Re: {bb} Remark Big Brother

[Sean MacGuire <sean@MacLawran.CA>]

"van Gogh, Ronald" wrote:
> 
> L.S.,
> 
> as a collegue of Mark op het Veld i'm looking at the package Big Brother
> within Origin now as well. I noticed a lot of configation information is put
> in shell scripts, like the bbdef.sh. Now we're trying to add some
> functionality ourselves like reporting, maintenance windows etc. and quite
> often we use perl scripts for this. From perl it's difficult to run a shell
> script, like bbdef.sh, and use the variables it set.

I understand.

> Isn't it easier or at least nicer to define a configuration 
> file with the settings, which can be read by a shell script, 
> a perl script or whatever ?

Absolutely.  Problem is that BB has grown organically, and we've
had to resort to some fairly ugly munging (etc/bbinc.sh) to make
sure everything is set correctly for everywhere that needs stuff.

If you have specific suggestions on changes that would make our
lives easier, by all means let us know and we'll see what we can
do.
-- 
Sean MacGuire, Reality Engineer               sean@MacLawran.ca
The Big Brother Ministry of Truth      http://maclawran.ca/sean
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