On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:13:58PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me how the *.var files are processed. Are the > variables appended to each other or are they overwritten?
overwritten if not specified otherwise. > I now have a machine antserv02 that has (amongst others) the following > classes defined: ANTSERV02 and OPENAFSCLIENT > > In ANTSERV02.var I have > moduleslist="tulip" > > and in OPENAFSCLIENT.var I have > moduleslist="openafs" Since the files will be processed in alphabetical order, you will end up with moduleslist="openafs" You may modify this by writing moduleslist="$moduleslist openafs" which will append. (ba)sh semantics... > When the machine is installed the tulip module is not loaded. Of course, not. > It seems to me that the the moduleslist variabele is overwritten and > not expanded. Or am I doing something wrong? Depends... FAI is doing what you told it to do... Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298}