Re: Admintool/config tool
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 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..
Has the group considered IMSP (which I believe has been renamed to
ACAP)? This is an IETF standard track protocol for centralized
configuartion of networked applications. I've been using the Cyrus
IMSP implementation which uses a simple text database on the backend.
--
Jean Pierre
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