Absolutely, do not mount /opt/xcat on the SN from the MN. It has its own copy of /opt/xcat.
You should not be putting anything under /opt/xcat. This is where the xcat code resides. The process is as Arif describes below you put in /install/custom directory The following document has a good description of the setup for using otherpkgs postscript. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Using_Updatenode You do not need to put anything on the Service Node. xCAT will handle the hierarchy for you, as long as it is setup correctly. Review this doc also http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Setting_Up_a_Linux_Hierarchical_Cluster Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Arif Ali <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Date: 02/15/2012 04:26 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] synchronizing files under /opt/xcat/ between mn and service node Hi John, You could instead have /install/custom/install/centos/profile_compute.otherpkgs.pkglist instead of /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/profile_compute.otherpkgs.pkglist You shouldn't really add any custom stuff inside /opt/xcat anyway; My normal practice is to have all customer/custom stuff in /install/custom/.... i.e. /install/custom/install/centos/compute.tmpl /install/custom/install/rh/compute.tmpl /install/custom/netboot/centos/compute.pkglist etc... are all valid You can have all your files that you have in /opt/xcat/share/xcat, to be in /install/custom I hope that helps regards, Arif -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 15 February 2012 21:18, John Griffin-Wiesner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I've set up a service node, and all is working well except for > the otherpkgs postscript to nodes served by the service node. > The reason is that the file > /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/profile_compute.otherpkgs.pkglist > does not exist on the service node. > > This brings me to wonder if /opt/xcat should be served via nfs > from the management node to the service nodes, and if I missed > this step, if this is missing from the "Hierarchical Cluster" > doc, or missing from a servicenode postscript? > > Version 2.6.10 (svn r11351, built Thu Jan 5 03:19:35 EST 2012) > running on CentOS 6.2 > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > John Griffin-Wiesner > HPC Systems Administrator > Minnesota Supercomputing Institute > http://www.msi.umn.edu > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
