[1546] in Moira
Re: gen script changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon May 8 16:37:39 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 00:43:18 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 16:37:34 -0400
> Well, in the specific case you mention, it doesn't matter, because
> moira doesn't receieve any dcms that don't use null.sh as their script.
> I think the general case of multiple machines receiving dcms is rare
> enough that I'm inclined to not care.
OK, fair enough.
> Wait, we already had this argument. Everyone go back and read the
> thread that begins at moira[1353]. I like Dan's reasoning that anything
> that doesn't have a /var/athena at this point also doesn't have mortals
> logging into it, and putting the output someplace is better than not.
> /tmp is only being used if /var/athena doesn't exist, in all cases.
Oh, right, OK, that's fair.
> I like using /var/tmp for this sort of thing still; if I do decide to
> change it, I'd want to do it consistantly across all the gen scripts,
> anyway.
Well, I think this is worth doing, since we do have the race condition
here, and departmental NFS servers are more likely to allow user
logins than your average machien that takes a DCM. OTOH, fixing all
of the DCMs at once makes sense.
> See previous comment about preferring /var/tmp to /var/athena for
> now.
See mine about prefering /var/athena. :-)
Jonathon
