Women in Technology

Article:		Distributed Tiger: Xgrid Comes of Age
Subject:		Broken example
Date:		2005-08-27 11:11:44
From:		jfconway
Response to: Broken example
First - thanks for the Xgrid walk-through. It does perhaps need some amendments, however, and even amendments to the amendments! I couldn't get the example to work until I added the -password option, so the working command becomes: xgrid -hostname localhost -password <whatever> -grid list I feel that I am making progress and I thank you again for the article that got me started.

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• Broken example
  2005-08-27 11:30:15  drewmccormack [View]
  
  
  Just to elaborate on this: the reason the article doesn't include the -hostname and -password options is that when I was writing the article, I unwittingly set a couple of environment variables, and forgot to unset them. The environment variables are:
  XGRID_CONTROLLER_PASSWORD and XGRID_CONTROLLER_HOSTNAME. If you set these, you do not need to keep using hte -hostname and -password options.
  To set them, type the following commands on the command line, or add them to your shell configuration file:
  
  
export XGRID_CONTROLLER_PASSWORD=your_password
export XGRID_CONTROLLER_HOSTNAME=your_hostname

  
  Sorry for the inconvenience. I should have checked my environment more carefully.
  
  Drew McCormack