--On Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:47 PM -0400 Lorin Hochstein <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Philip,

Some curious behavior about Hackystat command-line installer.(Note that I've 
had to
modify your suggested script to integrated it into our data collection setup).

Here's an example. I have hackyInstaller.jar in
~collect/umdinst/setup/hackyInstaller.jar. If I try to use that one, I get a 
complaint
about versions (although everything works fine otherwise). However, if I have 
the
jarfile in my home directory, no complaint. To wit:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ java -jar ~collect/umdinst/setup/hackyInstaller.jar 
-SetPath
.EMACS_FILE_DIR $HOME
Rhino classes (js.jar) not found - Javascript disabled
WARNING: HackyInstaller is out of date.  New version 6.7.909 available.
The .EMACS_FILE_DIR path has been saved.
Success

(Complains about installer being out of date. Copying the file to home 
directory and
trying again)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cp ~collect/umdinst/setup/hackyInstaller.jar .

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ java -jar ~collect/umdinst/setup/hackyInstaller.jar 
-SetPath
.EMACS_FILE_DIR $HOME
Rhino classes (js.jar) not found - Javascript disabled
The .EMACS_FILE_DIR path has been saved.
Success

(no version complaint this time. Confirm they are the same file)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ diff hackyInstaller.jar 
~collect/umdinst/setup/hackyInstaller.jar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

(Files are identical. Remove the home directory file and reproduce the problem)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rm hackyInstaller.jar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ java -jar ~collect/umdinst/setup/hackyInstaller.jar 
-SetPath
.EMACS_FILE_DIR $HOME
Rhino classes (js.jar) not found - Javascript disabled
WARNING: HackyInstaller is out of date.  New version 6.7.909 available.
The .EMACS_FILE_DIR path has been saved.
Success



Do you know why this would be happening?

Hmm. Not offhand. One question: does ~lorin/.hackystat/sensor.properties reference a hackystat host that is different from the hackystat host referenced by ~/collect/.hackystat/sensor.properties? That might help diagnose the bug, although there's no reason why the presence of hackyInstaller.jar in one's current directory should influence the execution of a jar file located elsewhere...

I've posted this as:

<http://hackydev.ics.hawaii.edu:8080/browse/HACK-342>

Julie and Austen will get on it right away. :-)

Also, is there a way for me to query hackyInstaller to check the version?

The 6.8 daily builds will now print out the hackyInstaller version number when you do 'java -jar hackyInstaller.jar -Help

There is also a more detailed '-Status' command in the works for the next 
stable release.

(Is there a point of contact other than you I should use for Hackystat installer
issues?)

Thanks,
Lorin

Feel free to email the two HackyInstaller Wizards, Julie Sakuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Austen Ito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who are the ones who will actually be fixing the bugs. However, please continue to keep me in the emails so I can keep up with what's going on and post Jira issues as necessary.

Cheers,
Philip

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