[pca] pca-proxy.cgi and config files

[Rajiv Gunja]

Martin,
Thanks for clearing that up. Now I can worry less about multiple pca.conf
file if an Engineer gets adventurous.

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
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2008/10/17 Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>

> Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>
>> Martin,I assume that client servers will still use pca.conf file and will
>> search for it in this order a.) ./ current directory b.) /etc/ and c.)
>> /usr/local/
>>
>
> pca itself will continue to read pca.conf, it's only pca-proxy.cgi which is
> affected. I might have confused you with the server/client terms I used -
> forget about that. If pca is run, it reads (in this order):
>
>    dirname($0)/pca.conf
>    dirname($0)/../etc/pca.conf
>    /etc/pca.conf
>    $HOME/.pca
>    ./pca.conf
>
> When pca-proxy.cgi runs, it reads (in this order):
>
>    dirname($0)/../etc/pca-proxy.conf
>    /etc/pca-proxy.conf
>    ./pca-proxy.conf
>
> where "dirname($0)" is the directory where pca is installed. Settings in a
> later configuration file override settings in previously reads configuration
> files.
>
> Martin.
>
>
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