A couple of ideas I want to implement

[Dennis Veatch]

On Saturday 09 May 2009 9:08:34 am Stefan Wold wrote:
> Hey fellow developers!
>
> I have a few changes in my mind that I want input on before I actually
> introduce them into the moonbase and theedge.
>
> 1) Adding a verify-sha256 plugin, reason for that would be that sha1
> will pretty soon be deprecated due to new attacks making it less
> reliable.
>

Was just reading something about that several days ago. May as well go there 
before it is depreciated. I like the idea.

> 2) I want to create a cron-common module that most of our crond's will
> depend upon, there are several that can share the same scripts and
> configurations. I also want to add a cron-plugin that will search
> modules for a cron.d directory and install the files into /etc/cron.d/
>

Sounds like a good idea especially for a server.

> 3) Several modules could use logrotation scripts, today we don't have
> the means to do that easily. What I have in mind for this is to fix the
> logrotate module and add a logrotate-plugin that will check each module
> for a logrotate.d directory and install the files found.
>
>

Its one reason on my desktops I have not fiddled with logrotate. Go for it.

> Let me know what you guys think, I believe these are change that make
> stuff easier for the end users.

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