On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Mario Kadastik <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install on a pure CentOS 5.5 the basic gLite UI. It's meant to be a box on the inside used for controlling FTS transfers. The box will never be exposed to the outside world so OBVIOUSLY it doesn't have a FQDN. After doing:
>
> wget http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/repos/3.2/glite-UI.repo
> wget http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/repos/3.2/dag.repo
> yum install lcg-CA
> yum groupinstall glite-UI
>
> I was left with a machine with UI installed, but no environment defined. So I copied our site-info.def that we use on WN's and tried:
>
> [root@cmsbox1 ~]# /opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s site-info.def -n glite-UI
> ERROR: The hostname -f command does not return with a fully qualified hostname,
> ERROR: however this is necessary for YAIM to run properly.
> ERROR: Please check your /etc/hosts file ! Exiting.
> ERROR: Host name unknown !
>
> What? A purely UI machine needs FQDN? Why?
Hi Mario,
What does $(hostname -f) actually return? Regardless of any network
configuration the first line of
your /etc/hosts file should be correct and have entry corresponding to
whatever you have HOSTNAME set
to /etc/sysconfig/network.
Steve.
>
> What's the way out of this? Any recommendations? How is one supposed to configure the UI on a standalone system?
>
> This is currently a showstopper in a major migration for important services to SL5 and gLite 3.2 as the old system has a fatal flaw that causes service downtimes while the new one apparently doesn't, but it depends on having a working gLite UI on the node...
>
> Mario Kadastik, PhD
> Researcher
>
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> "Physics is like sex, sure it may have practical reasons, but that's not why we do it"
> -- Richard P. Feynman
>
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Steve Traylen
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