because many people run their servers from inside their bin/ directory, and if it's named OpenSim.ini then any changes that are made to that file will get overwritten (not just overridden) at the next svn update.
That's why it was renamed to OpenSim.ini.example -- originally, it was set to OpenSim.ini, and that problem was pretty much the number one support issue at that time. -Kyle H On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Paul Fishwick <[email protected]> wrote: > Justin Clark-Casey wrote: >> To get OpenSim to run at all, the user still has to copy OpenSim.ini.example >> to OpenSim.ini (though it should be >> possible to override this if config is supplied over the network). > > This may be a silly question, but is there some reason why we keep on > suggesting > that people copy OpenSim.ini.example to OpenSim.ini? Why not just make > OpenSim.ini what happens to be in OpenSim.ini.example? > > -p > > > Paul Fishwick, PhD > Professor and Director, Digital Arts and Sciences Programs > University of Florida > Computer & Information Science and Eng. Dept. > Bldg. CSE, Room 301 > P.O. Box 116120 > Gainesville, FL 32611 > Email: [email protected] > Phone: (352) 392-1414 > Fax: (352) 392-1220 > Web: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
