[PLUG] I wonder if I can find an opinion here...
Elliott Mitchell
ehem at m5p.com
Thu Jul 20 02:20:42 UTC 2006
>From: Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>
> 1. GUI Administration vs. ASCII Config Files
>
> Apple's BSD underpinnings are mostly well-behaved. The hard part is
> getting the GUI to work and play well with ASCII config files. I like
> to keep configuration files in a Subversion repository and push into
> production via cfengine.
>
> But ... the minute I open the administrative GUI for any given daemon,
> the GUI will parse and re-write the config file, often removing
> comments or directives it doesn't understand (even if the underlying
> daemon *does* understand them).
>
> Then again, this isn't so much different from using GUI controls on
> Linux boxes. It's tough to mix and match administrative techniques.
Oh yeah, I know this one. This is what makes me avoid RedHat. This is
much worse when your setup *requires* those options, and there is no way
to make the GUI tool add them. Particularly annoying when the option has
existed more or less forever.
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