Re: [sisuite-users] NextGen Systemimager (dracut based): progress
Olivier, I'll take dare is that udpcast upload today. Thanks! -Brian On Jan 21, 2015 8:19 AM, LAHAYE Olivier olivier.lah...@cea.fr wrote: Hi, I've just been able to create a cracut systemd based systemimager initrd image that is able to image a node. This is a great step forward as it should work on all system that can build initrd using dracut tool. For the moment I've only tested on fedora20 build and imaged a centos7 node without any problem. The image was created by hand using dracut and systemd from the standard systemimager initrd_template. I've just added a systemimager.target, a systemimager.service that runs /etc/init.d/rcS. This is ugly but it does work fine. Now that I' have a proof of concept, I'm working on the systemimage build process to avoid building useless stuffs (only build systemimager specific stuffs and use everything else from the build host). Now I'm hitting a small issue with udpcast. I need a more recent version, because the systemimager version fails to build on recent linus distros. So if someone who can have access to systemimager download tree could update it with latest udpcast tarball, that would help me a lot. Basically I need http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/download/udpcast-20120424.tar.bz2 to be placed in http://download.systemimager.org/pub/udpcast/ There is still lot of work to do like identify what build host binaries should be copied into dracut image, but if I'm not interrupted, I should have a test version in a few weeks. This version will be somewhat ugly regarding dracut concept as it won't use a systemimager dedicated dracut module to create the image, just a giant dracut commandline, but the result should be working well. Once this phase is proven to work on most majort distros (deb+rpm), Ill try to learn how to create a systemimager dracut module so I can simplify and enhance the UYOK option. This should work on non systemd based system as well; though I haven't tested yet. -- Olivier LAHAYE CEA DRT/LIST/DIR -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Thank you, Yann.
I'll get them into the SystemImager Debian repo.
-Brian
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:29 AM, yann aubert yann.aub...@ipno.in2p3.frwrote:
Hi Brian,
You can find debian packages here :
https://ipnfiles.in2p3.fr/373a
Yann
On dim., 2014-01-19 at 22:59 -0600, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
Steven,
I'm afraid I'm testing with an unstable version that I'm prepping to
release, but it's not ready yet.
Yann -- do you have debs that you have built from your 4.2.x source
tree? If so, I'd like to add them to the SystemImager Debian repo and
get a copy to Steven.
Thanks, -Brian
On 2014-01-17, 08:36:14pm, DuChene, Steven A wrote:
OK, I just checked the debian/Ubuntu system where I am trying to run
si_prepareclient and it has systemimager v4.1.6 packages installed.
I notice the patch you sent seems to be from a 4.2.X branch. Where do I
get that branch from??? The newest available from the sourceforge files
section is 4.1.6 from 2008.
Is there any place to download this from so I can transfer it to a
group of systems that do not have internet access?
--
Steven DuChene
-Original Message-
From: DuChene, Steven A
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:17 AM
To: Brian Elliott Finley
Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Brian:
What version of systemimager are you using to do your testing? I am
looking on the source forge files area and everything there is very old. Is
there some place where you are storing newer versions? I will try the patch
you sent though and see if applies cleanly to the bits I have installed.
--
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:br...@thefinleys.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:16 PM
To: DuChene, Steven A
Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Thanks for the good information, Steven.
It looks like Yann Aubert may have fixed the parsing issue. I checked
out his repo, and see this in his commit log:
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
└─[$] svn log
r4 | aubert | 2011-12-08 07:36:16 -0600 (Thu, 08 Dec 2011) | 2
lines
- Fix pvdisplay parsing when column appears in device name
r3 | aubert | 2011-12-07 11:58:21 -0600 (Wed, 07 Dec 2011) | 2
lines
fix interface discovery problem when compiling with linux 3.0
r2 | aubert | 2011-12-01 11:37:38 -0600 (Thu, 01 Dec 2011) | 2
lines
Debian packages can be generated again
r1 | aubert | 2011-11-30 11:27:04 -0600 (Wed, 30 Nov 2011) | 2
lines
Importé de svn.systemiager.org
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
└─[$] svn diff -r PREV
Index: lib/SystemImager/Common.pm
===
--- lib/SystemImager/Common.pm (revision 3)
+++ lib/SystemImager/Common.pm (working copy)
@@ -1062,11 +1062,12 @@
$part = $disk . $minor;
}
# Get physical volume information -AR-
-my $cmd = pvdisplay -c /dev/$part 2/dev/null;
+my $cmd = pvs --noheadings -o vg_name /dev/$part
2/dev/null;
open (PV_INFO, $cmd|);
unless (eof(PV_INFO)) {
-my @pv_data = split(/:/, PV_INFO);
-my $vg_name = $pv_data[1];
+ my $vg_name = PV_INFO;
+ chomp ($vg_name);
+ $vg_name = substr ($vg_name, 2);
# This partition will become part to the volume group
$vg_name -AR-
print DISK_FILE qq( lvm_group=$vg_name);
}
Hope that helps in the mean time. You can give it a try by applying
the attached patch to your installed system...
As for the kernel, si_prepareclient completed successfully for me on
Quantal. It's one release newer than what you were using, but I have no
reason to expect it to not work with that kernel either.
