RE: Splaytime and hostname hashing

2010-02-25 Thread Justin Lloyd
Interesting, I'll poke through this. Thanks! Justin -Original Message- From: C R Ritson [mailto:c.r.rit...@newcastle.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:24 AM To: Justin Lloyd; Help-cfengine Subject: RE: Splaytime and hostname hashing A colleague, now retired, wrot

RE: Splaytime and hostname hashing

2010-02-25 Thread C R Ritson
A colleague, now retired, wrote the attached piece of python - clearly you would need to customise this as it does things with our domain name to get the correct string to hash. I hope this helps. Chris Ritson (Computing Officer and School Safety Officer) Room 707, Claremont Tower,EMAIL

RE: Splaytime and hostname hashing

2010-02-25 Thread Justin Lloyd
Ok, I've partially scratched my own itch by adapting the files_hashes.c Hash() function and two associated C #defines from cf3.defs.h into a small Perl script. Given a list of hostnames on standard input, the script below will print out lines of the form "hashvalue = hostname1, hostname2, ..." for