[bind10-dev] few configuration thoughts

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:37:25PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 1) I think that configuration command names should match the executable 
> names or maybe the name without the b10-prefix. Or allow both to work. 
> For example: "stats-httpd show".

+1

> 2) Lower case bindctl commands should work.

+1

> 3) bindctl "help" should be more intuitive. For example these do not 
> work:  "Stats help show" and "Stats show help". Jelte suggested: "help 
> stats show".

I like the help stats show. It seems more logical, as help is independent global
command.

> 4) bindctl should be able to show configurations in use. For example in 
> the postfix world, "postconf" will report all the configurations 
> (parameters and settings). And "postconf -n" will show just the 
> custom settings.

Doesn't some kind of config show work? I think config show_json was doing that.

> 5) Boss components configurations should indicate msgq and sockcreator 
> too? Maybe add to configuration but make it so not optional (they are 
> mandatory).

Why? Are they really components? The boss itself is not included either. I don't
see any advantage in that for an administrator and it would need quite some
hacks.

> 6) When adding a single boss component, it shouldn't remove all the 
> other components.  This happens with other maps or named_sets too. Maybe 
> we need to design a new technique for this?

Does that really happen? It never happened for me. What I understand is it just
creates a full copy of the default in the b10_config.db and acts little bit
funny with config diff, but it should work otherwise.

With regards

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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