contain new-line separated variable
assignments. Empty lines and lines
starting with ; or # will be ignored,
- which may be used for
- commenting.</para></listitem>
+ which may be used for commenting. The
+ argument passed should be an absolute
+ file name, optionally prefixed with
+ "-", which indicates that if the file
+ does not exist it won't be read and no
+ error or warning message is
+ logged.</para></listitem>
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