From 90bbf169b247194946fdbc13c1de700c495372cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20Bartelme=C3=9F?= <mba@fourplusone.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:03:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow startup without settings file

---
 src/node/utils/Settings.js | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/node/utils/Settings.js b/src/node/utils/Settings.js
index cb6a6403..8f13b0c6 100644
--- a/src/node/utils/Settings.js
+++ b/src/node/utils/Settings.js
@@ -106,9 +106,15 @@ if (settingsFilename.charAt(0) != '/') {
     settingsFilename = path.normalize(path.join(root, settingsFilename));
 }
 
-//read the settings sync
-var settingsStr = fs.readFileSync(settingsFilename).toString();
-
+var settingsStr
+try{
+  //read the settings sync
+  settingsStr = fs.readFileSync(settingsFilename).toString();
+} catch(e){
+  console.warn('No settings file found. Using defaults.');
+  settingsStr = '{}';
+}
+  
 //remove all comments
 settingsStr = settingsStr.replace(/\*([^*]|[\r\n]|(\*+([^*/]|[\r\n])))*\*+/gm,"").replace(/#.*/g,"").replace(/\/\/.*/g,"");