Subject: Re: admin script for ipfilter
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/28/2006 15:58:16
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:20:49PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Darren Reed wrote:
> >Why can't it be easier?
> >
> >Why can't we make it that you can just run some command
> >line tool and that takes care of all of the above complications
> >for you ?
> 
> No reason not to, it was just not clear from the start.
> What do you think of SGI's chkconfig to solve that problem?
> 
> No idea what other, similar implementations are out there.

There are at least two linux variants of "chkconfig" and I'm
embaressed to say I'm not familiar with the IRIX one.

But, given that there are at least two different linux ones,
I wouldnt be eager to see yet another variant.

I'm also not convinced that chkconfig does enough of what I want.

Darren