Include in configuration files

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Thu Jan 30 12:51:48 CET 2014


On 30 Jan 2014, at 02:41, Pierluigi Rolando wrote:

> Maybe it's common knowledge among power users, but today I found out about a very nifty feature of BIRD: the include directive can be used pretty much anywhere in a configuration file, including inside a protocol section. I don't know if this is intended or not as include is described as a global option in the documentation.
> If it's an official feature I think it's worth documenting. If not, I think it's worth making one :-)

I'm hoping it's an official feature as we use it extensively. We have a little snippet that is written by a process, and makes bird reload its config. This way the body of the config remains unchanged. It's very useful.

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Alex Bligh







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