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

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Samrith UONG wrote:

> 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).
>

It should be fine.

Julien.
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