config syntax checker

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:30:02AM +0100, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:
> Dear Bird Users, 
> 

> we (Vienna Internet Exchange) are one step closer to deploying bird
> into beta for our exchange - we have an automated configuration
> generation tool that grabs all data from our database and creates a
...
> and parsing the output? Ideally I'd like to call 'bird -c /etc/bird.conf
> --check-config' and check the return-status of this script. I guess this
> wouldn't be hard to do, would it? 

There are two ways how it could be implemented:

1) send configure [soft] command and use the return code of the command.
- using bird control socket, return code is prepend to the answer.

2) add that option as you suggested. I think we could implement it in
the next version.

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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