Re: systemd service and /etc/default/

[Ludovico Cavedon <ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 08:48:40PM -0700, Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>> > 3) Teach ntopng to understand /etc/ntopng.conf natively and migrate the
>> > settings there.
>>
>> yes, that would be an option. I forgot to add the requirement "without
>> patching upstream code" :)
>
> Debian is not the only distribution that will ever encounter this
> problem.  Rather than hacking around it downstream, why not fix it the
> right way upstream?  /etc/default almost always represents a
> Debian-specific hack.

Well, I do not see this as an upstream bug that needs to be fixed.
If no interface is given, ntopng will autodetect the network
interfaces. If you want to use a different set, you pass them to it on
the command line.

I agree it could be improved by adding support for a separate
configuration file, but upstream does not have any incentive right now
in doing it, and I do not have the time/interest in working in a
possible large patch to add support for new config file to ntopng.

Thanks,
Ludovico