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InWorldz Halcyon 3d virtual reality world simulator
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Grid Services Command Line Parameters #384

Closed Vinhold closed 6 years ago

Vinhold commented 7 years ago

I just checked with Ricky on this one. The User, Grid, and Messaging services are hard coded for reading Halcyon.ini from the local folder. It looks like a simple "copy the code block" from Halcyon.exe and put in for the each of the services where they read the Halcyon.ini. This will allow the services to also read from a common configuration source for the Master Halcyon.ini as well as an instance override Halcyon.ini source as it is available for the Halcyon.exe.

Optional wish is to have each one's config data to be also URL or Path location. This would greatly help in management of multiple instances of these services.

appurist commented 6 years ago

Hmm, I think the changes to use a two-level hierarchy of ini files were done and released some time ago. Is this Issue completely resolved now?

Vinhold commented 6 years ago

I am not sure that the Grid services actually allow a command line option to open Halcyon.ini from someplace other than the local folder. If that can be done now, this is no longer an issue.

appurist commented 6 years ago

There are two options, one for --inifile and one for --inimaster as well as --inifolder for specifying the folder and you can see the full list here.

InWorldz doesn't use them so If there is any problem with those we may not be aware. Let me know if they don't "just work". You can also specify any of those in the [Startup] section of the Halcyon.ini file, although I'm not clear how the catch-22 in doing so would work. ;) (I think if the Halcyon.ini file specified different startup locations, it would affect where options were read from thereafter.)

The handling of these options can be seen here.

kf6kjg commented 6 years ago

Actually what Vin's talking about is in places like the User Server's Main Class where only the single local Halcyon.ini is loaded. This differs from what the region does. I've not yet had the time to fix it implement the new features so that the other servers act the same as the region server.

appurist commented 6 years ago

Oh, this refers to the central grid services, rather than region servers. Yeah, the startup code is different there.

kf6kjg commented 6 years ago

This issue was moved to HalcyonGrid/halcyon#6