svn commit: r318250 - in head: etc etc/newsyslog.conf.d etc/syslog.d tools/build/mk

[Ian Lepore]

On Sat, 2017-05-13 at 08:37 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > 
> > Author: ngie
> > Date: Sat May 13 03:10:50 2017
> > New Revision: 318250
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318250
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Handle the logfiles in newsyslog and syslogd conditionally, based on
> >   src.conf(5) knobs
> >   
> >   This will allow consumers of FreeBSD to use the unmodified configuration
> >   files out of the box more than previously.
> What about simply generating proper newsyslog.conf and syslog.conf based
> on the the MK_ values rather than change the visible administration
> interface that has finger memory, ansible, and puppet support?
> 

The evolution for years has been away from monolithic config files
containing a mashup of values for unrelated subsystems and towards
.conf.d directories containing many single-subject files.  The
monolithic files are difficult to edit and otherwise manage
programmatically, and especially difficult to manage in terms of
software packaging and software updates.

-- Ian