geth start-up configuration file #2067
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This will not be implemented for numerous reason and one of them is maintenance. Configuration files tend to bite people in the ass and therefor we'd rather not see it implemented. I don't think |
I would like to petition/request that this be reconsidered as a feature. @obscuren you say that they tend to bite people in the ass. I don't see why the implementation of a config file cannot be done so that it protects people from the common pitfalls.
As for maintenance overhead, it has been almost a year since this was first proposed. I understand there is overhead here, but configuration via config file is extremely common and |
Added in #13875, released in 1.6.0. |
Would be nice to have a configuration file that has the various geth command line parameters (JSON, yaml, ini, dotfile, etc...). Today we get around this by creating a shell script but it would be nice to have something better for automated deploys of geth nodes.
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