Re: [Dbbalancer-users] Startup and shutdown script...

[Andrew M. <an...@ca...>]

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 11:48, Daniel Varela Santoalla wrote:
> On Tue 06 Nov 2001 01:02, you wrote:
> 
> > Good point.  Would it be possible to add a parameter into the
> > configuration file which overrode the default, but was in turn
> > overridden by the command line?
> 
> But we also would have to keep redundant configuration files... A pair of 
> reader & writer always share a config file.

Well, the sysadmin could do it with a symbolic link...


> a) Keeping a config file for each process. This way is easy to know how many 
> process to spawn from the number of config files. The config file should have 
> to somewhat say if the process is a reader or a writer with a new parameter.
> 
> b) Keeping a config file for each "source". This would mean that a config 
> file could spawn a "reader", a "writer" or both, which also would requiere 
> new parameter, with three possible values. In the case of reader & writer 
> process the same invocation could fork two times, so that the startup script 
> didn't have to know about config settings...

I think this would be cooler :-)


> This is a remain from when XML or TXT files could be used for config. The 
> check avoided that a XML file was feeded to the TXT module or the opposite. 
> It's no longer necesary and I'll remove it.

OK, great.

Cheers,
					Andrew.
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