Hey Dave, > Yes, I can confirm that, thanks; I was expecting it to involve some > serious debugging!
Unfortunately for the hostlist library maintainer he's got another corner case to deal with. He was joking w/ me yesterday, "What are you FreeIPMI people doing. You keep on finding every corner case." :-) > Ironically, I realize it's no longer a problem where I found it > originally since I changed the script to use nodeattr to select the > nodes, which DTRT. In case it's a useful example, and an indication of > why --legacy-output is convenient, see the script at > <URL:http://*www.*nw-grid.ac.uk/LivScripts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=freeipmi-gmetric-temp>. Glad the option was useful. This is pretty much why I added it :-) Al On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 15:57 +0000, Dave Love wrote: > Al Chu <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hey Dave, > > > >> > # ipmi-sensors -E -h ipmi008 > >> > hostlist_ranged_string: truncation > > > > This ended up just being a dumb corner case if the -E option eliminated > > every node specified on the command line. > > That seemed likely. > > > The maintainer of the hostlist library thinks there may be a bug in his > > code. If you specify: > > > > ipmi[007-008] > > > > instead of > > > > ipmi00[7-8] > > > > it will work for the time being. The issue is that when you specify > > "ipmi00[7-8]" the internal library recognizes "ipmi00" as the prefix of > > the range of nodes. > > Yes, I can confirm that, thanks; I was expecting it to involve some > serious debugging! > > Ironically, I realize it's no longer a problem where I found it > originally since I changed the script to use nodeattr to select the > nodes, which DTRT. In case it's a useful example, and an indication of > why --legacy-output is convenient, see the script at > <URL:http://*www.*nw-grid.ac.uk/LivScripts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=freeipmi-gmetric-temp>. > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
