On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 06:25:43AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I multi-boot several configurations &/or releases of Debian. > I will run identical test scripts on each. > I want to store the results in a common logging file. > > I can set up an appropriate environment with a custom fstab containing: > > > > # create a common area > > LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents/tst_common vfat user,rw,umask=000 > > 0 0 > > # a dummy mount labeled to show which instance > > LABEL=dummy /home/richard/Documents/where/sda14 ext4 user,ro 0 0 > > > > > The first statement gives me a directory usable by all. > The second tells me where I am by using: > ls /home/richard/Documents/where > in any test script.
OK, a directory existing/ named per your location. Sounds reasonable. My default would normally be to create a config file "per host/ per test env" containing one or more env vars (which specify what I need to know about that host/ test-env, which I would "source" in bash scripts which do things depending on the test environment. But a shared/ mounted directory sounds fine too - that's also a place where you can store logs etc. Happy testing,
