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

[Dominique Frise]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> 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.
> 

Much better solution I agree ;-)

Thanks.

Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne