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authorJoan Touzet <joant@atypical.net>2017-04-21 16:47:35 -0400
committerJoan Touzet <joant@atypical.net>2017-04-21 16:47:35 -0400
commit07aca8021c8f708f4f58af908e83db148649404d (patch)
treef25747e24b393c9794fed18954febe263397724d /rel
parent7dc5dba24617803b33e79e94d1e97a304083f830 (diff)
downloadcouchdb-07aca8021c8f708f4f58af908e83db148649404d.tar.gz
Add and document default.d/local.d directories
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diff --git a/rel/overlay/etc/default.d/README b/rel/overlay/etc/default.d/README
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+CouchDB default configuration files
+
+Files found under the etc/default.d directory that end with .ini are
+parsed within couchdb(1) at startup.
+
+This directory is intended for distribution-specific overrides of
+CouchDB defaults. Package maintainers should be placing overrides in
+this directory.
+
+System administrator should place overrides in the etc/local.d directory
+instead.
diff --git a/rel/overlay/etc/local.d/README b/rel/overlay/etc/local.d/README
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+CouchDB local configuration files
+
+Files found under the etc/default.d directory that end with .ini are
+parsed within couchdb(1) at startup.
+
+This directory is intended for system administrator overrides of CouchDB
+defaults. Package maintainers should be placing overrides in the
+etc/default.d directory instead.