Hello all On 07/19/2011 11:09 AM, Bernhard Linseisen wrote: > For an extensive answer you probably should ask the people at CERN IT > directly, but so far I can tell you:
Thank you Bernhard for the answer , very nice summary ! I will just add a little: > About the default RPMs I don't know. Default set of packages for SLC installation differs from base SL or RH / CentOS: One of our users requirement is to be able to easily install a system which provides same package sets and configuration as our centrally managed interactive computing clusters. [ this set changes in between major releases and sometimes also in between minor ones ] > > If it is suitable outside depends what you mean by "suitable". > If "suitable" means "it runs" then I'd say yes. (At least it was like that > when I tried SLC5. I'm sure this is still the case: installation process detects if a given system is on a CERN network (during firstboot launch) and then performs (or not) CERN specific configuration adjustements ( AFS / Kerberos / time servers / sendmail / ... etc ...) > The question is more: Why would you need SLC6 instead of SL6? I couldn;t agree more: as it was already mentioned CERN provides SLC support to CERN users (well, of course if resources and time permits we also respond to outside users, but with lower priority) [ I guess this is similar in case of FNAL and the SLF used there or DESY and SLD variants .. ] Best Regards Jarek [ CERN Linux Support ] __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok __________________ CERN - IT/OIS/ODS _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_76_487_9487 _
