[Gllug] Fedora 11 gets it wrong

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:33:44AM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Bruce Richardson<itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:
> 
> > Not that I ever liked the old RH config tools.  The whole RH
> > /etc/sysconfig mess is nasty, partly because it was designed with the
> > aim of being parsable by python scripts rather than human admins.
> 
> I have to say, I've always thought /etc/sysconfig was one of Red Hat's
> strongest features. Simply set the appropriate variable, in an easily
> human parseable file of key=value pairs, and away you go. They failed
> a bit by including code (I'm thinking of networking here) rather just
> purely config values, but other than that, it's fine. Certainly
> Debian's /etc/interfaces is horrific to deal with in comparison.

+1

Especially once you have found where it is all documented:

	/usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt

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