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+################################################################################
+# SABnzbd Newsgroup downloader daemon environment variables.
+#
+# This file contains non-OpenELEC evironment variables as well as OpenELEC
+# evironment variables that are not user defined.
+################################################################################
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# SABnzbd config file.
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+SABNZBD_CONFIG=/storage/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.conf
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# do not change anything below
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SABNZBD_ARGS="-f $SABNZBD_CONFIG"
+
+[ "$DEBUG" = yes ] && SABNZBD_ARGS="$SABNZBD_ARGS -l 2"
+