On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Scott G. Miller wrote:

> > 
> > * Rename .freenetrc to $HOME/.freenet/node.properties
> > 
> > * Give the client a configuration file also, called
> > $HOME/.freenet/client.properties
> > 
> > * We could put everything else in this directory also.  I'm sure you guys
> > all have opinions about this stuff, so let's have 'em.
> You really can't get away with the above changes, since $HOME is a unix
> specific feature and Freenet is supposed to be cross platform.
> 
> > * Give the node daemon a configuration interface which piggy-backs on the
> > socket the node is already listening on.  Currently I will reject any
> > connections that are not from localhost, but later we can think about
> > remote administration (+authentication).  Configuration is written/read by
> > running node from $HOME/.freenet/node.properties.

> This is just a bad idea.  Please do not allow remote configuration.  Its
> never necessary to change the configuration of a running node anyway.

<CAREFULLY>
It isn't? It was for me recently. Some other node was uploading a file
that was growing and growing until it nearly filled up the allocated
disk space. I tried kill -HUP after making the disk space for .freenet
larger in .freenetrc. No go in Java it seems.
</CAREFULLY>

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