Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:02:27 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <ernsth@nl.euro.net> To: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@syncrontech.com>, java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tomcat ports and daemonctl.c suggestion Message-ID: <200205160902.27296.ernsth@nl.euro.net> In-Reply-To: <200205160852.56738.ernsth@nl.euro.net> References: <200205160832.25618.ari.suutari@syncrontech.com> <200205160852.56738.ernsth@nl.euro.net>
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It would be nice if we could set this up in a way to we could switch to XML
config files in the future, without having to rewrite all of the code. We
could factor the loading of the configuration settings out into a different
source file.
Ernst
On Thursday 16 May 2002 08:52, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> > Would it be a good idea to change daemonctl program
> > (which us used to start tomcat installed via ports) so that
> > instead of editing the source automatically during port
> > install (for adding information about JAVA_HOME, APP_HOME etc)
> > these values would be written to a .conf file in /usr/local/etc ?
>
> Yeah. This sounds like a good idea. We would then have configuration files
> named:
> o jakarta-tomcat3.conf,
> o jakarta-tomcat4.conf
> o jboss2.conf
> o orion.conf
> etc...
>
> Right ?
>
> > Then, it would be easy the change these values after installation
> > if necessary (to add jvm parameters, to change to different jdk etc)
> > (If daemonctl is installed as tomcat4ctl, the config file could
> > automagically be tomcat4ctl.conf)
>
> Yeah, sounds very good!
>
> > I volunteer to do the coding if this makes sense.
>
> That would be great. I would really appreciate that. If you really want to
> do so, then lets discuss the exact details a bit further...
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Ernst
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