Adding a value to the directadmin.conf

The directadmin.conf lives here:

/usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf

Lets use an example where we want to set        
to a value of .

The end goal would be to see this in the directadmin.conf:

name=value

1. To add a value to this file, there are a few ways to do to it.
   • Either edit the file manually to either edit a variable that's already set.
   • Or, if you know the value does not exist at all, you can use the echo command:

     echo "name=value" >> /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf

     to add the value to the bottom.  Only use this if you know the value is not currently set.
   • The last method would be if the value currently exists, where you could use a perl regex (Assuming your name/value have basic characters, else this might not work):

     perl -pi -e 's/^name=.*$/name=value/' /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf

2. Once the variable is set, the next step is to ensure it's set.
   For that, type:

   cd /usr/local/directadmin
   ./directadmin c | grep ^name=

   to ensure you see the value specified.
   
   If you do not see the value set, then make sure the end of the directadmin.conf has a trailing newline character.
   What this means is that there should be a blank line at the bottom of the file, because when reading a config file, DA defines a "line" has ending with a newline character (the 'enter' key).
3. Last step is to restart DA to load in your setting:

   cd /usr/local/directadmin
   echo "action=directadmin&value=restart" >> data/task.queue; ./dataskq d2000