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.. highlight:: ini
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Overview
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==========
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For more general background on Rattail config, see
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:doc:`/base/config/index`.
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While it is possible to store config in a DB (see
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:doc:`/base/config/db`), we will not address that here. All config is
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presumed to exist in files, at least from the perspective of the
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Rattail File Monitor service. As a rule we avoid DB interactions in
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the filemon to keep its operation as simple as possible. (Everything
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"interesting" happens on the Linux server.)
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The filemon service uses the Windows API to obtain the "default"
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location of the config file. It is not possible to directly tell the
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service which config file to use, it always will read the default
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path, which is: ``C:\ProgramData\rattail\rattail.conf``
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However we still want it to read ``filemon.conf`` instead of
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``rattail.conf`` - and that is possible by way of a special config
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entry within ``rattail.conf``::
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[rattail.config]
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winsvc.RattailFileMonitor = C:\ProgramData\rattail\filemon.conf
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So really when the service starts it first reads ``rattail.conf``, but
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sees that special entry and then reads ``filemon.conf`` *instead*.
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End result is as if it just read ``filemon.conf`` to begin with. (See
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:doc:`/base/config/inheritance` for more on how some of that works.)
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