[Paraview] default_servers.pvsc question

[Burlen Loring]

Hi Utkarsh,

I think environment variables are kind of a band aid around a larger 
issue. In addition to leveraging the user's local environment, there's 
also no way to get information from the server side environment. for 
example list of account numbers a user can charge jobs to, or a list of 
active queues. One thing I have been thinking about is  rather than just 
reading pvsc from an xml file, paraview could call a script to get the 
pvsc xml. This script could query the user's local/remote environment 
and generate the xml. A long time ago we had talked about a python based 
solution. What do you think?

Burlen

On 4/12/2015 11:31 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Rick,
>
> Alas no, this isn't currently supported. But should be fairly
> straightforward to add. I've reported a bug:
> http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15421
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY
> ARL (US) <richard.c.angelini.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>> Question about the default_servers.pvsc file…..
>>
>> I have this in my host profile:
>>
>>    <Server name=“My System" resource="csrc://127.0.0.1">
>>      <CommandStartup>
>>        <Options>
>> <Option name="SSHLOC" label="Local SSH Command" save="true">
>>   <File default="/usr/local/bin/ssh"/>
>> </Option>
>>
>> So, when the GUI pops up, the user has an opportunity to change the path to
>> ssh.   But, rather than hard-coding the default value, or presenting blank
>> field and have the user put in the correct path, is it possible to query the
>> user’s environment and find `which ssh` and substitute in that value??
>>
>>
>>
>>
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