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Configuration modified by Christian Ferrari

Christian Ferrari — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:03:37 -0000

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+This page is no more maintained, the current one is at http://www.tiian.org/flom/Configuration.html
 # Flom configuration #
 Flom uses a cascading configuration principle: every parameter is inspected in 5 different locations and the last occurrence overloads the previous ones.
 Every time flom starts, it looks for parameters following this order:

Configuration modified by Christian Ferrari

Christian Ferrari — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 12:09:21 -0000

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 1. hard wired values: they are inside source code and are ever available
 2. system default config file: if you didn't change it at *configure time* (command *configure* before command *make*), the standard location would be **/usr/local/etc/flom.conf**; if you changed installation paths, you should determine where **flom.conf** file must be put
-3. user default config file: file **.flom** searched inside directory described by environment var **HOME** or by **/etc/passwd** content if **$HOME** is not set
+3. user default config file: file **.flom** searched inside directory described by environment var **$HOME** or by **/etc/passwd** content if **$HOME** is not set
 4. user custom config file: a custom file you specify using "-c" ("--config-file") command line argument
 5. specific command line arguments like "-r" ("--resource-name")

Configuration modified by Christian Ferrari

Christian Ferrari — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 12:05:36 -0000

Flom configuration

Flom uses a cascading configuration principle: every parameter is inspected in 5 different locations and the last occurrence overloads the previous ones.
Every time flom starts, it looks for parameters following this order:

hard wired values: they are inside source code and are ever available
system default config file: if you didn't change it at configure time (command configure before command make), the standard location would be /usr/local/etc/flom.conf; if you changed installation paths, you should determine where flom.conf file must be put
user default config file: file .flom searched inside directory described by environment var HOME or by /etc/passwd content if $HOME is not set
user custom config file: a custom file you specify using "-c" ("--config-file") command line argument
specific command line arguments like "-r" ("--resource-name")

System default file, user default config file, user custom config file must adhere to the same syntax; an example file is available at /usr/local/share/doc/flom/flom.conf.

Using configuration files is not mandatory, you can specify every parameter using command line arguments; many times it's more convenient to store a set of parameters inside a configuration file and use command line arguments for the remaining parameters.
The suggestion is to copy /usr/local/share/doc/flom/flom.conf to the desired destination (/usr/local/etc/flom.conf, $HOME/.flom, my_flom_conf_file) and customize it as necessary.