hi Mark,
If you set the DPM_XROOTD variable to No rather than Yes in
site-info.def then it should simply stop YAIM from running the xrootd
configuration scripts. (Which means it also won't stomp on the manual
configuration you'll be doing.)
Sam
On 21 August 2012 09:58, Mark Slater <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> Great! At least I now know what to work from :) As regards YAIM: do I
> therefore remove references to xrootd from the site-info.def, configure the
> node first and THEN do xrootd manually? I assume subsequent re-runs of yaim
> won't stomp all over the xrootd stuff will it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 21/08/12 09:27, Sam Skipsey wrote:
>>
>> hi Mark:
>>
>> the first link you are following points to the Very Old and Not Very
>> Functional dpm-xrootd interface. It's in UMD1 simply because it's also
>> been the *only* dpm-xrootd interface until the new experimental one.
>>
>> The second link (which I gave) is to the New Experimental one (which
>> is actually not that experimental anymore, but does need you to enable
>> a few different repositories). As you have noticed, the YAIM
>> configuration for it is somewhat beta. I would advise configuring it
>> by hand following the instructions in the link (which do include
>> instructions for Alice support, IIRC).
>>
>> The configuration should be relatively straightforward even doing it by
>> hand.
>>
>> (If you have issues, please pass them along as I'll hand them to David
>> Smith, who's working on the new dpm-xrootd plugin.)
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On 20 August 2012 17:25, Mark Slater <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm having real trouble installing a new DPM pool node and enabling
>>> xrootd
>>> for Alice. I've tried two sets of instructions:
>>>
>>> https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/DpmXrootAccess22
>>>
>>> using the UMD1 repo. This gets all the way, YAIM succeeds but then I
>>> can't
>>> start the service as I get:
>>>
>>>
>>> [root@epgsr5 ~]# service dpm-cms start
>>> Error: /opt/lcg/bin/dpm-cmsd does not exist
>>> [root@epgsr5 ~]#
>>>
>>> and similar, i.e. the binaries/scripts aren't in the right place (and I
>>> can't find them either!).
>>>
>>> The other one was given by Sam in the email thread with Ewan and seems to
>>> have very little in common (I guess a lot has changed between UMD and
>>> EMI2?):
>>>
>>> https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/lcgdm/wiki/Dpm/Xroot/Setup
>>>
>>> using the EMI2 repo. This fails when I try to YAIM the node as it can't
>>> find
>>> the startup scripts, etc.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have instructions about how to do this using UMD1 or above?
>>> Note
>>> I don't want to setup Atlas federated stuff (yet!) just ALICE xrootd
>>> access!
>>>
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> THanks a lot,
>>>
>>> Mark
>
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