> 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 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
