On 4 Jan 2010 at 9:27, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, David Lord wrote: > > > I think Davide prefers the xmail options all to be in commandline > > whilst I'd prefer an xmail.conf but it's not that important an > > issue for me. My commandline options are set in /etc/rc.d/xmail > > but on linux I've no idea. > > Let me be clear again on that. > People wanted command line arguments inside the server.tab file, which is > NOT the place from them. Command line arguments are parsed one at program > startup, and changing them after that results in nothing, since the > actions and configuration that are driven by them, are only performed at > boot time. > The server.tab file has, and had always been, a configuration file whose > options can be changed at any time, and immediately after are they visible > to the user. > The server.tab file is NOT the correct place for command line options. > Another file, like conf.tab or something, might be. Although do you really > need an extra file to pass comand line options, when you have the > environment (on Unix) and the registry (on Windows)?
I see that point very well and agree with it, it's just that to me /etc/rc.d/ seems a strange and forgetable place for configuration options. It's easy enough to arrange to pick up the commandline parameters from rc.conf or rc.local though so I might try that. cheers David _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail
