Hi Bernard. Thanks a lot.This definetely helps. Once thing is it rules out
the manual change of hosts file as this will definetely not help. But does
that mean that I would have to run a name server on the master node?
because currently the name look-ups in the cluster are "hosts" file based
and hence there had been no neccessity to run a local name server for the
cluster.

Sincerely,
Sarat.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Bernard Li wrote:

> Hi Sarat:
>
> You might be better off putting the hostname of the DB server in DNS or
> something in your domain, so that it can be looked up instead of
> depending on hosts file.
>
> In the current state I think if you modify the /etc/hosts file, it will
> get overwritten the next time nodes are imaged, etc.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
> Sarat C Maruvada wrote:
>
> > Hi Bernard. Thank you very much for the prompt reply. I get the idea as to
> > what is to be done. The reason I had a doubt in the first place was i
> > would need to make the neccessary modification in the /etc/hosts file of
> > every node in the cluster. And this is a file that is periodically pushed
> > to all nodes. So I was wondering if there would be some kind of problem if
> > I manually edit this and push it to all nodes and then later on add a
> > slave node to the cluster. Thanks a lot for your time.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Sarat.
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Bernard Li wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi Sarat:
> >>
> >>So basically you want an independent server which acts as the database
> >>server and you want your slave nodes to be able to mount a FS exported
> >>off that database server.
> >>
> >>This can actually be done really easily - you would basically just want
> >>to set up the DB server separately (load the OS independently) and then
> >>create an export for your NFS mount, then just modify your slave nodes'
> >>/etc/fstab to reflect that.  You can do that very exactly with cexec.
> >>
> >>If you have questions about any of the steps, please let us know.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Bernard
> >>
> >>Sarat C Maruvada wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello Everybody.I am currently building a Linux cluster for bioinformatic
> >>>application and am using OSCAR 2.3.1 for basic image installation. Using
> >>>this I have successfully managed to run all the slave nodes. What we would
> >>>like to add is a "database node", which will not be a part of slave nodes
> >>>but more independent like the master node. The file system will have to be
> >>>mounted on all the slave nodes but i have doubts about installing it like
> >>>any other OSCAR node. How sould I go about the integration of a node that
> >>>is not maintained by OSCAR with other oscar nodes??any help would be
> >>>appriciated.
> >>>
> >>>Sincerely,
> >>>Sarat.
> >>>
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