configuration files for Hurd servers?

[Moritz Schulte]

Hi,

was there ever a plan to make Hurd servers support configuration
files?  Right now the only way to configure them is via command line
options.  I think it could be convenient in the future to have them
support configuration files; there could be per-server files and
files, which apply to all servers and could set some defaults like
e.g. a verbosity level for all servers (when they use a syslog
mechanism..).

Configuration files for servers running as root could be stored in
/etc/hurd/, while configuration for servers running as users could be
stored in ~/etc/hurd/.

Configuration file parsing could be easily done by linking the servers
against libguile (wasn't it the plan once the use Guile as a "system
scripting-language"? ...).

Just an idea - what do people think about it?

                moritz
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