Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Preposal: ethereal.conf

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From: "Mark H. Wood" <mwood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 08:08:12 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:53:10AM -0500, David Frascone wrote:
> > Ben Fowler <wapdev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, came up with a great idea!  A place for
> > dissectors/etc to read their settings from, ethereal.conf.
> > 
> > So, I prepose this: a file, ethereal.conf, with the following format:
> > 
> > <package-name>:<argument string>
> > 
> > It would be placed in /usr/local/lib/ethereal/ethereal.conf
> 
> ...which wouldn't allow different users on the same machine to have
> different settings for the parameters.

Good point.

[snip]
> (I use "${libdir}" to refer to the directory in which the file appears -
> it might be "/usr/lib" if Ethereal was configured to be installed in
> "/usr/lib", or, instead, we might go for "/usr/share" or
> "/usr/local/share", as, so far, all files in "~/.ethereal" are, I think,
> text files, and thus shareable between different platforms.)

Why not /etc (or /usr/local/etc:/usr/etc:/etc) as with almost all other
*.conf files?

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@xxxxxxxxx
2000-05-05 13:27:15 GMT -- still no icebergs in the White River