> Hi Alex:

Hi

>> Apart from the one you metion above, I think that while
>> downloading the image
>> on the client, apart of showing the percentage, also would be
>> useful to show
>> the download and upload rates.
>
> Sure, we'll keep that in mind.
>
> BTW, have you used si_monitor(tk)?  It shows you installation progress
> and would show you the "download" rate of all the nodes - perhaps you
> can give that a shot.

I tried it but didn't work, although I didn't spend much time searching
for the problem. I will give another try.

>> Also I've seen that after finishing the installation, the tar
>> image doesn't
>> get removed and has world readable permissions. I think it would be a
>> security problem, at least in our case in which we will use
>> SystemImager to
>> install computer classrooms.
>
> We left it there such that it could be seeded in the future - I *think*
> there is an option of telling it to remove the tarball if the user wants
> to, but I'll have to double check that.  The tarball being world
> readable definitely seems like a bad thing, I'll make sure to change
> that.
>
>> One last thing I forget to mention i the last post. I'm not
>> sure why it
>> happens, but the /tmp directory gets wrong permissions.
>>
>> In the image server:
>>
>> # ls -ld /var/lib/systemimager/images/aules/tmp/
>> drwxrwxrwt  10 root root 4096 May  3
>> 11:42 /var/lib/systemimager/images/aules/tmp/
>>
>> In the tar file:
>>
>> # tar vtf /var/lib/systemimager/tarballs/image-aules.tar
>> ...
>> drwxrwxrwt root/root         0 2006-05-03 11:42:23 ./tmp/
>> ...
>>
>> But in the installed client:
>>
>> # ls -ld /tmp
>> drw-r--r-- 20 root root 4096 May 5 11:01 /tmp
>>
>> I'm using rpms built from svn trunk r3536. I will have to
>> investigate some
>> further...
>
> I have noticed similar strangeness that I have reported to Andrea.
> Basically I imaged a Red Hat OS and the file size of
> /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys in the imaged node is different from the one in the
> original image.  The worst thing is that this actually corrupts the RPM
> database!

I also notice some file size differences.

> I think the tarball itself is fine, it's just that perhaps extracting it
> onto the filesystem causes some strange encoding problem.
>
> I don't have time to track this down yet, but if you have some ideas, it
> would really help speed things up.

I will look at this if I find some time.

Cheers,
Alex


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