Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like to macro pretty much every variable that is used in more than one > place (i.e., hostnames, ports, etc; hostnames are especially likely to > be re-re-re-...-used).
That is very good advice. I tend to advocate that myself. > If you choose good names, it can make stuff easier to understand; and > typos tend to be far more disastrous (either giving syntax errors or > breaking a large part of the configuration), which is a good thing as > you can then fix it immediately. This also is very true. There is no silver bullet, but keeping your rule set readable will help prevent a lot of headaches. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"
