[hobbit] suggestion on command pathes in hobbitclient-$BBOSTYPE.sh

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Sun May 21 13:57:37 CEST 2006


On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:00:43AM +0200, Dominique Frise wrote:
> 
> We compiled Hobbit on one reference client per OS and distributed the 
> client installation from there (we use sunos, darwin, linux -rhel2, rhel3, 
> rhel4, debian-)
> We then noticed than several clients did not find commands like "netstat" 
> or "ifconfig". Depending on OS release the inherited PATH for the user 
> running Hobbit can be different. We had to hack 
> hobbitclient-{sunos|linux|darwin}.sh
> to put the full pathes to these commands.
> 
> Now my suggestion:
> ------------------
> Would it be possible to add the full path for all commands in
> hobbitclient-$BBOSTYPE.sh?

I'd rather not do that, because it becomes very difficult to maintain.
Instead, I'd suggest that you put the necessary PATH setting in the
~client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg file.

I've added a PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/etc" to the default
client configuration.


Regards,
Henrik




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