You may want to take a look at Perl for System Administration by O'Reilly and Associates. Chapter 5 (TCP/IP Name Services) pages 149-167 describe generating BIND config files from a db. You can make all your changes to the db (through CGI if you like) and then dump the config files from the db. This way, there is no need to parse the existing files because the data is stored in the db.

I highly recommend taking a look at this chapter. Even though the example is rather simplistic and wouldn't suit the needs where I work, it could be easily modified to incorporate the changes we need. We are looking into moving in this direction in the future.

perl -e 'print reverse qw/o b n a e s/;'

In reply to Re: Reading and *writing* configuration files by seanbo
in thread Reading and *writing* configuration files by DeathBunny

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.