On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> > It's roughly equivalent, either way
>
> Well, I prefer to do things with pipes rather than writting temporary
> files that will only be read immediately afterwards and only once and
> then have to be deleted. With files, you always have to pay attention to
> how and where you create them; with pipes, the OS takes care of
> everything. :-)
Actually, the intent was that you would have *one* hostmap file for the
entire LAM installation (users can override it if they want). Just list
all relevant IP names/addresses in the central lam-hostmap.txt file, and
LAM will always use that.
There's no need for a per-batch-job hostmap.
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