[Info-vax] Configuration files, was: Re: Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-10 16:41:54 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> One of the nice things about some of the modern Unix/Linux tools is 
> that you can sometimes have the best of both worlds.

That would be the agony of a flaky and fickle GUI teetering atop a 
flaky and fickle configuration file?

Yeah; I'm familiar with that.  On various Linux and OS X and BSD and 
other platforms.  Yes, it's useful.

Useful when you have wade into the settings because of an unsual 
requirement, or a configuration file corruption, or some other oddity.

Local preferences are for pre-packaged profile files, or — when pressed 
— configuration files that don't — as so many unfortunately do — have 
their own home-grown parsers, and — as so many unfortunately don't — 
have tools to verify syntax, and report errors.  Which usually gets 
back to having an appropriate front-end on the configuration data file.


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