Re: [Monotone-devel] Usher crashes

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 12:22 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I just compiled usher, and started it:
> > 
> > $ ./usher -m "mtn -kmy_key" -a 127.0.0.1:10000 usher.cfg 
> 
> It treats the -m argument as an executable name, not a command line. So
> it'll be looking for an execuable named "mtn -kmy_key", not looking for
> an execuable named "mtn" and giving the "-kmy_key" argument. Really I
> should probably replace this argument with a line in the config file,
> which could allow for this.

Ah. I see...

> I see it needs better documentation.
> 
> It finds a matching server by first looking for one with a correct
> 'host' line. If there isn't a matching host line, then it looks for a
> matching 'pattern' line.
> 
> The 'host' line is matched as a prefix of the hostname that the client
> is given to talk to, and the 'pattern' line is matched as a prefix of
> the include pattern. In each case, it takes the longest one that
> matches.
> 
> Note that the 'pattern' line is a string prefix of the include pattern,
> not a glob.
> 
> Also, you still have to provide the pattern argument that the serve
> command requires in the 'local' line. And since it sounds like this
> argument is going away soon, I'm not going to have it try to guess it.

Well, I can see lots of problems with what I was doing!

> This might be fixed now.

Yep. It doesn't crash anymore! :-)

Thanks a lot, Tim!

Right now I just need to find out why usher can't find the server, but
it will eventually work. :-)

J.