On 4/20/06, Lombard, David N <david.n.lombard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Steve Nelson on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:36 PM > > Hi All, > > > > On all of my clusters, I have clustat run in the user's profile, so > > the status of the cluster is visible whenever someone logs in. > > > > Someone has suggested to me that clustat could hang, and prevent user > > access. Is this a valid point? Under what (if any) circumstances > > would clustat hang? > > As another has pointed out, anything that can hang the login, will, at > the most inopportune times. > > Why not have a cron job periodically report the status into some file > and then just cat the file results during login? Yes, and indeed I discovered that I can export the info as xml too, which could be handy :) > If the user then > really wants an up-to-the-moment report, they can buy into running > clustat. Definitely. Thanks for all the advice :) S. -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
