Re: cfengine config files location

[Tim Nelson]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chip Seraphine wrote:

> On Thursday 23 September 2004 22:14, Tim Nelson wrote:
>
> >         Can I suggest that we have a cfengine-base-config package?  Yes,
> > I'm already aware of the examples, and these are good, but I'm more
> > talking about an empty framework for configuration.
>
> > It'd also be nice to
> > have an extension that indicates what kind of files they are, instead of a
> > prefix.  I'd suggest .cfa (for .cfagent, which AFAIK is the interpreter).
>
> I think most folks use a 'cf.' prefix for imported config files and a '.conf'
> for configs that the agent itself knows to look for.
>
> A cfengine suffix would be nice from a syntax-highlighting standpoint too.  I
> would assert that it is important to make such an animal optional.

	Oh, I agree.  This is just to regularise the "standard" 
installation, not to make anyone do anything different than what they're 
already doing.

> I'd also recommend a different suffix for the cfservd.conf file, if we are
> going to do this (as cfa seems to imply cfAgent).

	That would probably clear up some of the other confusion going 
around.  Good idea.  I'd say leave it as .conf.


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