[hobbit] bbcmd on clients does not set MACHINE and MACHINEDOTS

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Sun Jul 9 17:14:49 CEST 2006


On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:18:00PM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:
> Dominique Frise a écrit :
> >Hi,
> >
> >We noticed a problem when using bbcmd on clients for testing extension 
> >scripts: the variables exported in runclient.sh are not set.
> >
> >At least MACHINE and MACHINEDOTS should be set for beeing able to test 
> >any client-side extension script (Big Brother style or Hobbit style).
> 
> I totally agree with Dominique : I'm currently "upgrading" Big Brother 
> clients to Hobbit 4.1.2p1 clients, and some of my external scripts are 
> run from other scripts (post-backup ones, for example).
> 
> Would it be possible to modify bbcmd to export MACHINE, MACHINEDOTS, 
> BBOSTYPE and HOBBITCLIENTHOME, so we can run external scripts outside of 
> Hobbit ?

Done now. HOBBITCLIENTHOME is decided based on the location of the 
environment file that is loaded, which should give the right result
in any normal setup.


Regards,
Henrik




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