Hi Fabrice,

Oh, I didn't know that it was read to generate values for the other daemons.

I would like to push for not generating any config files for qserv 
services during setup or installation. Instead, we create a template 
qserv.conf.in, that is human-editable. When trying to start any service 
(czar, worker, proxy, mysql?, etc.), the startup script reads that 
qserv.conf.in and generates the configuration for that particular 
service, logs it in the appropriate file, and starts it. If we do this, 
the services should almost always be consistently configured (or will 
be, after a process kill/restart).

For example, the startup script for the czar reads the main 
qserv.conf.in, generates the right config file, and starts the czar 
process. Each time you start/restart xrootd and cmsd you generate lsp.cf 
from qserv.conf.in.

Brickbats welcome.
-Daniel


On 05/27/2014 11:19 PM, Fabrice Jammes wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> Indeed, we should rename this file. But it does not only configure
> qserv_czar, it also contains the most important parameters used by all
> other Qserv services : mysql-proxy, mysql, xrootd, zookeeper.
>
> This file is there to avoid that, by default, the sysadmin has to edit all
> Qserv services configuration files : all most important parameters are
> centralized here (this set isn't frozen).
>
> NOTE : If sysadmin want to do a very fine tuning, the he will have to edit
> templates and run scons, or edit manually all Qserv configuration files.
>
> Maybe we could rename this file to something like :
>
> - configure-whole-qserv.conf
> - global-qserv.conf
> - qserv-services.conf
> - overall-qserv-configuration.in
> - qserv-motherconf.in
>
> Or something else which reflects that this file's parameters will be used
> to feed all templates in order to build configuration files for all Qserv
> services.
>
> The client configuration file could also be renamed to
> qserv-integration-tests.conf ? As, for now it's only used by integration
> tests procedure
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Fabrice
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 9:06 pm, Daniel L. Wang wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>>> ./admin/templates/install/admin/qserv.conf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can we standardize on one?
>>>>
>>>>
>> Also, can we rename it to qserv_czar.conf?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Daniel
>>
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