Hi Chris, Thanks for the response, this is useful info! > I have a working CE with only bdii.noarch installed: > To install the CE, I did: .... > yum -y install lcg-CE > yum -y install glite-info-provider-ldap Why install glite-info-provider-ldap? Is this CE your site-bdii as well? YaimGuide400#The_configuration_variables mentions glite-info-provider-ldap in connection with "When the BDII is installed together with the lcg CE,...." > According to my cfengine stuff, I then felt the need to correct the > permissions on the following files (but this might by a hangover from some > long fixed problem): > > /opt/glite/libexec/glite-info-wrapper owner=root group=root mode=644 Hmm, all our CE have that as an exectuable file. > I also create the softlink > > /lib/libcares.so.0 -> /opt/c-ares/lib/libcares.so.0 Hmm, that link already exists on all our CE (new+old). > There's a whole bunch of iptables/hosts.allow stuff next (which I'm > guessing will be ok on your CE). Yeah, it seems to work despite oddities. > /opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s /root/yaim-conf/site-info.def -n lcg-CE -n TORQUE_server -n TORQUE_utils > > which then messed up my maui config, so I copied that back into place > afterwards, and restarted maui. Exactly what I did. Thanks for your feedback!