Thanks Sam! I'll try this today and see how I get on :)
Mark
On 21/08/12 10:12, Sam Skipsey wrote:
> 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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