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11-08-2011

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Best practice - determining what region you are on

Hello all,

I have a question about what you think the best practice is to determine what region you are running on when you have a system setup with a DEV/TEST, QA, and PROD regions running the same scripts in all.

So, when you run in DEV, you have a different directory structure, and you don't want to email the entire group when you are testing something and you abend.

We use the hostname to determine what box we are running on, then a case statement that has the box names hardcoded.

Right there is the problem. Our hardware group just moved us from one box to another, and even though they kept the old DNS available and pointing to the new box, the hostname found the new box name - and nothing worked.

Yes, we missed the fact that the hostname was hardcoded in the common environment script, but this is where my question comes in.

What do you do to prevent having to make ANY changes to your scripts when the hostname changes due to a box move, but you can still tell you are running in DEV or QA or PROD?

The only thing that comes immediately to mind is a file located on each box, uniquely named for that box - something as simple as prod.dat, qa.dat, dev.dat. If one of those files exist, a case tells you what region you are in. However - that also has risk. Some newbie deletes it. If it's hidden - what if the SA doesn't copy it to the new box?

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XEmptyRegion(3) 						  XLIB FUNCTIONS						   XEmptyRegion(3)

NAME

       XEmptyRegion, XEqualRegion, XPointInRegion, XRectInRegion - determine if regions are empty or equal

SYNTAX

       Bool XEmptyRegion(Region r);

       Bool XEqualRegion(Region r1, Region r2);

       Bool XPointInRegion(Region r, int x, int y);

       int XRectInRegion(Region r, int x, int y, unsigned int width, unsigned int height);

ARGUMENTS

       r	 Specifies the region.

       r1
       r2	 Specify the two regions.

       width
       height	 Specify the width and height, which define the rectangle.

       x
       y	 Specify the x and y coordinates, which define the point or the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the rectangle.

DESCRIPTION

       The XEmptyRegion function returns True if the region is empty.

       The XEqualRegion function returns True if the two regions have the same offset, size, and shape.

       The XPointInRegion function returns True if the point (x, y) is contained in the region r.

       The XRectInRegion function returns RectangleIn if the rectangle is entirely in the specified region, RectangleOut if the rectangle is
       entirely out of the specified region, and RectanglePart if the rectangle is partially in the specified region.

SEE ALSO

       XCreateRegion(3), XIntersectRegion(3)
       Xlib - C Language X Interface

X Version 11							   libX11 1.5.0 						   XEmptyRegion(3)

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