On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:50:30AM +0200 or thereabouts, Jeff Templon wrote:
> Haven't had time to read later versions but I had the same misgiving in
> an earlier version and made the same comment. I will try to make this
> comment at the GDB today if it doesn't make it into the doc in time.
>
> The SITE determines the OS unless special arrangements are made with the
> site. These special arrangements are indeed *special* meaning the
> default OS for the WNs at the site is what you should expect to be getting.
>
> It's the same old principle: let's try and get the maximum extra benefit
> for the VOs and at the same time create as little extra work for the
> sites as possible. That's what I think this is supposed to be about.
I have something along those lines now, choose the OS you want but choosing
one that EGEE/EDG/LCG middleware supports is probably good.
As any response can be rejected by any site.
Steve
>
> J "at least I hope so" T
>
> Åke Sandgren wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 20:13 +0100, Steve Traylen wrote:
> >
> >>Dear Site administrators and ROC Managers.
> >>
> >>>>Following on the LCG operations meeting at Culham
> >>>
> >>Thanks for the feedback so far. Version 0.4 and 0.5 of the
> >>document, LCG-VOBox-Operations-Guide. is at
> >>
> >>https://edms.cern.ch/document/655277
> >>
> >>version 0.4 has updates in green.
> >>version 0.5 is identical but with out the rainbow effect.
> >
> >
> >Sorry for not reading this sooner...
> >
> >I totally disagree on section 5 Operating system.
> >
> >The site should decide what OS they want to run and the VO should be
> >made to adapt to this. The site may for instance have security rules in
> >place that says they can't run just any OS that the VO wants (or anyone
> >of the EGEE/LCG/EDG supported ones) or they might even be running a
> >"non-supported" hardware like RS6K machines with AIX...
> >
> >The currently stated situation is simply wrong from a sysadmin
> >perspective.
> >
> >PS.
> >There is also a spelling error in the document log for 0.4
> >"Choose and OS..."
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