clustering

2002-07-26 Thread Robert Casey
I have the following situation and wondered if anyone has any experience with this and can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to set up a Beowulf cluster and all machines are running either Red Hat 7.1 or 7.2. There are 5 computers including the head node plus one system which is the

Re: clustering

2002-07-26 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
I can say with all certainty that I know absolutly nothing about clustering. Never want to, either. It makes my head hurt However, this sounds like a simple networking setup. The head node would have to act as a gateway/router. First, turn on IP forwarding (echo 1

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Putting it under /usr doesn't really make sense -- /usr is where static files live, not user data. This does seem to be a best practice nowadays. However, there used to be a time when user directories used to be placed under /usr. Then things changed, and

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that leaves us with no place to put htdocs. Putting it under /usr doesn't really make sense -- /usr is where static files live, not user data. /usr/local/htdocs might make sense, but Red Hat wanted to leave /usr/local for things not

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:03:26 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Another, similar debate is whether /usr/local should be for site-local or machine-local files. We've had that here before, too. I've actually flip-flopped my opinion of this one :) I used to advocate that /usr/local

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread bscott
On 26 Jul 2002, at 2:53pm, Kevin D. Clark wrote: However, there used to be a time when user directories used to be placed under /usr. Right. From what I understand, the embryonic Unix systems were single-user machines, with a very few top level directories: /src for source, /bin for

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread pll
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Anyone used to any other Unix will Ben find Linux a bit weird in this respect. Let's re-write this as: Anyone used to any one particular OS will find another particular OS a bit wierd in this respect. I think

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:08:02 EDT Rich Payne said: On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:20:58 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, at 11:08am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or what /etc/exports is under: -

Re: thanks

2002-07-26 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:35:52 EDT Robert Casey said: Wow, those were quick replies. I will take the advice but I'll have to do it starting Monday because I'm going home for the weekend, with a headache I might add. Print yourself out a copy of the IPChains docs before you go.

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread Michael O'Donnell
I'm giving the FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) package a test drive at Paul's suggestion and wonder if anybody here has tried it. I'm hitting some speedbumps that (I think) have something to do with my attempts to use FAI's DHCP boot method with the DHCP server from the dhcpd3 package.

Re: clustering

2002-07-26 Thread pll
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Robert == Robert Casey wrote: Robert is there a way the slave nodes, which are on the 192 Robert network, can see the 155 network so I don't have to create Robert all the users on each slave node to match user id and group Robert id. Set up IP forwarding on the

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread Tom Buskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 26 Jul 2002, at 2:53pm, Kevin D. Clark wrote: However, there used to be a time when user directories used to be placed under /usr. Right. From what I understand, the embryonic Unix systems were single-user machines, with a very few top level directories: /src for

Re: Playing DVDs on Linux

2002-07-26 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: FOr some reason, VLC does not produce acceptable speed on my hardware, and I'm yet to be able to figure out why. My config is pentium III/800 MHz, DVD speed is 5x (with the best hdparm setting it can handle), software decoder. Should this