gee, standards, what a concept... thanks for the research and response, Wendy.
it begs the question, however, even if underscores are not legal, I wonder if OSCAR works with hyphens? Rich --- Wendy Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:00 AM -0500 7/19/02, Jeremy Enos wrote: > >Tested and verified. This appears to be a bug in > PBS 2.2, and 2.3. > >The strange thing is, I can add such a node while > the PBS server is > >already running, and it works fine. If I try to > then start the > >server again, it fails. This is probably where you > ran into the > >problem. > >I'll file a bug for this, although I know of no way > to fix it right now. > >Jason- > >Go ahead and create an errata issue for this- maybe > we can save > >someone some trouble. > >Symptom: PBS server won't start > >Possible Cause: Node name contains underscore ( _ > ) > > Underscore is not a legal character in a host name. > In RFC921, this > is how it describes "simple names": > > ------------------- > They must start with a letter, end with a letter or > digit and have > only letters or digits or hyphen as interior > characters. Case is not > significant. > ------------------- > > For more information, check out > <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc921.html>. > > Some man pages about /etc/hosts provide similar > information. For > example, in the Solaris (5.6) hosts(4) man page, it > says: > > ------------------- > A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is > a text string > up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), > digits (0-9), > minus sign (-), and period (.). Note that > periods are only > allowed when they serve to delimit components of > "domain style > names". (See RFC 921, "Domain Name System > Implementation > Schedule," for background). No blankor space > characters are permitted > as part of a name. No distinction is made between > upper and lower > case. The first character must be an alpha > character. The last > character must not be a minus sign or period. > ------------------- > > According to Section 3.2.2 Declaring Nodes in the > PBS Administration > Guide, "The node name is the network name of the > node (host > name),......". Therefore it's not a bug for PBS to > reject names > containing underscore. But it should check it more > consistently, > also rejecting a bad name as it's being entered via > qmgr. > > -- > Wendy Lin > ------------- > IT Research Computing Services > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu/~af5/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
