS and rsync to centralize the configurations of server farms.
--
Darren Pilgrim
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