Re: ORE-ANTS

["Phil Wang" <pywang@nortelnetworks.com>]

"Brickman,Norman F." wrote:
> 
> Phil,
>         Your directions (README) with the ants code were very helpful.  I
> modified the part of the java to get the service to load properly,
> compiled it, and loaded it into the Accelar. My next step will be to
> modify the two configuration files to represent our node structure (once
> I understand how the ping generally will work), and to again reload the
> Accelar.  Also, we are currently reloading our second Solaris box to
> match the one I have been working on.  Then I'll get to trying the ping
> out.
That's good.

> 
>         One gotcha - the jar generation for the ants.jar failed at first.  One
> of the lines in the mf file had nothing following the ":" character.  My
> version of the JDK failed until I made sure that there was one space
> following the : character, like ": ".  I don't know if my transfer to
> the Sun generated the problem, or if it is the version of JDK that I was
> using (1.2.1)
I do not know either. The Manifest file "Ants.mf" was broken, you have
to re-install it. 

However, if you compiled the ANTS package on a Solaris host, you do not
need to recompile it. Rather, copy the package to the other host.

Phil