hey eric, the one thing i do not agree that it is the element of least
surprise. i would argue that the default behavior for *nix appplications is
that they find out what their home directory is and operate relative to
that. something like:
script_dir=$(dirname $(readlink -f ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}))
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Koert Kuipers ko...@tresata.com wrote:
hey eric, the one thing i do not agree that it is the element of least
surprise. i would argue that the default behavior for *nix appplications is
that they find out what their home directory is and operate relative to
i have an existing cassandra instance on my machine, it came with brisk and
lives in /usr/share/brisk/cassandra. it also created /usr/share/cassandra/
cassandra.in.sh
now i wanted to run another instance of cassandra (i needed a 0.7 version
for compatibility reasons), so i downloaded it from
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Koert Kuipers ko...@tresata.com wrote:
my problem is that the scripts for my cassandra 0.7 instance don't work
properly. the problem lies in the code snippets below. when i run the
scripts they source /usr/share/cassandra/cassandra.in.sh, which has the
wrong