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
└─[$] lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 12.10
Release:12.10
Codename: quantal
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
└─[$] uname -r
3.5.0-45-generic
Cheers, -Brian
On 2013-12-10, 05:02:10pm, Steven DuChene wrote:
Bryan:
Sorry I missed getting to SC2013
Did you ever get
Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Steven,
I'm afraid I'm testing with an unstable version that I'm prepping to
release, but it's not ready yet.
Yann -- do you have debs that you have built from your 4.2.x source
tree? If so, I'd like to add them to the SystemImager Debian repo and
get a copy to Steven.
Thanks, -Brian
On 2014-01-17, 08:36:14pm, DuChene, Steven A wrote:
OK, I just checked the debian/Ubuntu system where I am trying to run
si_prepareclient and it has systemimager v4.1.6 packages installed.
I notice the patch you sent seems to be from a 4.2.X branch. Where do I get
that branch from??? The newest available from the sourceforge files section is
4.1.6 from 2008.
Is there any place to download this from so I can transfer it to a group of
systems that do not have internet access?
--
Steven DuChene
-Original Message-
From: DuChene, Steven A
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:17 AM
To: Brian Elliott Finley
Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Brian:
What version of systemimager are you using to do your testing? I am looking on
the source forge files area and everything there is very old. Is there some
place where you are storing newer versions? I will try the patch you sent
though and see if applies cleanly to the bits I have installed.
--
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:br...@thefinleys.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:16 PM
To: DuChene, Steven A
Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Thanks for the good information, Steven.
It looks like Yann Aubert may have fixed the parsing issue. I checked out his
repo, and see this in his commit log:
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
└─[$] svn log
r4 | aubert | 2011-12-08 07:36:16 -0600 (Thu, 08 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
- Fix pvdisplay parsing when column appears in device name
r3 | aubert | 2011-12-07 11:58:21 -0600 (Wed, 07 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
fix interface discovery problem when compiling with linux 3.0
r2 | aubert | 2011-12-01 11:37:38 -0600 (Thu, 01 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
Debian packages can be generated again
r1 | aubert | 2011-11-30 11:27:04 -0600 (Wed, 30 Nov 2011) | 2 lines
Importé de svn.systemiager.org
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
└─[$] svn diff -r PREV
Index: lib/SystemImager/Common.pm
===
--- lib/SystemImager/Common.pm (revision 3)
+++ lib/SystemImager/Common.pm (working copy)
@@ -1062,11 +1062,12 @@
$part = $disk . $minor;
}
# Get physical volume information -AR-
-my $cmd = pvdisplay -c /dev/$part 2/dev/null;
+my $cmd = pvs --noheadings -o vg_name /dev/$part 2/dev/null;
open (PV_INFO, $cmd|);
unless (eof(PV_INFO)) {
-my @pv_data = split(/:/, PV_INFO);
-my $vg_name = $pv_data[1];
+ my $vg_name = PV_INFO;
+ chomp ($vg_name);
+ $vg_name = substr ($vg_name, 2);
# This partition will become part to the volume group
$vg_name -AR-
print DISK_FILE qq( lvm_group=$vg_name);
}
Hope that helps in the mean time. You can give it a try by applying the
attached patch to your installed system...
As for the kernel, si_prepareclient completed successfully for me on Quantal.
It's one release newer than what you were using, but I have no reason to
expect it to not work with that kernel either.
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
└─[$] lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 12.10
Release:12.10
Codename: quantal
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
└─[$] uname -r
3.5.0-45-generic
Cheers, -Brian
On 2013-12-10, 05:02:10pm, Steven DuChene wrote:
Bryan:
Sorry I missed getting to SC2013
Did you ever get a chance to look at this Ubuntu 12.04 issue with
systemimager?
--
Steve
On 11/18/2013 07:27 AM, DuChene, Steven A wrote:
Brian:
Any updates yet on the issues I raised below with systemimager?
--
Steven DuChene
*From:*Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:br...@thefinleys.com]
*Sent:* Monday, November 04, 2013 8:35 PM
*To:* SISuite Users List
*Subject:* Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the report. I'll see if I can re-create it in the lab, and
update the code accordingly
Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Thanks for the good information, Steven.
It looks like Yann Aubert may have fixed the parsing issue. I checked
out his repo, and see this in his commit log:
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
└─[$] svn log
r4 | aubert | 2011-12-08 07:36:16 -0600 (Thu, 08 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
- Fix pvdisplay parsing when column appears in device name
r3 | aubert | 2011-12-07 11:58:21 -0600 (Wed, 07 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
fix interface discovery problem when compiling with linux 3.0
r2 | aubert | 2011-12-01 11:37:38 -0600 (Thu, 01 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
Debian packages can be generated again
r1 | aubert | 2011-11-30 11:27:04 -0600 (Wed, 30 Nov 2011) | 2 lines
Importé de svn.systemiager.org
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
└─[$] svn diff -r PREV
Index: lib/SystemImager/Common.pm
===
--- lib/SystemImager/Common.pm (revision 3)
+++ lib/SystemImager/Common.pm (working copy)
@@ -1062,11 +1062,12 @@
$part = $disk . $minor;
}
# Get physical volume information -AR-
-my $cmd = pvdisplay -c /dev/$part 2/dev/null;
+my $cmd = pvs --noheadings -o vg_name /dev/$part 2/dev/null;
open (PV_INFO, $cmd|);
unless (eof(PV_INFO)) {
-my @pv_data = split(/:/, PV_INFO);
-my $vg_name = $pv_data[1];
+ my $vg_name = PV_INFO;
+ chomp ($vg_name);
+ $vg_name = substr ($vg_name, 2);
# This partition will become part to the volume group $vg_name
-AR-
print DISK_FILE qq( lvm_group=$vg_name);
}
Hope that helps in the mean time. You can give it a try by applying
the attached patch to your installed system...
