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Reword config file search logic in the docs 

This is a follow up to Change-Id: 651202

Change-Id: Id41a302d4ae233a20578686433fd8f3da56e69b9
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Ilya Etingof 2019-05-09 14:32:02 +02:00
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@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ does all the heavy-lifting (speaks IPMI, calls libvirt) while ``vbmc``
client is merely a command-line tool sending commands to the server and
rendering responses to the user.
Both tools can optionally consume optional configuration file, which
defaults to ``$HOME/.vbmc/virtualbmc.conf``,
``/etc/virtualbmc/virtualbmc.conf``, but can be overridden with the
``VIRTUALBMC_CONFIG`` environment variable.
Both tools can make use of an optional configuration file, which is
looked for in the following locations (in this order):
* ``VIRTUALBMC_CONFIG`` environment variable pointing to a file
* ``$HOME/.vbmc/virtualbmc.conf`` file
* ``/etc/virtualbmc/virtualbmc.conf`` file
If no configuration file has been found, the internal defaults apply.
You should set up your systemd to launch the ``vbmcd`` server on system
start up or you can just run ``vbmcd`` from command line if you do not need