Keep in mind that if your machine IP address ever changes then any jobs queued
or running at shutdown won't get picked up on restarting.
Regards
Scott
On 6/08/2012, at 3:06 PM, Sam Hamilton wrote:
> Many thanks Jacques - off to do some testing!
>
> Cheers
> Sam
>
> On 4 Aug 2012, at 00:11, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> I'm not sure to get it but you could use the IP address of each machine,
>> look into startofbiz.sh:
>> IPADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print
>> $1}'`
>>
>> From that you could parse (ie remove the dot) and create an unique Id for
>> each machine
>>
>> Also Googled for "sh properties file access", found this as 2nd entry in the
>> SERP
>> http://shrubbery.mynetgear.net/c/display/W/Reading+Java-style+Properties+Files+with+Shell
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>
>> Sam Hamilton wrote:
>>> Hey everyone!
>>>
>>> This is kinda a weird question but does anyone know a way to auto insert
>>> the machines hostname in the unique.instanceId variable
>>> in general.properties?
>>>
>>> I am asking as I am migrating over to AWS and trying to automate the build
>>> for a whole clustered stack so that if one of the
>>> instances dies the system knows and rebuilds.
>>>
>>> Something like unique.instanceId=$HOSTNAME but I don't know where to find
>>> the supported list of variables that a properties file
>>> can have?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Sam
>
