Les Mikesell wrote at about 08:05:33 -0500 on Thursday, June 7, 2012:
 > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <tyler AT tolaris DOT com> 
 > wrote:
 > > On 2012-06-06 17:45, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > >> I am able to achieve most of what you wish by doing most of my
 > >> customization in the individual host-specific config files since
 > >> variables set there override variables set in config.pl
 > >>
 > >> Alternatively, one could add a line of perl code at the end of the
 > >> master config.pl file to source a set of customizations that would
 > >> again overwrite the defaults. Then after an upgrade, you would only
 > >> need to add back that sourcing line
 > >
 > > The standard behaviour is that the daemon uses a default value if no
 > > setting is found in the config file. Config files are for configuration
 > > (away from defaults). Unfortunately, this isn't the case here.
 > 
 > But there are 'package' defaults for code/configs as shipped and
 > updated in a distribution and 'local' defaults that the admin usually
 > wants to keep - and which will conflict with updates of the
 > package.

Of course, but at least by separating out your changes it makes it
easier to update since you only need to check those variables to see
if they have changed... So I find that separating out my changes both
keeps everything 'cleaner' and makes updating easier. YMMV.

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