making small edits across four diffurent configuration files to accomplish a task
@aescling Slightly onerous
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@vaporeon_ maybe i’m just a hardass or something but to me it’s kit’s play lol, at least under the conditions that
- i know exactly what i am trying to do, and
- the configuration file layout feels reasonable and motivated
@aescling I think for me the annoying parts would be:
a. Remembering where all those config files are located (unless it's just in the same directory for the same program, but in that case, why are there multiple config files at all?)
b. Remembering (or looking up in the manpages) what the option that I need to change is called and what the allowed arguments are
c. 4 files is a lot to keep in my short-term memory...
Though we might be assuming different scenarios? My scenario is something like "Apache httpd has a lot of config files in
/etc/httpd/and the task is making it host a second directory or configuring a module or something", or "I need to configure my SSH client to accept the hopelessly obsolete encryption algorithms for this particular ancient server that I want to SSH into"If the tutorial tells you exactly which lines to change and what to change them to, for sure it's easier