As for the kernel, si_prepareclient completed successfully for me on
Quantal. It's one release newer than what you were using, but I have no
reason to expect it to not work with that kernel either.
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
└─[$] lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 12.10
Release:12.10
Codename: quantal
┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
└─[$] uname -r
3.5.0-45-generic
Cheers, -Brian
On 2013-12-10, 05:02:10pm, Steven DuChene wrote:
Bryan:
Sorry I missed getting to SC2013
Did you ever get a chance to look at this Ubuntu 12.04 issue with
systemimager?
--
Steve
On 11/18/2013 07:27 AM, DuChene, Steven A wrote:
Brian:
Any updates yet on the issues I raised below with systemimager?
--
Steven DuChene
*From:*Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:br...@thefinleys.com]
*Sent:* Monday, November 04, 2013 8:35 PM
*To:* SISuite Users List
*Subject:* Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the report. I'll see if I can re-create it in the lab,
and update the code accordingly.
Thanks, -Brian
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Steven DuChene
steven.a.duch...@hp.com mailto:steven.a.duch...@hp.com wrote:
I am trying to capture the image of a system that is running Ubuntu
Precise 12.04LTS and when I run the si_prepareclient with the following
command line switches:
si_prepareclient --server 10.23.18.10 --my-modules
I get the following :
Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
Use of uninitialized value $leftovers in substitution (s///) at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 704.
Use of uninitialized value $leftovers in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 707.
Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
ERROR: unsupported kernel 3.5.0-23-generic!
The warnings or errors about Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199 is due to
the way parted is now returning multiple line of text output when
Re: [sisuite-users] 4 Debian packages Not Found
Hi Steven, Not dead, just busy. Steven, Mike -- I'll commit to looking into both issues tomorrow morning. -Brian On Jan 10, 2014 3:23 PM, Steven DuChene steven.a.duch...@hp.com wrote: On 01/09/2014 08:00 AM, Mike Bianchi wrote: Installing systemimager and systemconfigurator fails due to W: Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/d/diffutils/diff_2.8.1-11_amd64.deb 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/c/coreutils/fileutils_5.94-1_all.deb 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0.3-8_amd64.deb 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0.3-8_amd64.deb 404 Not Found Any suggestions? What version of Debian or Ubuntu are you installing this on? On Ubuntu 12.04 the dhcp packages are called isc-dhcp-server rather than dhcp3 and the diff utility dpkg is called diffutils rather than just diff. Perhaps you could alter the list of downloaded deb packages to correspond to the real package names available for your distribution. I tried to install the client pieces on a system a few months ago and while it all installed fine, the actual prepareclient step would not function on a Ubuntu 12.04LTS Precise system because the systemimager utilities would not support the 3.X.X kernels found on Ubuntu precise. I reported this but I have heard absolutely nothing from Bryan or any of the other developers as far as fix or a suggested work-around. With no fix forthcoming I have to abandon my plans for using systemimager and consider it a dead project. Too bad as it was a really cool tool. -- Steven DuChene -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
I'll be there. On my way now... On Nov 18, 2013 8:26 AM, DuChene, Steven A steven.a.duch...@hp.com wrote: Is anyone on this list going to be at SC2013 here in Denver? I am heading down there today. I would be interested in meeting up with other HPC people in attendance. My E-mail I will be able to check at the conference is tevend@yahoo.comor in the case of Brian I will also have my cell phone. -- Steven DuChene *From:* Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:br...@thefinleys.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 04, 2013 8:35 PM *To:* SISuite Users List *Subject:* Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager? Hi Steven, Thanks for the report. I'll see if I can re-create it in the lab, and update the code accordingly. Thanks, -Brian On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Steven DuChene steven.a.duch...@hp.com wrote: I am trying to capture the image of a system that is running Ubuntu Precise 12.04LTS and when I run the si_prepareclient with the following command line switches: si_prepareclient --server 10.23.18.10 --my-modules I get the following : Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199. Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199. Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199. Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199. Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199. Use of uninitialized value $leftovers in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 704. Use of uninitialized value $leftovers in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 707. Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199. Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199. ERROR: unsupported kernel 3.5.0-23-generic! The warnings or errors about Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199 is due to the way parted is now returning multiple line of text output when the --version option is passed. It seems that the perl code that is supposed to be parsing the stuff that is not able to handle that multi-line output to extract the version of the parted utility. However what concerns me most is the message back that says the 3.5.0-23-generic kernel is not supported. Is there any documentation available for systemimager that would show the necessary process steps to incorperate support for newer kernels? Any suggestions about any of this would be most appreciated. BTW, I have the following installed on the Ubuntu system: ii systemconfigurator 2.2.11-1 Unified Configuration API for Linux Installation ii systemimager-client 4.1.6 Utilities for creating an image and upgrading client machines ii systemimager-common 4.1.6 Utilities and libraries common to both the server and client ii systemimager-initrd-template-amd64 4.1.6 SystemImager initrd template for amd64 client nodes -- Steven DuChene -- Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[sisuite-users] Repo Relocation
