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- From: moacs11!walra@relay.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: Re: [MINTOS] looking for data (was: Re: standard paths)
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 14:59:46 +0100
-
- In <9401191119.AA21116@nice.ethz.ch>, Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> wrote:
-
- > > > no, the name is quite well chosen, my NeXT has a similar file
- > > > (/etc/hostconfig). This one sets things like IP number, hostname and other
- > > > network related stuff...
- > >
- > > I respectfully disagree. The hostconfig file on your NeXT is not at all
- > > similar to the proposed host.cnf on the Atari. The host.cnf file could
- > > contain just any kind of data needed by any kind of program. It may
- > > contain lines like:
- > >
- > > MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/gem/man
- > > GXXINC=/usr/g++include
- > > EXINIT=set lines=60 scroll=40 ai eb sm mo
- >
- > these are environment variables and should not be set globally. Every
- > user should defines these in his .cshrc or whatever his shell uses.
- > host.cnf should IMHO only define things that are really host dependant
- > (like hostname and IP numbers...)
-
- We do agree on what should not be in /etc/hostconfig (host.cnf). The
- original proposal was to use a file with exactly that name to store
- pointers to data specific to one application.
-
- Quoting from the original post by Bjarne Pohlers:
-
- > In c:\etc\host.cnf there are entries like
- > ETCDIR=/dev/u/etc
- > LIBDIR=/dev/u/usr/lib
- > HOSTNAME=<Guess>
- > etc.
- >
- > For special programs one could add a line
- > PROGRAMNAME_CNF=<location of program special-.cnf file>
- > in which setups can be done which affect only one program
-
- Do you think that /etc/hostconfig (host.cnf) is the right place to store
- the PROGRAMNAME_CNF= lines? I don't think it is, so I suggested to use
- another name.
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-