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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/puppet/configuration.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/puppet/configuration.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/configuration.rb b/lib/puppet/configuration.rb index f711ce3ec..86d7dbfdc 100644 --- a/lib/puppet/configuration.rb +++ b/lib/puppet/configuration.rb @@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ module Puppet end self.setdefaults(:puppet, - :confdir => [conf, "The main Puppet configuration directory."], - :vardir => [var, "Where Puppet stores dynamic and growing data."], + :confdir => [conf, "The main Puppet configuration directory. The default for this parameter is calculated based on the user. If the process + is runnig as root or the user that ``puppetmasterd`` is supposed to run as, it defaults to a system directory, but if it's running as any other user, + it defaults to being in ``~``."], + :vardir => [var, "Where Puppet stores dynamic and growing data. The default for this parameter is calculated specially, like `confdir`_."], :name => [name, "The name of the service, if we are running as one. The default is essentially $0 without the path or ``.rb``."] ) |