Configuration File Format

Configuration files are Enscribe EDIT files and uses "INI" file format.

Options

Options consist of name, value pairs delimited by an equals sign (=). The value may be enclosed in quotes to preserve whitespace when necessary.

Sections

Parameters are grouped into named sections. A section header consists of the a section name enclosed in square brackets ( [ ] ). All parameters found after a section header and before the next section header or end of file are associated with that section header. Section headers may include a process name to indicate that the section applies to a specific process. In this case the section name consists of the process name and section name delimited by a colon (:).

Comments

A hash (#) character indicates the start of a comment, which continues to the end of the line. All text between the hash and end of line is ignored.

Blank Lines

Blank lines are ignored.

Example

# This section configures generic logging options
[log]
file=zzlog
level=info   # log at info level.
format=text