Re: Propersel for standerd configuration system.

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> Now, don't get me wrong...I hate windows registries just as badly as
> anyone else, and I've been using linuxconf on and off for ages.  But
> this has one darn good idea to it: many programs using the same data
> source.  For instance, I just installed this machine with one hostname
> before realizing that alas, I could not get that hostname!  It was a
> royal pain to find all occurances of that hostname and change them all.

So?  There's already a system call to give you the hostname.

Which is to say: a good idea is only a good idea unless you're 
willing to do the hard work of actually making it work properly.

-- 
Raul


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