Odd comma

[Phillip Deneault]

*sigh*  You make an excellent point.

I still want to leave the comma in the ra.conf file since it is a 
convention I use everywhere else, but yes, I see what you are saying.

Thanks for the extra set of eyes,
Phil

Carter Bullard wrote:
> Hey Phillip,
> Yep, the comma should not be there.  Just wanted to make sure what
> the bug was.
> 
> Not related to the bug, but a curiosity. Because rastream() is writing
> to a file, its not writing to stdout, so there is no ASCII conversion, and
> so there are no fields to separate, and thus no need for a comma.
> 
> What is it that you expect the RA_FIELD_SPECIFIER to do for you here?
> 
> Thanks for the bug report, I'll fix it right now.
> 
> Carter
> 
> 
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Phillip Deneault wrote:
> 
>> Well, I could, but I'm using RA_FIELD_SPECIFIER in my rastream command 
>> cause I like comma-delimited things. :-)
>>
>> I guess the reason why I'm bringing it up was that rastream/rasplit 
>> didn't put that delimiter in the pathname before in argus-client-3.0.1 
>> but now in the beta.7 it is in there.  Is it staying the way it is now 
>> or will it be taken out again?  Or was it just an unexpected change 
>> when refactoring some code?
>>
>> In my opinion, the delimiter should not appear in the pathname since 
>> $srcid is really the sensor id, not $srcid+RA_FIELD_SPECIFIER and its 
>> very easy for a RA_FIELD_SPECIFIER to be used that has more important 
>> meaning to a shell. :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phil
>>
>> Carter Bullard wrote:
>>> Hey Phillip,
>>> I suspect that you have a RA_FIELD_SPECIFIER defined in your ~/.rarc 
>>> file?
>>> You should be able to override it with a "-c ' ' " on the command line.
>>> Carter
>>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Phillip Deneault wrote:
>>>> My apologies,
>>>>
>>>> rastream -S <server> -f /path/to/script -B 15 -M time 1m -w 
>>>> /data/argus/temporal/\$srcid/argus.%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M
>>>>
>>>> Dumps out data paths that look like this:
>>>>
>>>> /data/argus/temporal/192.168.23.27,/argus.2009.06.15.00.00
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Phil
>>>>
>>>> Carter Bullard wrote:
>>>>> Hey Phillip,
>>>>> News to me.  Could you send the exact synatx and I'll try to 
>>>>> replicate the problem here.
>>>>> Carter
>>>>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Phillip Deneault wrote:
>>>>>> Has anyone else had an issue with the beta.7 rasplit and rastream 
>>>>>> clients appending a comma after the ip address when using the 
>>>>>> $srcid macro in the paths?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or did I do something wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Phil
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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