Thanks Risto!! Both solutions work like a champ.
Tejas
> Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 09:56:33 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] tilde in write action
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
> --- Tejas Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've a couple of questions:
> >
> > 1) I'm trying to define a write action and would
> > like to specify a ~ (tilde) like
> >
> > action= write ~user/some.log %s
> >
> > but SEC (perl) is not liking it. I tried using
> > glob() around it like
> >
> > action= write glob(~user/some.log) %s
> >
> >
> > but still no good. I don't want to specify the full
> > path to the user's home dir (which works) since it
> > changes based on what box SEC is run on. I'm
> > wondering how people have overcome this issue.
>
> you can use an action definition like:
>
> action=eval %dir (glob("~")); write %dir/some.log %s
>
> or better yet, start SEC with the -intevents option,
> and have a rule to set this variable just once at SEC
> startup/restart:
>
> type=single
> ptype=regexp
> pattern=(SEC_STARTUP|SEC_RESTART)
> context=SEC_INTERNAL_EVENT
> desc=Set user home dir variable
> action=eval %dir (glob("~"))
>
> >
> > 2) The box I'm on has multiple environments and
> > would like to have a generic rules file which I can
> > use for all environments. Is there a way to pass a
> > variable on cmd line to SEC (or any other way)? I
> > would like to pass in the environment name like
> > foo=test1 or test2 to sec and would like to use that
> > value in the rules file to determine which
> > environment I'm working in.
> >
> > Thank you for any pointers you can provide.
>
> If you are starting SEC from sh or bash, you can pass
> a shell variable to SEC with 'env' or 'export' shell
> commands. For retrieving these variables in SEC rule
> files, I would recommend to use the above rule. All
> environment variables are stored in the perl %ENV hash
> and you should have no difficulties with retrieving
> them (for example 'eval %path ($ENV{PATH})' sets %path
> to the value of the $PATH variable).
>
> hth,
> risto
>
> >
> > Tejas
> >
> > >
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