Hi Jörg,
The reason for this change request is that sometimes one needs to use a
different location than the system default, just like INS_BASE. Some
runtime configuration files needed by a program may also need to be
changed, hence this change request.
> the directory /etc/default/ _is_ the local configuration directory
> for your machine. I believe that there is only the need for
> one machine global config file.
As /etc/default is a local file system, one copy of the default file
is needed for each node in the network. While the set of available
CD-R devices differs for each host in the network, the set of rscsi
devices will be constant.
Regards,
Klaus
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:42:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 19 21:20:50 2001
>
>
> >Would it be possible to make the file name of the default files, the
> >ones that normally reside in /etc/default/<prog>, be configurable?
> >I need this for my installations, partly to support a networked
> >environment where many machines share the same binaries and partly to
> >have private default files for each cdrtools version.
>
> >I suggest that the something like the following macro names can be
> >used to overwrite the default file location:
>
> > CDRECORD_DEFAULT_FILE
> > RSCSI_DEFAULT_FILE
>
> I don't understand you.
>
> the directory /etc/default/ _is_ the local configuration directory
> for your machine. I believe that there is only the need for
> one machine global config file.
>
> >In addition the `DEFLT' macro in `include/deflts.h' should also be
> >configurable.
>
> /etc/default _is_ the official directory to put local configs in.
>
> >The default values are used if the macros are undefined, that is good old
>
> > #ifndef CDRECORD_DEFAULT_FILE
> > #define CDRECORD_DEFAULT_FILE "/etc/default/cdrecord"
> > #endif
>
> >as we all know.
>
> >These macros can then be specified in the DEFAULTS/Defaults.<sys> file
> >using -D<var>=<value> in a make variable.
>
> >While it would be nice if the location of the default file is also
> >represented in the installed version of the man pages, it is by no
> >means a requirement (for me, at least).
>
> I see no reason why someone would like to have different configs on one
> machine....
>
>
> Jörg
>
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