bbcmd on clients does not set MACHINE and MACHINEDOTS

To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: bbcmd on clients does not set MACHINE and MACHINEDOTS
From: Dominique Frise <Dominique.Frise (at) unil.ch>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:12:10 +0200
Organization: University of Lausanne
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051003

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).


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne