Hello,
OK. I'm volunteering to remove all reference to the service command in
OSCAR and do directly
/etc/init.d/$service (start|stop|restart)
instead of
service $service (start|stop|restart)
Ben
* Neil Gorsuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-09-14 11:47]:
> All of oscar needs to abandon the service command and do:
> /etc/init.d/name [start|stop|whatever]
> instead of:
> service name [start|stop|whatever]
> I found out that on all of the linuxes I looked at, /etc/init.d is the
> only path to the init.d commands scripts that works everywhere, it is
> either a linked-to or link-to the directory that has all the init.d
> command scripts.
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 08:37, Benoit des Ligneris wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The SuSe support in OSCAR is not official ... yet.
>
> It is very impressive that you manage to have the wizard running (thanks
> NCSA folks for this ;-) however the remaining step is a bit complicated.
>
> Can you please post your complete OSCAR version as well as you
> oscarinstall.log ?
>
> As fas as I know, some commands that are heavily in use in OSCAR does
> not exists on SuSe, espescially the "service" command that allow to
> stop/restart/start a service. This will cause failure in some scripts.
>
> Another thing is the image building step and that's where you are
> blocking right now. As I have already "ported" OSCAR to other disto, I
> will try to explain my "methodology" :
>
> 1) Select only the minimal number of packages (only the core packages)
>
> 2) With this limited subset you will have to tweak :
> a- The suse rpmlist (in oscarsample/suse-9.1-i386.rpmlist)
> b- The config.xml of every package you have installed :
> - base/config.xml
> - c3/config.xml
> - oda/config.xml
> - perl-Qt/config.xml
> - sis/config.xml
> - switcher/config.xml
> - sync_files/config.xml
>
> All the dependencies (in the oscarsample/suse-9.1-i386.rpmlist) have to
> be solved. A quick way to have a working list is to list the rpm
> installed on a given (minimal) system :
> rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n"|sort > my-list.rpmlist
>
> Some packages are very distro specific, in this case :
> * perl-Qt : Check that the rpm is working otherwise recompile
>
> * switcher : Recompile for SuSe and modify the setup script
>
> * base : Mofify the list of prerequisite for SuSe 9.1 (cut & paste
> the <filter distribution='suse' distribution_version='8.1'
> group='oscar_server' /> section to make a
> <filter distribution='suse' distribution_version='9.1'
> group='oscar_server' /> section)
>
>
> 3) Once you have a working minimal subset, add one package at a time and
> check that it is installing and working corretcly
>
> All in all, this is really a development task and I would be happy to
> help.
>
> Ben
>
> PS : I would like to have some input from the NCSA folks, especially
> about the service command and other problems they had with SuSe
> support ?
>
> * Rajeev Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-09-14 06:09]:
> > >>>Rajeev Sharma 09/14 4:24 pm >>>
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I am new to oscar and trying to install it on SUSE Linux 9.1 .
> > I have installed the oscar server( by running install_cluster.sh) and
> > able to got the Wizard.
> > Till server Pkgs installation in the wizard, everything went fine but
> > when i tried to make the cliebt image , it gave me a long error.(got
> > it from "oscarinstall.log" file).
> > Then i tried to make my own rpmlist in respect of the pkgs from
> > /tftpboot/rpm but it also didn't work.
> >
> > The error it gives, "couldn't find (a long list of pkgs)"...i tried to
> > add and remove the pkgs from the rpmlist file , but it was like a loop
> > an didn't gave me any fruitfull output.
> >
> > Is there anybody has tried to install oscar on any version of SUSE
> > linux.
> > Looking for help :-
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > rajeev
>
>
>
> --
>
> Neil Gorsuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> NCSA
>
> References
>
> 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Benoit des Ligneris Ph. D.
President de Revolution Linux http://www.revolutionlinux.com/
OSCAR Chair http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/
Chef de projet EduLinux http://www.edulinux.org/
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