[Box-Admins] How does Jenkins start?

[Ken Causey]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Box-Admins] How does Jenkins start?
> From: Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, February 09, 2014 3:14 pm
> To: Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com>
> 
...
> > What causes you to doubt the use of /etc/default/jenkins to set the
> > variable?  If you look at /etc/init.d/jenkins there is a line there that
> > sources (loads) /etc/default/jenkins prior to the use of the variable.
> > But I see that it is now set at the bottom so likely you decided to try
> > this and I'm a bit late.
> 
> I haven't edited any files yet.
> 
> In FreeBSD at least, /etc/default/* isn't for editing; the foo service
> script will read in the /etc/default/foo but then also read in another
> script (in FreeBSD that's /etc/rc.config, IIRC) that overrides the
> defaults.
> 
> It's been quite a few months since I last worked on an init.d service,
> and expected a similar setup: some kind of source of overrides.
> 
> frank
> 
> > Ken

I agree with you that it seems there should be another level, for local
configuration, in a separate location but I don't believe that has
become standard policy in Debian.  Of course many programs will have
their own separate configuration files and I have to wonder if what you
want to change can't be changed in a jenkins specific config file.  But
I double checked and /etc/default/jenkins is marked in the package as a
configuration file meaning that upgrading the package won't simply stomp
the file before asking.

Ken