On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 03:08, Robert Story wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:56:48 +0200 Thomas wrote:
> TA> Robert Story wrote:
> TA> > snmpd -c +/home/bob/my.conf
> TA> >
> TA> > would cause my.conf to be processed before the default config files.
> TA>
> TA> At a first glance, I find that counterintuitive. For mib dirs, "+" means
> TA> "append" which I'd translate to "be processed *after* the default config
> TA> files" here. But that's the default behaviour already.
I agree.
> TA> Besides, once "-C -c" works properly (thanks to your patch), isn't "-C
> TA> -c file1,file2,..." sufficiently flexible already?
>
> But then you have to track down all the files the agent would read by default
> (in the absence of -C) and add them yourself. If you just want another file
> parsed, and want it parsed before the defaults, you can't do that easily.
OK - how about a special token than can be included within the -c list
to mean "read all the standard config files here".
Something like
-C -c my.pre-conf,CONFIG,my-post-conf
Alternatively, a syntax of
-c /home/bob/my.conf+
might be a reasonably clear indication of prepending rather than
appending. (And could even be extended to the other places where
this is used).
Dave
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