Re: Node dir
  By: deon to Digital Man on Mon Nov 23 2020 10:30 am

 >   Re: Node dir
 >   By: Digital Man to deon on Sun Nov 22 2020 01:21 pm
 >
 > Howdy,
 >
 >  >> How is the "first" main.cnf created?
 >  DM> Not sure I follow. A sysop should always start with the main.cnf from
 >  DM> the source repo.
 >
 > Is there a way it can be "recreated" programmatically?
 >
 > I'm trying to build my docker container so that the "nodes" points to
 > /opt/sbbs/nodes/xxx, not /opt/sbbs/nodesX/.
 >
 > Sure, I get after the image starts, I can personalise the configuration
 > (that is then stored in the persistent store), so that future invocations of
 > the container (with that config) points to /opt/sbbs/nodes/, but I'm trying
 > to improve the first start for a new environment by reducing the number of
 > steps that need to be done (that really should be done programmatically).
 >
 > I could add my customised main.cnf to the image (with the right path) - but
 > then if you make any upstream changes to main.cnf, I'd have to remember to
 > rebuild my customised one.
 >
 > I can work around it, but looking for a less manual path.

Take a look at exec/load/cnflib.js, That's how we programmatically (from JS
anyway) modify .cnf files these days.
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