All, I have started the process to re-locate the SystemImager code repository from SourceForge to GitHub. Code contributors -- the SourceForge SVN repository should now be treated as read-only, and I've modified the permissions accordingly. I'll send out a reply to this message when the re-location is complete (should be later today). Cheers, -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] Repo Relocation
It is done: https://github.com/finley/SystemImager On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.comwrote: All, I have started the process to re-locate the SystemImager code repository from SourceForge to GitHub. Code contributors -- the SourceForge SVN repository should now be treated as read-only, and I've modified the permissions accordingly. I'll send out a reply to this message when the re-location is complete (should be later today). Cheers, -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] RE : RE : new centos-6.3 RPMS
Olivier -- I've added you to github now too. Cheers, -Brian On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:01 AM, LAHAYE Olivier olivier.lah...@cea.frwrote: Hi, Brian, thanks for the svn access, it's cool now that I don't have to maintain tons of patches ;-) My github account is olahaye74. I've commited my modifications to the svn and tested a build and it worked :-) I should say, it built ;-) So now, as the version is 4.3.0 in the devel tree, the rpm version will be 4.3.0-0.x (4.3.0-1 when a release will be created). rpms available here http://olivier.lahaye1.free.fr/RPMS/noarch/ srpms available here http://olivier.lahaye1.free.fr/SRPMS/ Note that they should behave the same as v 4.2.0-0.91svn4568 as the current status is that I've commited the patch into the svn tree and updated the spec file to reflect that there is no more patches + minor modifications. Hopefully I did not miss anything in the process. :-) The i386initrd_template and i386boot-standard and currently being build, unfortunately, I'm on vaccation tonight and will only be back on january 7th, if the build process is not finished when I'll have to leave, I'll hybernate my VM and let the build finish later. Best regards, Olivier. -- Olivier LAHAYE CEA DRT/LIST/DCSI/DIR -- *De :* Brian Elliott Finley [br...@thefinleys.com] *Date d'envoi :* samedi 15 décembre 2012 18:49 *À :* sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Objet :* Re: [sisuite-users] RE : new centos-6.3 RPMS Contributors, I have added Olivier to the SystemImager project on SourceForge, but I'd like to add each of you who want to contribute to the SystemImager project on GitHub too, as that's where it will all be moving. If you don't have an account yet, no big -- just go to https://github.comand create one. Then send me an email with your account name, and I'll get you added. Thanks! -Brian On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:56 AM, LAHAYE Olivier olivier.lah...@cea.frwrote: Hi Brian, My sourceforge username is olahaye74 (Olivier LAHAYE) (74 is because there was plenty of olivier.lahaye in France ;-)) I'm very glad to participate. In the meantime, I must let you know that I'm not extremely skilled in perl/python and such. I've modified systemimager so it can deploy oscar on centos6. The RPMS I've released are ok on centos6, but I've discovered that they can't build on centos5. In fact, the build system (initrd) after compiling some package does complete the initrd by copying missing libs from the build host system. Unfortunately, this behaviour breaks things as we have some binaries linked with libs that are too far in versions to be compatible (missing simbols). What I want to say is that I'm a little bit afraid to make modifications that could break the whole stuff because my developper skills are not extreme (I'm sysadmin in 1st place). Also I've never participated in such a project and thus I'm not familiar with how such modifications can go to the svn. (and I don't want to break things) For example, I've had to upgrade a component, and to change the build script so it makes install instead of copying the resulting binaries as the new version uses libtool and the old copying method was copying the wrapper instead of the lib itself. This change had an impact to the centos5 compatibility. I mean, my modification let the thing build on centos6, but in the meantime, centos5 became incompatible... In the end, right now, my rpms cant be build on centos5, though, they can deploy any OS. This means that the deploy server must be centos6. Best resgards. -- Olivier LAHAYE CEA DRT/LIST/DCSI/DIR -- *De :* Brian Elliott Finley [br...@thefinleys.com] *Date d'envoi :* vendredi 23 novembre 2012 19:10 *À :* sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Objet :* Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS Sun, Olivier, Please send me your SourceForge usernames. I appreciate your efforts, and would like to grant you both commit privileges to the SVN repository, so that you can commit your patches directly. Bas, Franck, the same goes for you two if you wish. Regarding a fork, that is generally necessary because one does not have the ability to modify the upstream original. I will happily grant you this access, as I think it would be better for the community to improve the main code stream rather than to have a fork. I know that SALI has special circumstances that made a fork appropriate for them, at least previously, but I would also be happy to allow that fork to merge into the mainstream if SALI considers that desirable. Lastly, with regard to SystemConfigurator, it is no longer being maintained, and we should work to eliminate our dependency on it. With modern Linuxes this should be very feasible through the use of SystemImager postscripts for setup of boot manager (Grub) and networking (if desirable). All -- feel free
Re: [sisuite-users] RE : new centos-6.3 RPMS
