Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed.conf

[Hilmar Berger]

Hi, 

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:45:01 -0800
J Busser <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>> The servers/databases to which a client can connect are 
>> provided/defined as a profile inside the file gnumed.conf found (most 
>> likely) in the directory /home/user_name/.gnumed/. If not, take a 
>> look at the file gnumed.conf.example in the directory 
>> /some_dir/gnumed/client/etc/.
> 
> So I was wondering about the "If not" part. Is it intended that the 
> /client/etc/ file serves as the "default" but can be "overridden" by 
> a file in /home/user_name/... ? Would it depend if gnumed was started 
> from inside /home/user_name/.gnumed/?

As far as I understand, an appropriate gnumed.conf should be installed in the 
users homedir on client installation. 
gnumed/client/etc serves as a place where you can find reasonable defaults 
which you (or your installation module) can copy to your homedir as an template.
Gnumed should always lookup /home/user_name/.gnumed/gnumed.conf at startup (at 
least that's what I remember).
 
> Andrea's Debian installer puts the client under /usr/bin/python2.3 so 
> I gather any users logged into such a machine would all access a 
> shared copy of the client that keeps only one configuration?
I don't remember the .conf file hierarchy well. However, gmCfg.py tells me the 
following:

The module will look for the config file in the following standard              
places:                                                                         
                                                                                
1) programmer supplied arguments                                                
2) user supplied command line (getopt style):   --conf-file=<a file name>       
3) user supplied $aName_DIR environment variable (all uppercase)                
4) ~/.<aDir>/<aName>.conf                                                       
5) ~/.<aName>.conf                                                              
6) /etc/<aDir>/<aName>.conf                                                     
7) /etc/<aName>.conf                                                            
8) ./<aName>.conf               - last resort for DOS/Win                       

So, homedir/.gnumed will override any shared gnumed.conf in /etc/ or elsewhere.

Hilmar
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