FYI 2 bug reports have been opened related to your problems (Ticket #288 and
#289)
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 16:41, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Greetings! I'm returning to the OSCAR devel list now as a user
> rather than a developer. :-)
>
> We are using OSCAR for some of my MPI development clusters in Cisco.
> I have noticed a few problems with OSCAR 5 on RHEL4U4 that I thought
> I'd report here:
>
> 1. /etc/profile.d/ssh-oscar.[c]sh: the second thing these scripts do
> is (bash version):
>
> home=`getent passwd | egrep "^$user\:" | awk -F: '{print $6}' | tail -1`
>
> In Cisco, our clusters are part of the corporate-wide NIS setup.
> This means that "getent passwd" downloads a 7+MB file with over
> 100,000 containing entries. This means that a single login takes
> almost 2 minutes while this download is going on as part of normal /
> etc/profile.d/*.sh processing. Yikes!
>
> Is there a reason that the following form is not used instead:
>
> home=`getent passwd $user | awk -F: '{print $6}' | tail -1`
>
> As far as I can tell, this just downloads the single user's record
> (which is darn near instantaneous). If there's portability problems
> with this approach (I don't know if "getent" on different Linux
> distros takes different argv), perhaps something like this could be
> used (untested -- just typed out here in my mail client):
>
> home=`getent passwd $user`
> if test "$?" != "0"; then
> home=`getent passwd | egrep "^$user\:"`
> fi
> home=`echo $home | awk -F: '{print $6}' | tail -1`
>
> 2. If I build an oscar image and then go back, make some changes, and
> then try to build it again, I get a popup box saying "Are you sure
> you want to overwrite this image?" (paraphrase). If I click "yes",
> it fails to build the image. I have to name my new image something
> different than the original image. Is there a reason for this?
>
> That's it so far. Thanks!
--
Geoff
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