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Re: [arch] host name independence

From: Kedar Mhaswade <Kedar.Mhaswade_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:44:52 -0700

Yes.

Lloyd Chambers wrote:
> Byron,
>
> Is this true even when moving from a Windows machine to unix and vice
> versa? (Eg forward slash vs backslash) Even for cases where a user
> enters a path? (are there such cases?)
>
> Lloyd
>
>
>
> On Jul 25, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
>
>> Byron Nevins wrote:
>>> backup-restore is pretty dumb. It knows just enough to set file
>>> permissions properly (Java zip files lose all file properties)
>>> The (local) hostname is set to a System Property by default so that
>>> takes care of itself.
>>> All the paths that WE put in domain.xml are relative to the instance
>>> root -- which is determined at runtime.
>>> Yes you should be able to copy a domain from one machine to another.
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> Let's make sure that that remains true...
>>
>