From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7624df5e57d09688 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-05 03:17:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: antonio_duran@hotmail.com (Antonio Duran) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal Date: 5 Jun 2002 03:17:25 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3CFCE218.585D56E2@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.101.1.126 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1023272245 27835 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2002 10:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jun 2002 10:17:25 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25340 Date: 2002-06-05T10:17:25+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote in message news:<3CFCE218.585D56E2@san.rr.com>... > I think that's true on UNIX (esp. server programs) much more so than on > Windows. I can't remember the last time I edited configuration manually on > Windows. > Maybe I'm not lucky enough since I recently had to configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL on my machine and had to deal with text based config files but these applications are not Windows native (that is, only for Windows) ;-). Of course, using a text editor rather than a specific tool is more error prone and one must take care of specific syntax issues (eg. editing the hosts file and that tricky tab at the beginning of entries). > Errrr... if you ignore the ACLs on registry entries, sure. That's like > saying the problem with UNIX is it's all files, so if you can write to one > you can write to them all. Right, I've ignored ACLs on registry entries (maybe because my experience is on Windows 98). While I recognize the advantanges of having configuration data in a single place (common tools for handling data) I'm also concerned with, as we say in Spain, "putting all the eggs in the same basket". There is a risk of loosing all your configuration data. This is not only a Windows problem, as I recall, on AIX there is also a repository for config data (I think its name is RODM or something like that). Moreover, the data storage format of those repositories is propietary, tailored to a specific system, and, in general, even if you backed up your config data is complicated to restore them back after a system crash. While is true that on Unix, if you loose the contents of your /etc directory you're in big trouble is also true that it contains ordinary files and restoring them (provided you backed up them) is easier. > I think it's also important to have system-wide, program-wide, and user-wide > config files. Agree. Thank you for your answer and best regards, Antonio Dur�n