On 11/05/10 23:30, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I have read articles on xCAT and > was always intereted in it, I just never got around to > actually installing it and trying it myself.
We're using xCAT on our SGI cluster and it works nicely, including its xdsh and xdshbak commands. Version 2 of xCAT is available from SourceForge and installable via a yum repository. > You would still need to authenticate to run commands > as root. Where ssh is used, this would require the > admin to have a key that's in root's authorized_keys > file to run a remote command as root. On a cluster set up with xCAT all that is taken care of for you through its kickstart and postscript stuff. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/
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