Loading config from /etc/cow folder

[fzerorubigd]

Its helpful to try to load config from /etc/cow folder, IF the ~/.cow is not available.

[cyfdecyf]

Good suggestion. I'll implement this recently.

[cyfdecyf]

@fzerorubigd let's switch to this issue to discuss. What about the following behavior:

• The order to find config file:
  1. Get from command line option
  2. if not specified on command line, try $HOME/.cow/rc
  3. fallback to /etc/cow/rc
  4. exit if there's no config file
• Once we resolved the config file, blocked and direct file are to be read in the same directory with the config file
• For stat file, it defaults to the same directory with config file, but user can specify it's location with an option in config file

[fzerorubigd]

I think it should be a config directory, not the config file.
and there is no need to another hardcoded path /etc/cow (yes I know it was my first suggestion :) )
if config path provided from command line (i.e -c option) then load it from that directory, ( the default is $HOME/.cow ) and if the config is not available in that folder, exit with error.

the /etc/cow folder is a unix std, and we have alot of windows user :), and if we can provide -c option, then there is no need to use another hard coded path. service files (rc.d or service file for systemd or anything else) could use the -c option

[fzerorubigd]

@cyfdecyf
And about the stat file, I couldn't agree more.

[cyfdecyf]

I took a look at nginx and dnsmasq's options. For nginx you can specify config file, while for dnsmasq you can either set config file or config directory.

I'd prefer to specify the config file, as only this file is mandatory for running cow. This also allows users to specify different config files in the same directory. (I do this when debugging cow.)

I agree with you for removing /etc/cow path. So

• for Unix, let's default to $HOME/.cow/rc
• for Windows, let's default to ./rc

For stat, let's add an option in config file.

Hope my company work goes smooth so I can finish this feature this week.

[fzerorubigd]

@cyfdecyf starting work on stat file position ....