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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2026-06-09 03:54:33 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2026-06-09 03:54:33 +0000
commite7dc6510922fc3ed14df061a1bac552da59b62e9 (patch)
treec0c4c0496feeff650c5544b5e7d9b2b43b08e6a2 /doc/s6-frontend.html
parent86d072b07cff432b3ab558ab6747260828bec192 (diff)
downloads6-frontend-e7dc6510922fc3ed14df061a1bac552da59b62e9.tar.gz
Change default storelist and configuration file
Default storelist becomes /usr/share/s6/sources:/etc/s6/sources Default configuration file becomes /etc/s6.conf Conffile environment variable becomes S6_CONF
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/s6-frontend.html')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/s6-frontend.html b/doc/s6-frontend.html
index c6b5d5c..9d563f7 100644
--- a/doc/s6-frontend.html
+++ b/doc/s6-frontend.html
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ users should call <a href="s6.html">s6</a> instead.
<ul>
<li> <a href="s6.html">s6</a> gets the name of its configuration file from the
-<tt>S6_FRONTEND_CONF</tt> environment variable, or from the compiled-in default if
-this variable is unset. Normally this default is <tt>/etc/s6-frontend.conf</tt>. </li>
+<tt>S6_CONF</tt> environment variable, or from the compiled-in default if
+this variable is unset. Normally this default is <tt>/etc/s6.conf</tt>. </li>
<li> This configuration file (let's call it <em>conf</em>) contains
-<a href="s6-frontend.conf.html">variable definitions</a> that set the default for
+<a href="s6.conf.html">variable definitions</a> that set the default for
all the parts of the s6 system. </li>
<li> <a href="s6.html">s6</a> rewrites itself into
<code>envfile -I <em>conf</em> -- s6-frontend <em>args...</em></code> </li>
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ performs the work described in the documents linked from the <a href="s6.html">s
<p>
The separation between <a href="s6.html">s6</a> and s6-frontend is really just a
-trick to avoid writing an additional parser for the <a href="s6-frontend.conf.html">s6-frontend.conf</a>
+trick to avoid writing an additional parser for the <a href="s6.conf.html">s6.conf</a>
configuration file. Using <a
href="//skarnet.org/software/execline/envfile.html">envfile</a> to read the
configuration was a natural fit because the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a> set of tools is used by