On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:10:04PM +0200 or thereabouts, Debreczeni Gergely wrote: > Hi ! > > Users are complainig - when they put OS requirements into their > jdl file - that apparently there is no LCG-wide agreement on > OS naming conventions. Indeed, a quick survey gives the result > below. Should we somehow define the possible OS names ? > May there was already a discussion about this issue ? > thanks, > Gergely People have tried, no one can agree. Using lsb_release -d is the favourite though (well at least mine). There is even features in gstat to police peoples setting once agreement is made. For me this shows Description: Scientific Linux SL Release 3.0.3 (SL) which could translate as GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific Linux SL GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease: 3.0.3 GlueHostOperatingSystemVersion: SL but that is open. Steve > > > ldapsearch -x -H ldap://site-bdii.some.where:2170 -b \ > mds-vo-name=sitename,o=grid | grep -i GlueHostOperatingSystemName > > > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > Could not create LDAP session handle (3): Time limit exceeded > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific Linux > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: ScientificLinux > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SLC > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific Linux > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > lueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SLC > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SLC > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Redhat > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SLC > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: RedHat > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SL > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: SLC > GlueHostOperatingSystemName: Scientific -- Steve Traylen [log in to unmask] http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/