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On Fri, 2 May 2003, Evan Powers wrote: |
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> On Friday 02 May 2003 03:23 pm, Wouter van Kleunen wrote: |
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> > For example firewall generators generate init scripts. And sysvinit |
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> > frontends (KDE has a frontend) uses it. I think also mandrake has a |
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> > frontend for selecting which services get booted. I dunno about suse or |
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> > red hat. I don't say these distro's should immediatly start using this |
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> > init. But your claim that only 1 program parses these files is not true. |
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> I'm not sure if those are particularly good counter examples. I'm not totally |
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> familiar with KDE's frontend, but I was, at a time, familiar with the |
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> Linuxconf equivalent. |
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> Sysvinit frontends probably do not actually look inside the init scripts; all |
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> they care about is the filename. The menus for selecting which service to run |
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> at boot are really asking which script files you want in which runlevels. |
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> Most frontends serve only to manipulate the symlinks. So the script's format |
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> is still parsed by only one program. |
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Yes that is true. In my program that would be equivalent with editing a |
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profile in xml format. |
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> As for firewall generators...what sort of generated script are you talking |
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> about? I'd imagine you mean that the program merely generates a sequence of |
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> iptables commands which initialize the tables correctly, since iptables |
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> doesn't have a file format of it's own. I'm not sure how wrapping the |
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> sequence of commands in XML markup is accomplishing anything.... |
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I could think of writing a module that will read the firewall rules from a |
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xml config file. That config file will be edited by a frontend |
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> That said, don't take my criticisms too harshly. I think there's much that can |
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> be done to improve Gentoo's init system (despite it's being quite good, |
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> compared to other systems, at present), and I think your direction is |
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> interesting. But there are a number of things in your approach which give me |
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> pause. |
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> Good luck in any case, |
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> Evan |
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