Calling all regressions

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:04:17PM +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
> > Yep, definitely.  Store them all, and refuse to start unless:
> > cyr_conf -C $oldfile is the same output as cyr_conf with the
> > -C option passed to 'master'.  Spit out an error message
> > describing what's different and how to fix it.
> 
> Hi Bron,
> 
> cyr_conf sounds good :)
> 
> For the "refuse to start", do you think it should be integrated into
> master or being kept in the init script?

Init scripts.  All this "config manglement" is supporting infrastructure,
not core operations.  The init script would do all the initial config
setup into $configdir, and launch master with that config file and a
cyrus.conf as well.

> What would be very cool is a detect feature which detects things like
> database config from the configdir. That way it could also override
> configuration settings from the config files on startup and log about it.
> It sounds a bit dangerous, what do you think?

Quite doable.  It could probably just use "file" to figure out what sort
of database file was in use.  Skiplist is certainly magic-checkable (the
first 20 bytes contain all the details), and I imagine BDB is similar.

I'm _not_ so sure about berkeley-hash vs berkeley-btree, and I am pretty
certain it can't auto-detect berkeley-nosync or skiplist-unsafe!

I'd rather have it detect the wrong type and abort than detect and log
on startup.  This is a daemon that deals with files that people care
about, after all!

Bron.