Re: [Tiger-user] Feedback: loading TIGER 2.2.4p1 on HP-UX 11.11 (long)

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

Bob Hall wrote:

> First I wanted to thank the author of the TIGER package for making
> it available. The output has been valuable to me and I'm sure that
> I can make good use of this product.
Nice to hear that.

> I just finished modifying and packaging up TIGER 2.2.4p1 so that
> it will run properly on our HP-UX 11.11 systems, and I thought it
> might be beneficial(?) to relate my experiences. 
Of course, one of the things that Tiger needs is more stress-testing on 
some platforms.As a matter of fact, many of the changes currently in the 
CVS (but not released as a tarball, will be the tiger-3.0.1) include a 
lot of fixes after testing 3.0 in Solaris.

> My philosophy in
> doing so is to package the product in such a way that it produces
> a minimum of messages when run on a 'clean' system. I.e. I set up
> a system that has our baseline configuration, and I wanted it to
> produce a minimum of notes, warnings, and errors. As a result,
> I'm sure that some may disagree with some of the shortcut methods
> I used. But the goal was to produce output for a novice SysAdmin
> that would not cause concern about the base install. Eventually I
> want to modify the baseline install so that many of these measures
> are not needed.
I will take a look at all the changes carefully to include them in the 
latest codebase. I can't promise that all will be accepted but (after a 
quick look) I can grant you that most will be there. In any, case, an 
appropiate patch (diff -uR from the original sources against your 
changes) sent as an attachment would be also very much appreciated.

Regarding messages on a 'clean' system, Tiger will not probably in the 
short run be able to filter all of them for every operating system. Some 
issues might be flagged as false positives for some sysadmins (but 
considered by others, depends on your OS). One of the nifty things about 
the current codebase (IIRC 2.2.4p2 includes it, or at least the Debian 
packages) is the 'differential runs' functionality (this is done by 
'tigercron' [1]).

> Thanks.
Thanks to you, that's a most valuable input. I will include this 
information in the CVS for the next release. If you are brave enough to 
test also Tiger 3.0 on HP-UX I would appreciate it very much (I would 
recommend using the CVS sources currently, however, they have nice 
autoconfiguration features so you can run tiger on its own directory and 
not need to install it in the system).

Best regards

Javi

[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/tiger/tiger/tigercron