[Bug 604400] [NEW] Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf

[Etienne Goyer]

Public bug reported:

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".

** Affects: eucalyptus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604400
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