Hi Chris, > though it isn't annotated and I agree with whoever it was that said that "XML is file format that is neither easily human or machine readable." it was me long time ago when they wanted to throw away YAIM in favour of a glite configuration tool in python and XML that would have been more difficult for sys admins to use and patch. > YAIM is a great starting point and I don't want to see it go away but quite rightly it's not going to support all the possible setups of a grid site, but it certainly > appears to me to be used by the developers as an excuse to not do proper packaging. This most certainly will be highlighted and underscored in my slides. > YAIMing a node after an update should be a rare exception when they are introducing major new functionality not the norm is seems to be now to fix file > permissions that really should be done in the rpm and replacing config files that got needlessly removed by the upgrade. Agree on this too. cheers alessandra