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| author | louiz’ <louiz@louiz.org> | 2017-04-21 11:19:36 +0200 |
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| committer | louiz’ <louiz@louiz.org> | 2017-04-21 11:19:36 +0200 |
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Configuration options can be overridden by setting env values
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diff --git a/doc/biboumi.1.rst b/doc/biboumi.1.rst index 3eaf235..aeeefec 100644 --- a/doc/biboumi.1.rst +++ b/doc/biboumi.1.rst @@ -35,15 +35,19 @@ details on its content. Configuration ============= -The configuration file uses a simple format of the form -``option=value``. +The configuration file uses a simple format of the form ``option=value``. + +The values from the configuration file can be overridden by environment +variables, with the name all in upper case and prefixed with "BIBOUMI_". +For example, if the environment contains “BIBOUMI_PASSWORD=blah", this will +override the value of the “password” option in the configuration file. Sending SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 (see kill(1)) to the process will force it to re-read the configuration and make it close and re-open the log files. You can use this to change any configuration option at runtime, or do a log rotation. -Here is a description of each possible option: +Here is a description of every possible option: hostname -------- |