Contributors, I have added Olivier to the SystemImager project on SourceForge, but I'd like to add each of you who want to contribute to the SystemImager project on GitHub too, as that's where it will all be moving. If you don't have an account yet, no big -- just go to https://github.comand create one. Then send me an email with your account name, and I'll get you added. Thanks! -Brian On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:56 AM, LAHAYE Olivier olivier.lah...@cea.frwrote: Hi Brian, My sourceforge username is olahaye74 (Olivier LAHAYE) (74 is because there was plenty of olivier.lahaye in France ;-)) I'm very glad to participate. In the meantime, I must let you know that I'm not extremely skilled in perl/python and such. I've modified systemimager so it can deploy oscar on centos6. The RPMS I've released are ok on centos6, but I've discovered that they can't build on centos5. In fact, the build system (initrd) after compiling some package does complete the initrd by copying missing libs from the build host system. Unfortunately, this behaviour breaks things as we have some binaries linked with libs that are too far in versions to be compatible (missing simbols). What I want to say is that I'm a little bit afraid to make modifications that could break the whole stuff because my developper skills are not extreme (I'm sysadmin in 1st place). Also I've never participated in such a project and thus I'm not familiar with how such modifications can go to the svn. (and I don't want to break things) For example, I've had to upgrade a component, and to change the build script so it makes install instead of copying the resulting binaries as the new version uses libtool and the old copying method was copying the wrapper instead of the lib itself. This change had an impact to the centos5 compatibility. I mean, my modification let the thing build on centos6, but in the meantime, centos5 became incompatible... In the end, right now, my rpms cant be build on centos5, though, they can deploy any OS. This means that the deploy server must be centos6. Best resgards. -- Olivier LAHAYE CEA DRT/LIST/DCSI/DIR -- *De :* Brian Elliott Finley [br...@thefinleys.com] *Date d'envoi :* vendredi 23 novembre 2012 19:10 *À :* sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Objet :* Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS Sun, Olivier, Please send me your SourceForge usernames. I appreciate your efforts, and would like to grant you both commit privileges to the SVN repository, so that you can commit your patches directly. Bas, Franck, the same goes for you two if you wish. Regarding a fork, that is generally necessary because one does not have the ability to modify the upstream original. I will happily grant you this access, as I think it would be better for the community to improve the main code stream rather than to have a fork. I know that SALI has special circumstances that made a fork appropriate for them, at least previously, but I would also be happy to allow that fork to merge into the mainstream if SALI considers that desirable. Lastly, with regard to SystemConfigurator, it is no longer being maintained, and we should work to eliminate our dependency on it. With modern Linuxes this should be very feasible through the use of SystemImager postscripts for setup of boot manager (Grub) and networking (if desirable). All -- feel free to call me if you have any questions. Just bear in mind that I'm generally somewhere in GMT-5 through GMT-7. ;-) If unsure, start with a text message, or leave a voice mail if I don't answer right away, but I'll be glad to discuss. My mobile is 469.444.0167. Cheers, -Brian On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jing CDL Sun sj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Hi Olivier, Thanks for this sharing! Have you cloning Centos-6.3 with these rpms successfully? I tried to use them for redhat6.3 cloning, bug failed... -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite
Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS
Dennis, That sounds like a good path forward. Please send me github account names for you and Bas, and I'll add you to the SystemImager project. Cheers, -Brian On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Dennis Stam dennis.s...@sara.nl wrote: Hi Brian, Great news to make SALI into SystemImager. It's better for both teams to join forces because we want to accomplish the same goal. On 27 nov. 2012, at 18:10, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com mailto:br...@thefinleys.com wrote: I've created the initial repo. Bas -- what do you need from me to move the code from SourceForce to github? Currently we started the development of version 1.6 and it's far from finished. So as initial import to the git we can use the branch 1.5. And probally the easiest way to migrate our source code to the SystemImager git repo is to fork your repo. From there we can import our branch 1.5 to the forked git repo. And finally send you a pull request? Regards, Dennis https://github.com/finley/systemimager Thanks! On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.commailto:br...@thefinleys.com wrote: I think a move to github would be a fine idea. As for the SystemConfigurator functionality, I'd like to use the SystemImager post-script functionality. It will allow us to - include simple scripts upstream, that could be used as-is for simple and common cases - these simple scripts could be easily customized by site admins, without having to know SystemImager internals - a simple script could be used to invoke puppet, chef, or SSM (Simple State Manager - http://download.systemimager.org/pub/ssm/README) Cheers, -Brian On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Bas van der Vlies b...@sara.nlmailto: b...@sara.nl wrote: Brian, The SALI vork was nescessary to support modern hardware. Your are right you can better have one source. SALI has implemented a new kernel/initrd and some shell functions, e.g. one for easy disk partition. We also replaced the system imager-server software. Currently we do not have a tool like systemconfigurator or automatically generate installation scripts. So we can definitely benefit from co-operation. My thought for replacing systemconfigurator are with shell commands or a system maintenance tool like CFengine, puppet , chef ,…. Can we move the code to github.comhttp://github.com/http://github.com http://github.com/. I think it easier to contribute and better suited if more people are involved. regards On 23 nov. 2012, at 19:10, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com mailto:br...@thefinleys.commailto:br...@thefinleys.commailto: br...