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<header>
<copyright>
<year>1997</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
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compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
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Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
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under the License.
</legalnotice>
<title>config</title>
<prepared></prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
</header>
<file>config</file>
<filesummary>Configuration file.</filesummary>
<description>
<p>A <em>configuration file</em> contains values for configuration
parameters for the applications in the system. The <c>erl</c>
command line argument <c>-config Name</c> tells the system to use
data in the system configuration file <c>Name.config</c>.</p>
<p>Configuration parameter values in the configuration file will
override the values in the application resource files (see
<c>app(4)</c>). The values in the configuration file can be
overridden by command line flags (see <c>erl(1)</c>).</p>
<p>The value of a configuration parameter is retrieved by calling
<c>application:get_env/1,2</c>.</p>
</description>
<section>
<title>FILE SYNTAX</title>
<p>The configuration file should be called <c>Name.config</c> where
<c>Name</c> is an arbitrary name.</p>
<p>The <c>.config</c> file contains one single Erlang term.
The file has the following syntax:</p>
<code type="none">
[{Application1, [{Par11, Val11}, ..]},
..
{ApplicationN, [{ParN1, ValN1}, ..]}].</code>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Application = atom()</c> is the name of the application.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Par = atom()</c> is the name of a configuration parameter.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Val = term()</c> is the value of a configuration
parameter.</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section>
<title>sys.config</title>
<p>When starting Erlang in embedded mode, it is assumed that
exactly one system configuration file is used, named
<c>sys.config</c>. This file should be located in
<c>$ROOT/releases/Vsn</c>, where <c>$ROOT</c> is the Erlang/OTP
root installation directory and <c>Vsn</c> is the release version.</p>
<p>Release handling relies on this assumption. When installing a
new release version, the new <c>sys.config</c> is read and used
to update the application configurations.</p>
<p>This means that specifying another, or additional, <c>.config</c>
files would lead to inconsistent update of application
configurations. Therefore, in Erlang 5.4/OTP R10B, the syntax of
<c>sys.config</c> was extended to allow pointing out other
<c>.config</c> files:</p>
<code type="none">
[{Application, [{Par, Val}]} | File].</code>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>File = string()</c> is the name of another <c>.config</c>
file. The extension <c>.config</c> may be omitted. It is
recommended to use absolute paths. A relative path is
relative the current working directory of the emulator.</p>
</item>
</list>
<p>When traversing the contents of <c>sys.config</c> and a filename
is encountered, its contents are read and merged with the result
so far. When an application configuration tuple
<c>{Application, Env}</c> is found, it is merged with the result
so far. Merging means that new parameters are added and existing
parameter values overwritten. Example:</p>
<code type="none">
sys.config:
[{myapp,[{par1,val1},{par2,val2}]},
"/home/user/myconfig"].
myconfig.config:
[{myapp,[{par2,val3},{par3,val4}]}].</code>
<p>This will yield the following environment for <c>myapp</c>:</p>
<code type="none">
[{par1,val1},{par2,val3},{par3,val4}]</code>
<p>The behaviour if a file specified in <c>sys.config</c> does not
exist or is erroneous in some other way, is backwards compatible.
Starting the runtime system will fail. Installing a new release
version will not fail, but an error message is given and
the erroneous file is ignored.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<p><c>app(4)</c>, <c>erl(1)</c>, <em>OTP Design Principles</em></p>
</section>
</fileref>
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