Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf

[Etienne Goyer]

In Lucid, in the file /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf, the following comment can be found near the bottom:

# Administrative overrides and customizations may go below, in accordance
# with the manpage for eucalyptus.conf(5).

Reading the above, one can be lead to think that the declaration above should *not* be edited, and that adding declaration below is how you should "override" the above-declared values.

However, that is not quite correct. If, for example, you have the directive VNET_PRIVINTERFACE="eth0" declared above, and VNET_PRIVINTERFACE="eth1" declared below said comment, it's the first declaration that will be parsed and understood by Eucalyptus. As such, in the above example, the private interface would end up as being eth0, despite what the admin provided.

And yes, that's after running "sudo restart eucalyptus-cc CLEAN=1".

[Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands)]

For the record, that "bug" made me lost a couple of hours, and left me quite frustrated. I think it is serious enough to deserve a "fix" (ie, clarifying the behavior in the in-line comment).

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

@Etienne, Thanks for reporting this bug. A fix for this seems to be suitable for the SRU process, but personally i feel it should be bundled with another SRU as in itself; it's not serious enough to warrant an SRU.

Would you mind providing a suitable concise line that it should be replaced with? No need for a branch, or debdiff - unless you are really keen!

Thanks.

[Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands)]

Dave: I would love to, except I am not too sure what the expected behavior is. It would be best if someone who actually knows what's going on write the text in question.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands)]

Dave: again, sorry I can't produce the correct text, as I am not sure what the exact behavior is supposed to be. Feel free to mark as Won't Fix, if you think it does not deserve to be clarified.