Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#145 closed task (fixed)

flarmclient only finds config files, if installed in home directory

Reported by: dominic Owned by: dominic
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Ground-Station Version: 1.2.0 (Usability)
Keywords: Cc:

Description

flarmclient only finds its associated config files correctly, if installed in /home/pi/. Installing it in /home/pi/flarmradar will corrupt the default path search routine.

Proposal: Search for config files relative to location of flarmclient.pl. This will enable users to place the flarmclient in any directory structure.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by dominic

Status: new → assigned

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by dominic

Status: assigned → accepted

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by smoser

Targeted installation method is via a software package. Then the Unix-style approach is the correct one.

Having multiple clients running is probably something that the developers want to do, ... and then the option -c to use multiple config files in different locations should be sufficient.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by smoser

Resolution: → fixed
Status: accepted → closed

That is now configurable (option -c).

The algorithm for finding the config file is as follows:

  • check for option -c, use the indicated file if this option is given
  • check in /etc/flarmclient.conf, use this file if present
  • check if a file named flarmclient.conf exists in the local directory
  • otherwise: bail out
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