On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:04:10PM -0500, Craig Cook wrote:

hobbitlaunch.cfg contains this:

[hobbitclient] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD /home/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m

The actual client contains this file "runclient.sh"

They almost do the same thing...

"Almost" is the keyword here.

The default hobbitlaunch.cfg is created when Hobbit is compiled, and therefore some of the environment settings can be determined by the configure-script and put into the standard environment settings in the hobbitserver.cfg/hobbitclient.cfg files.

For a client-install, that is not the case. You typically build the client on one box, then copy the installation to all of the others running the same OS. So when starting the client, you need some run-time code to pick up e.g. the hostname of the box. runclient.sh does that.

Should the hobbitlaunch.cfg be changed to simply execute the "runclient.sh" and use whatever settings has been defined in that file?

You shouldn't put any settings in runclient.sh - add them to hobbitclient.cfg.

You could run the "runclient.sh" from hobbitlaunch.cfg, but that would just start a second instance of the hobbitlaunch program - one for the server part of Hobbit, and one for the client part. Seems a bit wasteful to me, so I did it the other way around.

Maybe add this to runclient.sh as well... "restart") if test -s $BASEDIR/logs/clientlaunch.pid then $0 stop sleep 10 $0 start else echo "clientlaunch does not appear to be running, starting it" $0 start fi ;;

Done.

Henrik