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Typical File Paths
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Here we'll describe some typical locations and filenames for config.
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App-Wide
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Every app will need at least one config file. The convention is to name this
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file ``rattail.conf`` and place it directly in your app dir, e.g.
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``/srv/envs/poser/app/rattail.conf``
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Many apps will benefit from having multiple config files, primarily for the
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sake of organization and "separation of concerns". A robust app with several
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features then might have the following, all in its app dir:
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``rattail.conf`` is considered the "core" config file for the app, which means
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that no matter how you run the app, this file should be (in)directly referenced
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somehow, so that it affects the runtime behavior.
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``quiet.conf`` is meant to be used for ad-hoc app commands which you run from
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the console. It is a thin wrapper around ``rattail.conf`` and merely tries to
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cut down on some of the output (logging) "noise" from commands.
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``cron.conf`` is also a thin wrapper, which cuts down on command output "noise"
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and uses a custom logging file.
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``web.conf`` is meant to be used by the standard web app only; it defines the
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config needed to run the web app and uses a custom logging file.
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``webapi.conf`` is meant to be used by the web API only; it defines the config
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needed to run the web API and uses a custom logging file.
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``datasync.conf`` is meant to be used only by the ``datasync`` commands; it
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defines the config needed to run datasync and uses a custom logging file.
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``filemon.conf`` is meant to be used only by the ``filemon`` commands; it
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defines the config needed to run filemon and uses a custom logging file.
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``bouncer.conf`` is meant to be used only by the ``bouncer`` commands; it
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defines the config needed to run bouncer and uses a custom logging file.
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``mailmon.conf`` is meant to be used only by the ``mailmon`` commands; it
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defines the config needed to run mailmon and uses a custom logging file.
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.. _machine-wide-config:
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Machine-Wide
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If you have several apps running on a given machine, you may wish to share some
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"common" config among all the apps. If so you can make a "machine-wide" config
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file to store that common config.
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The convention here is to place the file at ``/etc/rattail/rattail.conf``
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although you could do whatever you like.
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.. _site-wide-config:
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Site-Wide
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This is similar to the machine-wide scenario, but if you have multiple
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*machines* which run apps, you may wish to share the common config in such a
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way that all machines could access it. We call this a "site-wide" config file.
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How exactly you go about making this file available is beyond our scope here,
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but a hint is to use Samba/CIFS. True location of the file would be anywhere
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you like, on whichever machine you elected to be the provider of this common
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config.
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