Once upon a time, David Zeuthen <david(a)fubar.dk> said:
Making e.g. g-p-m run when no-one is logged in solves a *bunch* of
other
problems; sorry if granting you these capabilities (that you didn't have
earlier btw) as a system administrator causes you so much pain, e.g.
that you can't hand-edit a bloody file in /etc using vi or emacs (but
you will be able to run command tools as I mentioned in the other mail
to tweak things).
Plain text config files are nice for system administration. They can be
versioned with CVS (and others), they can be self documenting with
comments, and they can even be edited on another system if necessary.
Tools like sed and perl can make mass changes, grep can find arbitrary
things, etc.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.