FreeBSD and Information handling

Nikolay Pavlov quetzal at zone3000.net
Sat Jun 16 15:01:48 UTC 2007


On Saturday, 16 June 2007 at 14:22:50 +0200, David Naylor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there was any tool available in freebsd for handling 
> information, specifically configuration files, package information and such.  
> I know all information is available via text files however in order to access 
> the information the program might have to hard code the retreval system (not 
> being able to use a shared library).  
> 
> So:
> 1) What tools are there for accessing information (i.e. libraries)?
> 2) If so is there any unification of the interface?
> 3) If no to any of the above, is there a need for such tools and should it be 
> a unified interface (not just specific subsets)?
> 
> David

Hi David. If you want to automate your administrative task your might
want to look at puppet or cfengine.



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