Re: Need 'UncommentAndSetValue' or some such

[Chip Seraphine]

Luke Kanies wrote:

> I think editfiles should be essentially replaced with a system that allows
>
> people to manage objects contained in files (hosts in /etc/hosts, services
> in /etc/services, filesystems in /etc/fstab, cron jobs in
> /var/spool/crontabs/*) as objects, not as lines in a file.  The reason
> editfiles is so complicated is because it's the wrong approach for complete
> management.

I certainly agree that editfiles is not as good a solution as something 
that actually understands the file format; however, I take issue with 
"replaced".  There are still many uses for editfiles other than editing 
config files that will be parsed by some program, and there will always 
be config files that no "smart" config tool knows how to parse.

I'm all for new and improved functionality, but there is and probably 
always will be a use for something like editfiles.