It looks like I forgot to follow up with the resolution to this problem. The actual workaround was to add “< /dev/console” to the command line.
/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmsdrrestore -p ut003 -R /usr/bin/scp < /dev/console The problem seems to be that under RHEL7, the postscripts do not have a /dev/tty and stdin is not a tty. I did not check under CentOS 6, but presume it had worked (and still works) that way because the scripts had always been run under a pseudoterminal. If the cluster is set up with central mode ssh authentication, the xcat code refuses to attempt an operation that might require typing a password if there is no tty …. Hope this is useful. — ddj Dave Johnson Brown University > On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Christopher Samuel <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > On 07/02/17 22:35, David D Johnson wrote: > >> Now the problem of the day is fixing the SSH credentials so that all >> the diskless nodes booting off the new frontend can get root access >> to all the nodes still booted off the old frontend. Need this >> especially for GPFS. > > For our diskless nodes we run them as statelite and have this in our > litefile config: > > "ALL","/var/adm/","persistent",, > "ALL","/var/mmfs/","persistent",, > > this means that once set up our diskless nodes need no manual > intervention to bring GPFS up. > > Hope this helps! > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative > Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
