net_test_hosts_ext(1)

NAME

net_test_hosts_ext - Do the net performance tests for a particular hosts set with the hosts extension hosts_ext

SYNOPSIS

net_test_hosts_ext

DESCRIPTION

The script net_test_hosts_ext does net performance tests for a particular hosts set with the hosts extension hosts_ext. Please note that the hosts extension is the lowercase of the root directory from the Web presentation of the results. That root directory is specified during the installation of this hosts set. This script initialises some specific parameters for this set of hosts which are used by the script net_test(1) which handles the real net performance tests.

This script also has some additional functionality such as:

Typically this script is periodically started by crontab(1). A crontab line which can be used to start this script can be found in the file:

RTPL_Root/crontab/crontab_input_hosts_ext

The directory RTPL_Root is the root directory of the installed RTPL package.

Note that this script is a csh(1) C shell script: it assumes that you have a (t)csh(1) login environment such that the environment could be defined well via your resource file $HOME/.cshrc when started from crontab(1). If you are using bash(1) your Bash shell environment can be set by execution (from crontab(1)) with the command line:

bash -c net_test_hosts_ext

The script log_hosts_ext(1) can be used to view the log files of this script during execution.

FILES

InstallRoot/config/config_hosts_ext.mk
The configuration file for make(1) make which is used to install the configuration of a particular hosts set with the hosts extension hosts_ext. The directory InstallRoot is the directory you used to install this package or a set of hosts for this package. It is the root directory from the distribution archive.

RTPL_Root/crontab/crontab_input_hosts_ext
This file contains an example input line for crontab(1) to run the periodic tests.

RTPL_Root/log/net_test_hosts_ext
The log file used by this command to log the output of net_test(1).

SEE ALSO

bash(1), crontab(1), csh(1), make(1), log_hosts_ext(1), net_test(1), net_test_mean(1), net_test_mean_hosts_ext(1), redir_file(1), tcsh(1), timeout_command(1), untar_dir(1)