multiple argus config files

[Carter Bullard]

Yes, I understand.  This was the result of a long
discussion about a year ago, as to ARGUSPATH and
what config files would be etc....

Would it be better if the -F option caused the
program to read only a single config file?

Carter

Carter Bullard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Fulton [mailto:R.FULTON at auckland.ac.nz] 
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 10:44 PM
> To: carter at qosient.com
> Cc: argus-list at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: multiple argus config files
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 16:04, Carter Bullard wrote:
> > Hey Russell,
> >    Because argus can support multiple output files,
> > it will support whatever number of output files that
> > are in the collective group of configuration files.
> > 
> > So its doing what its suppose to do.  Now, we have
> > the -X option for argus to ignore any configuration files
> > that it may have discovered, and use just the one on
> > the command line.
> > 
> >    Will the -X option solve your problem?
> >
> 
> Yup!  It might be a good idea to make this the default and have -X say
> that argus should read and use all the config files it can.  
> It is easy (if 
> you are as messy as me ;-) to end up with old config files 
> laying around
> and I can see considerable opportunities for confusion with 
> argus reading 
> more than one config file unintentionally.
> 
> -- 
> Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
> The University of Auckland,  New Zealand
> 
> 
>