On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Robert Treat wrote: > I don't know if I agree with that. Most servers (apache for instance) have > configuration variables on where files are going to live, not command line > options.
Not where it involves *critical* files: OPTIONS -R libexecdir This option is only available if Apache was built with the SHARED_CORE rule enabled which forces the Apache core code to be placed into a dynamic shared object (DSO) file. This file is searched in a hardcoded path under Server- Root per default. Use this option if you want to override it. > Well, as with most (all?) GUC variables, wouldn't you have the option of > doing postmaster -o "pgxlog=/dev/null" and have the same functionality > as -X ? True, but then that negates the whole argument about not having a command line option, no? Which I believe was the whole argument on this ... no? > Shouldn't this work the other way around? Use what's in the conf file > unless I explicitly state otherwise? IIRC that's how it works with -i God, I wish I had thought to note it at the time ... one of the things I did when I dove into this was to check how various Unix daemons were doing it, now I can't recall which I was looking at that mentioned the config file overriding the command line options, but you are correct, the command line should override the conf file ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])