Re: Admintool/config tool

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for any information about what the AdminTool/ConfigTool group
> > is doing. I'm especially interested in any configuration file format or
> > standard that was decided on.. (Ie I need a configuration file(s) for
> > deity)
> 
>     - the config database is, at the moment, based on dcfgtool. a simple
>       text file database.  advantage of this is that it can be manipulated
>       with command line tools, from gui front-ends, and from vi or other
>       text editor.

Can you tell me more about dcfgtool? Is it just a simple key=value system
with 'sections' provided by the file system? How does it handle comments
in the config files and changing of values in the files, is there a C lib,
etc.. How about multiple layers, like deity/ftp-method (presumably,
/etc/config/deity/ftp-method) and so on..

Ps, with Deity we are developing a Text/GUI widget set that might be
interesting to the admin tool group..

Thanks,
Jason


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