Customising Your Settings
Many of the Premvet settings are handled by the file params.txt.
In addition to the master file, there are other optional 'params.txt' type files that can be used, all these files have the same format. The system will check them in the following order:
/etc/default/params.txt |
params.txt |
params.local |
miscdir/params.SURGERY |
miscdir/params.USER-ID |
ALL files will be processed, with earlier entries being ower-ridden.
That is, an entry in params.txt will be over-ridden by
one in params.local. You should make sure entries appear in
the appropriate files.
With the last two params.USER-ID and
params.SURGERY, these files should live in the folder
'miscdir', and the 'USER-ID' will be replaced with the user id of the
user IN LOWERCASE. For example, if the user id is set to TWM then the
file will be miscdir/params.twm. SURGERY will be replaced
by the Branch number the user is logged in at. If they were logged in to
surgery 2 then the file will be: miscdir/params.2.
So for user or branch specific settings add them to
params.USER-ID/SURGERY, general settings to
params.txt and site specific ones to
params.local.
params.local will NOT cross update, it will not be copied to play areas and the likes. This is aimed at site specific settings.