custom rasmgr port in start/stop_rasdaman.sh

[Dimitar Misev]

rasmgr and rascontrol calls in start_rasdaman.sh and stop_rasdaman.sh should use a --port $PORT variable set at the beginning of the script (to 7001 by default). It's annoying and error-prone to manually search where the port needs to be changed in these scripts.

Perhaps an even better solution is for this parameter to be specified in rasmgr.conf

[Peter Baumann]

there as an idea of putting the port into rasmgr.conf - I like this approach because it concentrates information: rasserver ports are in rasmgr.conf already, too.

[Dimitar Misev]

Should it be part of the define dbh command, e.g. option -port 7001 or so?

# define symbolic name for database host
# the MYHOST name is just a symbolic one, does not have to correspond with
# any name outside rasdaman; however, MUST NOT BE EQUAL to any other name used
# in this file!
# parameters:
#       -connect c      server connect information (RDBMS login, database
#                       name, or similar - depends on the base DBMS used;
#                       eg, can be "/" for Oracle, "RASBASE" for PostgreSQL)
define dbh rasdaman_host -connect RASBASE -port 7001

[Peter Baumann]

in rasmgr/rasmgr_rascontrol_help.cc I find:

"define db 'dbname' -dbh 'dbhname'\r\n"
"       - define database 'dbname' on database host 'dbhname'\r\n"
"         ('dbname' is not a symbolic name, it is the real name of the rasdaman database
)\r\n"
"define host 'hostname' -net 'netaddress' [-port 'portnumber']\r\n"
"       - define server host with symbolic name 'hostname', located at address 'netaddress:portnumber'\r\n"
"         ('portnumber' defaults to 7001)\r\n"

…so done?

[Dimitar Misev]

Perfect

But we are not done, we should put -port 7001 by default in rasmgr.conf and remove the specific port used in start_rasdaman.sh. This would mean upgrading rasmgr.conf somehow during install, which is hard and dangerous. We can either decide it's wontfix or try to devise some hazardous script for upgrading rasmgr.conf

[Peter Baumann]

not sure it's worth the effort. We might just setup a how-to for portchanging which points to the places to be changed. It's just 2 I understand: start_rasdaman.sh and rasmgr.conf.

[Dimitar Misev]

Actually I think we can safely remove it from start/stop_rasdaman.sh - they have 7001 as default anyway. Then if someone wants a different port, they can adapt rasmgr.conf

[Peter Baumann]

sounds good, and as this script should not be updated by users anyway it is safer to replace/modify it during update.