Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Of course you have to learn how to use your system. Your system can
>help you with that, by presenting opportunities to recognize, not
>recollect, the right solution. For example, qmail requires you to
>remember concurrencyremote (and spell it right!), instead of merely
>looking in control/ and seeing concurrencyremote. Why rely on an
>nonexistent or empty file meaning "use the default" instead of putting
>the documentation for the variable in the tail of the file, and
>leaving the first line blank?
Why not just learn that "man qmail-control" has all that information?
If you can remember that /var/qmail/control is where control files go,
surely you can remember the name of the man page.
I like the current approach, where every file in my control directory
represents a true setting, not a default. I don't have to read each
file to see which values are set and which are defaulted. And
qmail-showctl relies on this, though it could be modified to support
your suggested method.
-Dave
