Hello, I did try to follow the instructions given in the Globus Toolkit documentation web page but I found a couple of gaps that mislead the deployment of basic grid services (simpleCA + gram5 + gridftp), e.g.
- The documentation does not mention that the grid-ca-certs package should be installed - The documentation can be more specific about the grid-ca-create command must be run by the globus user - When this command is run by globus user some files (found in ~/.globus/simpleCA) must be copied to the /etc/grid-security directory - The documentation should provide a hint which describes what [YUM and OSG specific] repositories should be installed for setting up a machine where Globus services would be provisioned ( https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/YumRepositories ) I have to thank to Marco Mambelli and Jose Caballero for their hints that allow me to define the correct set of steps for installing those services. Regards, PS: I wrote some Chef recipes which allow to deploy the aforementioned services in a physical or virtual machine
