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Dear All There are some useful update talks being given at the EGEE/LCG operations workshop today. For those with little time I would encourage you to at least look at Markus' talk at 16:00: http://infnforge.cnaf.infn.it/cdsagenda//fullAgenda.php?ida=a0517 With regard to the issue of a repository as discussed on this list earlier today please see slide 12 of the above talk. There is now an intention to provide a software repository. There is also useful information about the next release and issues with gLite deployment that may be of interest. Again, I urge you to write to the list or myself with feedback on any of this material - several of us are at the meeting to present your views! Thanks, Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes on behalf of owen maroney Sent: Tue 5/24/2005 12:51 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Sites not publishing accounting data Hi all, Well, if we've learned one thing over the last year is that if LCG doesn't have the manpower/inclination to do something, we can often just do it ourselves... (and often push LCG into finding the manpower/inclination on the way) So, is it possible for us to create a GridPP apt/yum/up2date repository where we can put all the fixes and extra rpms GridPP wishes? Adding rpms to this repository and keeping it up to date should be responsibility of the UK/I ROC (ie. the Deployment Team - Tier 2 Co-ordinators, Steve Traylen, the various specialist support posts etc.) Verifying it has the correct rpms would probably involve the UK testzone sites. regards, Owen. Alessandra Forti wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I've done the saem for manchester and it works. > > cheers > alessandra > > On Tue, 24 May 2005, Peter Gronbech wrote: > >> Hi Simon and all, >> I agree with your point that the LCG release should work as is, or there >> should be an updates dir to point yum at. In the mean time this is how I >> do it, just for info.... >> >> >> I make a local mirror of SL304 and LCG as per the wiki entry here: >> http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/Mirror_LCG_Packages >> and use yum with yaim as described here: >> http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/Using_yum_to_install_LCG >> >> I then added a separate tree called oxford for extra bits like ganglia, >> yumit, java and the latest apel rpm. >> So my yum repository is /localdisk/yum, as below, If then type yum-arch >> oxford >> that produces the headers so that the oxford bit can be added to my >> yum.conf. >> Then I can just do a yum -y update on all my nodes and I pick up the >> apel rpm. >> >> Cheers Pete >> >> [root@t2lcfg yum]# ls -al >> total 24 >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 29 10:32 . >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 20 10:15 .. >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 20 13:17 lcg >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 19 17:10 oxford >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 21 07:53 SL >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 26 10:48 yaim >> [root@t2lcfg yum]# ls -al oxford >> total 36092 >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 19 17:10 . >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 29 10:32 .. >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 582662 Apr 29 13:02 >> edg-rgma-apel-3.4.44-1.noarch.rpm >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 582658 May 6 11:11 >> edg-rgma-apel-3.4.45-1.noarch.rpm >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105471 May 4 12:54 >> ganglia-monitor-core-gmond-2.5.7-1.i386.rpm >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 19 17:10 headers >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35602188 Apr 15 13:23 >> j2sdk-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.rpm >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9756 Apr 29 10:36 >> yumit-client-2.0.2-1.noarch.rpm >> >> >> yum.conf >> [root@t2mon02 install-scripts]# more /etc/yum.conf >> [main] >> cachedir=/var/cache/yum >> debuglevel=2 >> logfile=/var/log/yum.log >> pkgpolicy=newest >> tolerant=1 >> exactarch=1 >> >> [sl303server] >> name=SL 303 main >> #baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/$basearch/SL >> /RPMS/ >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/SL/3.0.4/$basearch/SL/RPMS/ >> >> [sl303errata] >> name=SL 303 errata >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/SL/3.0.4/$basearch/errata/SL/ >> RPMS/ >> >> >> [oxfordserver] >> name=Oxford >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/oxford/ >> >> [sl-lcg] >> name=LCG packages >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/lcg/2_4_0/sl3/ >> >> [sl-lcg-ca] >> name=LCG CA packages >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/lcg/ca/ >> >> >> [sl-yaim] >> name=LCG Yaim Software for >> baseurl=http://t2lcfg.physics.ox.ac.uk/yum/yaim/sl3 >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Peter Gronbech Unix Systems Manager Tel No. : 01865 273389 >> Department of Particle Physics Fax No. : 01865 273418 >> University of Oxford, >> Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK E-mail : [log in to unmask] >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon George >> Sent: 24 May 2005 11:06 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: Sites not publishing accounting data >> >> Hi Jeremy, >> >> at the last tb-support meeting, as far as I recall, it was confirmed >> that the accounting package in LCG 2.4.0 does not work, which was >> thought likely to be the reason why some sites (e.g. RHUL) had followed >> the installation instructions but not got accounting working. >> >> I asked why fixes considered necessary (like this) are not put in to the >> apt/yum rpm respository for LCG software, so they can be upgraded >> automatically or by site admins just running the standard update >> command. We are already doing this to get o/s updates and CA updates. It >> has to be by far the easiest and most standard way to distribute both >> important bug fixes and security fixes. I don't see why this needs to be >> any more complicated. Has there been any progress on this? >> >> I still maintain that I should not have to go beyond the 2.4.0 >> installation instructions (and maintenance instructions when they are >> available) to get my site functioning as fully as LCG needs. If that is >> not true, the the problem is with LCG 2.4.0, not my site! >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> Coles, J (Jeremy) wrote: >> >>> Dear All >>> >>> At the last TB-SUPPORT meeting we reviewed sites not publishing >> >> accounting data but reiterated the need for this to be collected so that >> we understand usage of the resources. >> >>> >>> The following sites are still not producing any data. Please could the >> >> relevant Tier-2 coordinator follow up with their sites to understand any >> problems: >> >>> >>> hp-bristol >>> csTCDie >>> Cavendish-LCG2 >>> LivHEP-LCG2 >>> QMUL-eScience >>> RHUL-LCG2 >>> UCL-HEP >>> >>> I understand that there are some special cases here. If there are >> >> problems with the site (publishing) we need to understand how to improve >> the situation. Where everything is set up correctly but jobs are just >> not arriving we need to follow up with the VOs. >> >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> Jeremy >> >> > > -- > ******************************************** > * Dr Alessandra Forti * > * Technical Coordinator - NorthGrid Tier2 * > * http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/aforti * > ******************************************** -- ======================================================= Dr O J E Maroney # London Tier 2 Technical Co-ordinator Tel. 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