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/


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