Hi John,
Thanks for your thoughts. We'll look to improve the GT doc based on your
feedback.
http://jira.globus.org/browse/GT-305
Cheers,
Stu
On Oct 17, 2012, at Oct 17, 8:58 AM, john alexander sanabria ordonez wrote:
> 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
