[LON-CAPA-users] LON-CAPA changing numbers?

[Ray Batchelor]

I have just noticed something that might be related to this.
A user who is presently at msu, but currently has a student role in my 
course in the domain sfu (boegel1@sfu), appears to be observing 
different permutations of problems than I observe for him here at sfu.

Is this, perhaps, because he has a parallel username in the domain msu 
which permits him somewhow to access his role in the domain sfu but 
with a different seed?

Very strange.

Cheers,
Ray



On October 8, 2002 08:23 am, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> > I'm trying to figure out the specific problem, as it may have been
> > republished at some point, but I'm also looking for the information
> > on the random seed creation. This will clue me in as to what has
> > changed.
>
> symb (which means mapfilename + resourcefilename + id number of the
>       resource on the map)
>
> Courseid
>
> Username
>
> user's domain name
>
>
> (and as gerd said perl 5.005 versus perl 5.6.1)
>
> And of course varying the number and order of the random calls can
> affect things.
>
> (I am uncertain about 5.6.0 and the variou 5.005_00? versions
> specifically, but I would guess the breakage occurred in the 5.005 ->
> 5.6 change)
>
> > What you're suggesting is that a different machine is giving a
> > different random number in certain cases. I remember this being an
> > issue with your installation up North of the old capa. Is there any
> > chance of this here?
>
> I have yet to see this if they are running the smae version of Perl.
>
> > (for example, if I have access servers that are three different RH
> > installations, might there be three different random numbers in
> > limited situations?
>
> Unfortunatley yes.
>
> > I seem to remember seeing a random number check-in - did this fix
> > this?)
>
> Yes.