Re: [pcp] Detecting PCP Installation Location?

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> On 04/05/16 19:35, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do we know the paths pcp.conf might live on "typical" non-Windows
> > installations? On Linux it's most likely /etc/pcp.conf, on BSDs perhaps
> > /etc/pcp.conf or /usr/local/etc/pcp.conf (?), how about OSX or Solaris?
> > IOW, if I try to detect PCP_SYSCONF_DIR from /etc/pcp.conf and if that
> > fails, then from /usr/local/etc/pcp.conf, should it most likely work on
> > Linux/BSD/OSX/Solaris?
> >
> > Note that I'm not much interested in test installations where it could
> > be /tmp/pcp/etc/pcp/pcp.conf, in those cases it's up to the user to deal
> > with it.
> 
> Marko,
> 
> On all platforms it can be found in $PCP_DIR/etc/pcp.conf ... and for
> all platforms (that I know about, today), $PCP_DIR is unset by default.
> 

It's only Windows that sets this, no other platforms.  It has occasionally
been used for other purposes (testing & a Red Hat SCL prototype, once upon
a time).

cheers.

--
Nathan