On 2003.11.02, Tom Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:43, Dossy wrote:
> > On 2003.10.29, Tom Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > This is the perfect place to put sensitive data and pass it to
> > > AOLserver via environment variables.
> >
> > Please don't say "pass sensitive data via environment variables." On a
> > Linux box, try "ps e" ...
>
> Thanks Dossy! Good idea about just sourcing the file, that should work
> perfectly. I wish the ssl files could use the same trick, I think those
> get sourced after the process changes user/group.
You can. Source in your config. early on that sets some variables (or
builds lists of lists, etc.) -- then, simply use those vars in the files
you want after the process drops privs.
> So I was wondering if it would be useful to move all editable vars out
> of the main startup and into separate files. Then there would be minimal
> overlap for different servers sharing startup scripts.
Or, since the config script is just another Tcl script, treat it as
such: write it as a program that can do the necessary introspection to
determine what machine it's running on, what it's supposed to do, what
modules it needs to load, etc.
I have my setup installed in /home/aolserver, and there's a
/home/aolserver/nsd.tcl which has a block in it like this:
foreach server [glob -nocomplain config/servers/*] {
source $server
}
My various servers are defined in /home/aolserver/config/servers/, so
startup is just "./start -s servername", etc.
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