Bernard,
Thanks. The simplest "fix" is to document this, and that is probably
the way to go. A fuller fix would involve using more of the facilities
of SIS, etc, to do the update (which would really change the way the
post-install stuff works).
Frank
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 05:43, Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi Frank:
>
> Yes, I have just confirmed this - when I simply need to re-image a node
> (i.e. netboot it and grab the image off the oscar server) - you need to
> manually re-run the post_install script in /opt/pbs/bin.
>
> I don't know if this is the expected behaviour, perhaps the developers
> can give us some idea as to the best way to go around this.
>
> I guess it would also be handy to just run post_install on the node(s)
> that we have re-imaged, instead of the entire cluster node.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
> Frank Crawford wrote:
>
> > Bernard,
> > The second option, i.e. Simply re-boot, have it network boot and thus
> > re-image. We needed to do this due to a disk dying, and then found that
> > not everything was updated on the selected machine.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 02:44, Bernard Li wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Frank:
> >>
> >>When you say 're-image' - do you mean:
> >>
> >>1. Delete the node and then add it again in the same shot
> >>2. Simply re-boot the machine and have it network boot and thus
> >>re-imaging the machine
> >>
> >>I will try to reproduce the problem with our current install of Oscar
> >>v2.3 with RedHat 9.0.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Bernard
> >>
> >>Frank Crawford wrote:
> >>
> >>>Folks,
> >>> I've noticed that if you reimage a node in an OSCAR cluster you need to
> >>>rerun post_install again, otherwise a number of settings are no longer
> >>>available. For example, the pfilter.conf file does not include any
> >>>other nodes, similarly, ntp is not configured and neither are many of
> >>>the other options.
> >>>
> >>> First off this probably should be documented, but a better fix would be
> >>>to better integrate these updates with SIS, either being directly
> >>>installed into the image, or added to the override directory.
> >>>
> >>>Frank
>
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