On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 13:36 +0000, Alessandra Forti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I regret to say I could start only today. However I'll send my comments
> while doing.
>
> Requirements - Basics
>
> It should be specified that a host certificate for each node is required.
> This bring me to two questions:
Good point, I didn't think of that because that will be true in the
Grid.
>
> 1) Has anything been done to automate the host certificates requests? I
> requested 3 but.....
Please talk to the grid support centre they know about this sort of
think, Mike Jones did something, Steve T may have something.
>
> 2) Can dcache/srm work with http(s) rather than gridftp? I think I've
> already asked for this at the EGEE conference and Owen said yes it
> could be implemented.
Yes very easily in my software but in DCache I don't know how much
effort would be required, and it is certainly possible with the SRM API
in general.
> Installation - Getting the software
>
> Is there any difference between the tar file that can be downloaded from
> dcache website and the lcg rpm that can be downloaded from cern?
Yes one is a setup script from LCG in sh the other is D-Cache in Java
and C
> Why isn't dcache software yet in the yum repository at CERN?
Good question, I guess its a licencing issue.
> Is it possible to add URL for downloading the software rather than saying
> you need these rpms? Even better would be if a dcache rpm repository could
> be setup at RAL (or even at whatever site) for sites who want to start
> testing dcache.
D-Cache has no rpm repository, worse still they don't keep old versions
available.
> Is the mkgridmap.sh script that is used at ral and different from the
> edg-mkgridmap script? Maybe it's cleaner to use the lcg rpms also for
> this.
cat /root/install-scripts/mkgridmap.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Attempt to build a mkgridmap file.
yum -y -d 0 -t install edg-mkgridmap edg-mkgridmap-conf
cat <<EOF>/opt/edg/etc/edg-mkgridmap.conf
# Map VO members cms
group ldap://grid-vo.nikhef.nl/ou=lcg1,o=cms,dc=eu-datagrid,dc=org .cms
# Map VO members dteam
group ldap://lcg-vo.cern.ch/ou=lcg1,o=dteam,dc=lcg,dc=org .dteam
# A list of athorised users.
auth ldap://lcg-registrar.cern.ch/ou=users,o=registrar,dc=lcg,dc=org
gmf_local /opt/edg/etc/grid-mapfile-local
EOF
touch /opt/edg/etc/grid-mapfile-local
/opt/edg/sbin/edg-mkgridmap --output=/etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile
--safe
cat<<EOF>/etc/cron.d/edg-mkgridmap
50 */6 * * * root /opt/edg/sbin/edg-mkgridmap
--output=/etc/grid-security/grid-
mapfile --safe
EOF
> thanks
>
> End of part one.
> alessandra
Thanks for part1 looking forward to part2
Regards
Owen S
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