[m-rev.] for review: modified gator's configuration files to have more sensible defaults

[Samrith UONG]

On 2/13/06, Julien Fischer <juliensf at cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Samrith UONG wrote:
>
> > For review by Ralph.
> >
> > Estimated hours taken: 0.2
> >
> > Changed the configuration files so that the program will work without
> > any additional configuration.
> >
> > mercury/extras/gator/evaluate.conf:
> >         Instead of using the benchmark programs in the benchmarks
> > directory (which
> >         the user might not have access to), use mercury/samples/hello.m as the
> >         benchmark program.
> >
> > mercury/extras/gator/evolve.conf:
> >         Since the evaluate.conf file was changed so that there is only
> > one benchmark
> >         program, we need to change the length of the first term.
> >
> > mercury/extras/gator/gator.conf:
> >         In the previous revision, the hosts sophie, boadicea,
> > surprise, lively and
> >         leopard were used.  Rather than use these hosts, which are
> > only available to
> >         Mercury developers, use `hostname` instead.
> >
>
> The indentation in this log message has gone funny.
>

OK I'll do it properly when I commit.

>
> > -host4=lively
> > -workspace4=/home/mercury/samrith/gator
> > -benchmarks4=/home/lively/samrith/benchmarks
> > -path4=/home/lively/public/mercury-latest/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin
> > -
> > -host5=leopard
> > -workspace5=/home/mercury/samrith/gator
> > -benchmarks5=/home/leopard/samrith/benchmarks
> > -path5=/home/leopard/public/mercury-latest/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin
> > +host1=`hostname`
>
> You'll want `hostname -s` here because on BSD (and BSD based systems
> like Mac OS X) hostname will print out a fully domain qualified name.
>

But on Solaris "hostname -s" will attempt to set the hostname to "-s"
:).  And this will fail if you aren't root.  Is it really a problem
having a FQDN?  This variable just gets passed to ssh(1).

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