Good evening.
I've got a pile of Compaq DL360 servers that I'd like to oscarize. Here's what I've done:
Clean RedHat 9 install on master Oscar-2.3 tarball installed, configured into /opt/oscar
Because I have clients which expect to use /dev/ida/c0d0p{1,2,3} as partitions, I wrote my own samples.disk.ida file which looks like
/dev/ida/c0d0p1 100 ext2 /boot /dev/ida/c0d0p2 2048 swap /dev/ida/c0d0p3 * ext2 / <nfs_home entry>
I've got two problems:
Problem 1 can probably be solved by changing the sync-users.conf file (/opt/opium/etc/sync-users.conf)?
Anyway, it has a list of files it tries to sync, which you can change.
1. When I go through the oscar installation, I encounter no errors until I get to the "Define OSCAR Clients" step - Since I'm behind a firewall here, I don't really care about MD5/shadow passwords, so I have not enabled them on the master.
However, when I define my client, and hit the "Add Clients" button, I get the following messages on stdout:
--> Step 5: Running: ./post_clients --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/switcher/scripts/post_clients for switcher --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/pfilter/scripts/post_clients for pfilter cp -p /etc/pfilter.conf /etc/pfilter.conf.pre_oscar Adding OSCAR section to pfilter configuration file /etc/pfilter.conf Adding OSCAR section to pfilter configuration file /etc/pfilter.conf.clients (re)starting the pfilter firewall service on this server /etc/init.d/pfilter restart Restarting pfilter: [ OK ] --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/pbs/scripts/post_clients for pbs Shutting down PBS Server: [FAILED] Starting PBS Server: [ OK ] ...updating xpbsmonrc file --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/opium/scripts/post_clients for opium /usr/bin/md5sum: /etc/gshadow: No such file or directory ERROR, could not generate /opt/opium/etc/checksums! No such file or directory Script /opt/oscar/packages/opium/scripts/post_clients exitted badly with exit code '2' at ./post_clients line 40 Couldn't run post_clients script for opium at ./post_clients line 41 --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/mpich/scripts/post_clients for mpich ...updating mpich_server nodes file --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/maui/scripts/post_clients for maui Shutting down MAUI Scheduler: [FAILED] Starting MAUI Scheduler: [ OK ] --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/kernel_picker/scripts/post_clients for kernel_picker --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/c3/scripts/post_clients for c3 There were issues running post_clients. Please check your logs at ./post_clients line 46 No such file or directory at /usr/lib/systeminstaller/SystemInstaller/Tk/AddClients.pm line 195 Couldn't run postinstall at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Tk.pm line 228
So, it looks like OSCAR expects shadow passwd files. Is this a problem?
Problem 2- not sure about this one. I've encountered it before, but didn't even get as far as you did. You're right that RH doesn't have devfs support. If you put the devfs references into your disktable file, I'm not sure how System Imager (OSCAR's underlying component during the build) will leave the client disk.
You might have to hit System Imager's user list for help there.
Jeremy
2. I tried to perform the "Setup Networking" step, and the client was able to slurp the boot image from the master fine, except that when I get to the parted phase of the image installation, it croaks because of the /dev/ida device tree. I did some hunting around, and found that devfs has instead mapped /dev/ida/c0d0p* to /dev/ida/disc0/disc
RedHat 9 does not ship with devfs support in the kernel, which makes it somewhat questionable as to whether or not using devfs for the imaging operation won't cause problems later on.
Is there a workaround for this? I can't seem to find much on this in my googling.
Regards,
Eliot -- ==================================================== Eliot Lebsack Senior Communications Engineer The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA
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