Re: configuration files for Hurd servers?

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de> writes:

> was there ever a plan to make Hurd servers support configuration
> files?  Right now the only way to configure them is via command line
> options.  I think it could be convenient in the future to have them
> support configuration files; there could be per-server files and
> files, which apply to all servers and could set some defaults like
> e.g. a verbosity level for all servers (when they use a syslog
> mechanism..).

There has been some talk about having translators store configuration
information in the "underlying node" upon which they sit.  In
practice, it has been simpler so far to store such information in the
command line.