On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Ian Main wrote:
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:24 +0100
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:10:41AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:55:36AM -0700, Ian Main wrote:
> > > - Make it less chatty, but log stuff
> >
> > Configurable use of syslog() would be a good idea. For sake of consistency
> > I'd recommend looking at the libvirtd daemon, and its command line arg
> > handling - see qemud/qemud.c file and the main() method in it. Pretty
> > much all the libvirtd argv would make sense for libvirt-qpid agent.
>
> Likewise, you'll probably want a configuration file for stuff like
> the IP address rather than passing everything on the command line.
> A file in /etc/libvirt/libvirt-qpid.conf would be a good location,
> preferrably following the same syntax & config arg naming as the
> existing libvirtd.conf there. It'd be fairly easy to take our
> 'virConf' stuff in src/conf.c and use it in your daemon - just
> c++-ify it as desired.
Well I'm glad you generally approve :).
I've done a number of things since this announcement:
- added getopt_long option parsing.
- to solve the config issue I used /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-qpid environment
variable to pass in broker host and port. Maybe a config file would be
better I'm not sure.
A combination of both is usually desired. The recommended split of
responsibility is as follows:
- /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-qpid - control how the daemon is started
and controlled by the boot process. This is usually restricted
to things like passing a --daemon flag (if neeed), configuring
syslog levels, but not stuff with has a functional effect on
the daemon. So not IP addresses / ports / etc. It also usually
has a catch all generic variable to allow the admin to give
arbitrary command line args.
- /etc/libvirt/libvirt-qpid.conf - control functional behaviour
of the daemon. TCP port/addresses, authentication (if applicable),
connection URI, important stuff like that.
Daniel
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