Standalone utilities to manipulate configuration files
etcutils is a package that provides standalone utilities to manipulate some of the configuration files in /etc in a programmatic manner. Some of these files can be seen as databases and, as such, they should have tools to update them.
The utilities provided by etcutils are designed to permit their integration into packaging systems. Once integrated, packages can use these tools to automatically modify these system-wide configuration files without having to care about portability issues. Of course, these utilities provide a command-line interface that resembles that of other standard tools, and thus their manual usage is also possible.
The following utilities are provided:
services(8): Add, list, remove and check the presence of entries in the services(5) database.
shells(8): Add, list, remove and check the presence of entries in the shells(5) database.
I originally created etcutils to simplify the post-installation scripts that are auto-generated in pkgsrc, but in the end never put the project to use after its first release.