@thefinleys.com wrote: Sun, Olivier, Please send me your SourceForge usernames. I appreciate your efforts, and would like to grant you both commit privileges to the SVN repository, so that you can commit your patches directly. Bas, Franck, the same goes for you two if you wish. Regarding a fork, that is generally necessary because one does not have the ability to modify the upstream original. I will happily grant you this access, as I think it would be better for the community to improve the main code stream rather than to have a fork. I know that SALI has special circumstances that made a fork appropriate for them, at least previously, but I would also be happy to allow that fork to merge into the mainstream if SALI considers that desirable. Lastly, with regard to SystemConfigurator, it is no longer being maintained, and we should work to eliminate our dependency on it. With modern Linuxes this should be very feasible through the use of SystemImager postscripts for setup of boot manager (Grub) and networking (if desirable). All -- feel free to call me if you have any questions. Just bear in mind that I'm generally somewhere in GMT-5 through GMT-7. ;-) If unsure, start with a text message, or leave a voice mail if I don't answer right away, but I'll be glad to discuss. My mobile is 469.444.0167tel:469.444.0167. Cheers, -Brian On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jing CDL Sun sj...@cn.ibm.commailto: sj...@cn.ibm.commailto:sj...@cn.ibm.commailto:sj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Hi Olivier, Thanks for this sharing! Have you cloning Centos-6.3 with these rpms successfully? I tried to use them for redhat6.3 cloning, bug failed... -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https
Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS
I would be happy to move the project to github. We've actually contemplated that before. Would you be interested in helping to move the code repository to github? On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:01 PM, E-Blokos in...@e-blokos.com wrote: ** Hi Brian, Maybe Git Hub would be better ? If you consider that systemconfigurator can be zapped for new versions so ok, would be happy to help in perl. username: madovsky Cheers Franck - Original Message - *From:* Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com *To:* sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Friday, November 23, 2012 1:10 PM *Subject:* Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS Sun, Olivier, Please send me your SourceForge usernames. I appreciate your efforts, and would like to grant you both commit privileges to the SVN repository, so that you can commit your patches directly. Bas, Franck, the same goes for you two if you wish. Regarding a fork, that is generally necessary because one does not have the ability to modify the upstream original. I will happily grant you this access, as I think it would be better for the community to improve the main code stream rather than to have a fork. I know that SALI has special circumstances that made a fork appropriate for them, at least previously, but I would also be happy to allow that fork to merge into the mainstream if SALI considers that desirable. Lastly, with regard to SystemConfigurator, it is no longer being maintained, and we should work to eliminate our dependency on it. With modern Linuxes this should be very feasible through the use of SystemImager postscripts for setup of boot manager (Grub) and networking (if desirable). All -- feel free to call me if you have any questions. Just bear in mind that I'm generally somewhere in GMT-5 through GMT-7. ;-) If unsure, start with a text message, or leave a voice mail if I don't answer right away, but I'll be glad to discuss. My mobile is 469.444.0167. Cheers, -Brian On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jing CDL Sun sj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Hi Olivier, Thanks for this sharing! Have you cloning Centos-6.3 with these rpms successfully? I tried to use them for redhat6.3 cloning, bug failed... -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov -- ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS
I think a move to github would be a fine idea. As for the SystemConfigurator functionality, I'd like to use theSystemImager post-script functionality. It will allow us to - include simple scripts upstream, that could be used as-is for simple and common cases - these simple scripts could be easily customized by site admins, without having to know SystemImager internals - a simple script could be used to invoke puppet, chef, or SSM (Simple State Manager - http://download.systemimager.org/pub/ssm/README) Cheers, -Brian On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Bas van der Vlies b...@sara.nl wrote: Brian, The SALI vork was nescessary to support modern hardware. Your are right you can better have one source. SALI has implemented a new kernel/initrd and some shell functions, e.g. one for easy disk partition. We also replaced the system imager-server software. Currently we do not have a tool like systemconfigurator or automatically generate installation scripts. So we can definitely benefit from co-operation. My thought for replacing systemconfigurator are with shell commands or a system maintenance tool like CFengine, puppet , chef ,…. Can we move the code to github.comhttp://github.com. I think it easier to contribute and better suited if more people are involved. regards On 23 nov. 2012, at 19:10, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com mailto:br...@thefinleys.com wrote: Sun, Olivier, Please send me your SourceForge usernames. I appreciate your efforts, and would like to grant you both commit privileges to the SVN repository, so that you can commit your patches directly. Bas, Franck, the same goes for you two if you wish. Regarding a fork, that is generally necessary because one does not have the ability to modify the upstream original. I will happily grant you this access, as I think it would be better for the community to improve the main code stream rather than to have a fork. I know that SALI has special circumstances that made a fork appropriate for them, at least previously, but I would also be happy to allow that fork to merge into the mainstream if SALI considers that desirable. Lastly, with regard to SystemConfigurator, it is no longer being maintained, and we should work to eliminate our dependency on it. With modern Linuxes this should be very feasible through the use of SystemImager postscripts for setup of boot manager (Grub) and networking (if desirable). All -- feel free to call me if you have any questions. Just bear in mind that I'm generally somewhere in GMT-5 through GMT-7. ;-) If unsure, start with a text message, or leave a voice mail if I don't answer right away, but I'll be glad to discuss. My mobile is 469.444.0167. Cheers, -Brian On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jing CDL Sun sj...@cn.ibm.commailto: sj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Hi Olivier, Thanks for this sharing! Have you cloning Centos-6.3 with these rpms successfully? I tried to use them for redhat6.3 cloning, bug failed... -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Bas van der Vlies mail: b...@sara.nlmailto:b...@sara.nl SARA - Academic Computing Services , Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167
Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS
I've created the initial repo. Bas -- what do you need from me to move the code from SourceForce to github? https://github.com/finley/systemimager Thanks! On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote: I think a move to github would be a fine idea. As for the SystemConfigurator functionality, I'd like to use theSystemImager post-script functionality. It will allow us to - include simple scripts upstream, that could be used as-is for simple and common cases - these simple scripts could be easily customized by site admins, without having to know SystemImager internals - a simple script could be used to invoke puppet, chef, or SSM (Simple State Manager - http://download.systemimager.org/pub/ssm/README) Cheers, -Brian On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Bas van der Vlies b...@sara.nl wrote: Brian, The SALI vork was nescessary to support modern hardware. Your are right you can better have one source. SALI has implemented a new kernel/initrd and some shell functions, e.g. one for easy disk partition. We also replaced the system imager-server software. Currently we do not have a tool like systemconfigurator or automatically generate installation scripts. So we can definitely benefit from co-operation. My thought for replacing systemconfigurator are with shell commands or a system maintenance tool like CFengine, puppet , chef ,…. Can we move the code to github.comhttp://github.com. I think it easier to contribute and better suited if more people are involved. regards On 23 nov. 2012, at 19:10, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com mailto:br...@thefinleys.com wrote: Sun, Olivier, Please send me your SourceForge usernames. I appreciate your efforts, and would like to grant you both commit privileges to the SVN repository, so that you can commit your patches directly. Bas, Franck, the same goes for you two if you wish. Regarding a fork, that is generally necessary because one does not have the ability to modify the upstream original. I will happily grant you this access, as I think it would be better for the community to improve the main code stream rather than to have a fork. I know that SALI has special circumstances that made a fork appropriate for them, at least previously, but I would also be happy to allow that fork to merge into the mainstream if SALI considers that desirable. Lastly, with regard to SystemConfigurator, it is no longer being maintained, and we should work to eliminate our dependency on it. With modern Linuxes this should be very feasible through the use of SystemImager postscripts for setup of boot manager (Grub) and networking (if desirable). All -- feel free to call me if you have any questions. Just bear in mind that I'm generally somewhere in GMT-5 through GMT-7. ;-) If unsure, start with a text message, or leave a voice mail if I don't answer right away, but I'll be glad to discuss. My mobile is 469.444.0167. Cheers, -Brian On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jing CDL Sun sj...@cn.ibm.commailto: sj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Hi Olivier, Thanks for this sharing! Have you cloning Centos-6.3 with these rpms successfully? I tried to use them for redhat6.3 cloning, bug failed... -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov___ sisuite-usershttp://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov___sisuite-usersmailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Bas van der Vlies mail: b...@sara.nlmailto:b...@sara.nl SARA - Academic Computing Services , Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day
Re: [sisuite-users] new centos-6.3 RPMS
Sun, Olivier, Please send me your SourceForge usernames. I appreciate your efforts, and would like to grant you both commit privileges to the SVN repository, so that you can commit your patches directly. Bas, Franck, the same goes for you two if you wish. Regarding a fork, that is generally necessary because one does not have the ability to modify the upstream original. I will happily grant you this access, as I think it would be better for the community to improve the main code stream rather than to have a fork. I know that SALI has special circumstances that made a fork appropriate for them, at least previously, but I would also be happy to allow that fork to merge into the mainstream if SALI considers that desirable. Lastly, with regard to SystemConfigurator, it is no longer being maintained, and we should work to eliminate our dependency on it. With modern Linuxes this should be very feasible through the use of SystemImager postscripts for setup of boot manager (Grub) and networking (if desirable). All -- feel free to call me if you have any questions. Just bear in mind that I'm generally somewhere in GMT-5 through GMT-7. ;-) If unsure, start with a text message, or leave a voice mail if I don't answer right away, but I'll be glad to discuss. My mobile is 469.444.0167. Cheers, -Brian On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jing CDL Sun sj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Hi Olivier, Thanks for this sharing! Have you cloning Centos-6.3 with these rpms successfully? I tried to use them for redhat6.3 cloning, bug failed... -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] [CI Ticketing System #18923] Please reset hung server: systemimager.ci.uchicago.edu
