2023-06-25 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. Everything that uses configuration files should report where they’re located Total comment counts : 103 Summary As a system administrator, the author strongly believes that if a program uses a configuration file, it should have an obvious way to find out its location. The author deals with many programs that have their own normal locations for configuration files. Sometimes this is system-wide, sometimes it’s per-user, and some have both. Ideally, the program should report what (and where) their configuration files are through standard help output or explicitly mention the special way to find out in the program’s standard help output....