Jeffrey writes:

> Just as an FYI, it is possible to use perl code within config files so
> that you can use a single config file yet still customize
> configurations by pc (or groups of pc's) without having to duplicate
> changes across multiple relatively similar config files each time you
> change a parameter.
> 
> For example, I have a number of windows machines and one linux server.
> For the windows machines, I use a single config file in
> /etc/BackupPC/pc and then create links to it for each of my windows
> machines.
> 
> I then use perl conditional statements to make some configurations
> unique by pc (or group of pc's).
> 
> The trick is that $ARGV[0] is the name of the config file (or link)
> called and thus can be used to determine the machine.
> Personally, I find this trick very helpful...

Yes, a nice trick.  But there are two caveats:

  - the CGI editor won't preserve any of the in-line perl code

  - re-writing a config file (when upgrading with configure.pl and
    the CGI editor) might break since the in-line perl formatting
    might not be interpreted correctly.

Craig

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