Because the Peep configuration file can get rather large in size, it is desirable to break it up into sections. The import directive allows this to happen. Simply, chunks of the conifguration file can be put into a separate file and then an import statement tells the servers and clients to continue parsing using that file and then continue through the rest of peep.conf when done.
The example client configuration for logparser in the previous section is best put into it's own file for clarity. If that file is called peep.logtab, we can import it with the following import statement in peep.conf:
import peep.logtab
or
import /home/mgilfix/peep/peep-0.5.x/conf/peep.logtab
Imports are done relative to the paths of the parsed configuration files, so a full path is usually not needed.