All: The SystemImager project team has decided to move the project back to SourceForge: http://systemimager.sourceforge.net/ Back when we first moved it off of SourceForge, there were features we required that SourceForge did not provide -- things like SVN and a Wiki. Those capabilities (and others) are now available, and we want to leverage the services that go along with SourceForge, such as not having to make a request for someone to reset a hung server. ;-) The SVN repository has been restored ( http://systemimager.svn.sourceforge.net/), and an older version of the website has been put up temporarily. Bear with us as we get all of the other services worked out, including proper vhost behavior, etc. Soon all of the hostnames and URLs should be working properly again. Cheers, -Brian On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Brian Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote: FYI... Original Message Subject: Re: [CI Ticketing System #18923] Please reset hung server: systemimager.ci.uchicago.edu Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:56:29 -0500 From: Brian Finley br...@thefinleys.com To: supp...@ci.uchicago.edu CC: Andrea Righi righi.and...@gmail.com, Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org Thank you. I am currently planning to re-locate this content, so I may have just moved up my time-frame. ;-) I'll come by to retrieve the machine in April, and will get hold of you in advance to let you know when I'll be on-site. Thanks, David -Brian On 03/23/2012 03:44 PM, David Forero wrote: On Fri Mar 23 15:12:46 2012, br...@thefinleys.com wrote: It's still non-responsive: % ping -c 1 systemimager.ci.uchicago.edu PING systemimager.ci.uchicago.edu (128.135.125.209) 56(84) bytes of data. --- systemimager.ci.uchicago.edu ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1ms Are any of the lights on? Can you try disconnecting, then re- connecting the power? Yes. I tried all those things. As I said, the machine displayed nothing on the console. I suspect something serious may have happened to the machine. -- David Forero System Administrator Computation Institute University of Chicago 773-834-4102 -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] systemimager 4.1.99 debian packages
Yann, Please send me a copy of the patches. I'd like to take a look. Have you tried them on recent Ubuntu builds also? Thanks, -Brian On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM, yann aubert yann.aub...@ipno.in2p3.fr wrote: We are using systemimager in order to install nodes on Agata (http://www-win.gsi.de/agata/) DAQ (Data AcQuisition). Nodes are going to be changed and the old installation of systemimager doesn't do the job anymore. The install server and the nodes are using debian 6.0 (Squeeze). I decided to try to generate debian packages from systemimager 4.1.99. This was possible only after several patches. But, now the packages are here. They are far from perfect, but they are quite functional. Is there some people interested? Where do I put the packages? Where do I put the patches? Yann Aubert -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.444.0167 -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] patch for si_rmimage: remove UYOK boot files
Thanks, Thomas. Applied to trunk. -Brian On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Zeiser thomas.zei...@rrze.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Hi Brian, please find attached an other patch. si_rmimage currently does not remove the UYOK boot files from (usually) /usr/share/systemimager/boot/ARCH/IMAGE. The patch will try to remove them, too. Path and architecutre are determined as in other systemimager tools/libs. Best, thomas -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 469.667.2110 -- 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] fix for cciss/cXdYpZ detection in Server.pm
Thomas,
I have applied this to trunk. It has not yet been applied to the current
stable release -- I'll leave that up to Bernard.
Thanks, -Brian
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Brian E Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote:
Thanks, Thomas!
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-Original Message-
From: Thomas Zeiser thomas.zei...@rrze.uni-erlangen.de
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:29:21
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: [sisuite-users] fix for cciss/cXdYpZ detection in Server.pm
Hi,
here is a small bug fix to get HP's cciss/cXdYpZ correctly detected in
Server.pm (relativ to 4.1.99.svn4556_bli-1):
--- /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm.orig 2011-07-02
00:23:23.0 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm 2011-07-02
00:22:37.0 +0200
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@
# Translate partitions in disk variables (disk autodetection
compliant).
foreach (@md_devices) {
-m/^(.*)(p?\d+)$/;
+m/^(.*[^p])(p?\d+)$/;
my $disk = $1;
my $part_no = $2;
$devices .= '${' . $DISK_by_disk{$disk} . '}' . $part_no . ' ';
Perl tries ot match as much as possible; thus, the p would always be in
the
disk and never in the part_no ... which is bad as $DISK_by_disk{$disk}
won't
find anything. Thus, just do not allow the disk to end in p.
Best,
thomas
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Re: [sisuite-users] rhel6 - ext4 support
I don't have a completion date as an ETA, but I'm working on it this week and next... -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: +1.630.447.9108 -Original Message- From: david.livingst...@cn.ca Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:07:10 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [sisuite-users] rhel6 - ext4 support -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] No space left on device
Taking a closer look, here are some thoughts that might help: Anything mounted under /a/ on an auto-install client is the auto-install client's own local disk, mounted in a temporary location while files are copied to it. If /usr, /usr/src, or /usr/src/kernel is a separate file system on the golden client, then it looks like it's filling up (probably just due to size, but much less likely, it could be due to excessive number of files - running out of inodes). There are multiple ways to resolve this. The easiest way to resolve it (the hack) is to remove some of the files from the /usr/src/kernel/ directory in the image on the imageserver to free up some space, then try the auto-install again. The less-hacky way to do it is to modify the /etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.conf file to increase the size of that partition. If you change it on the golden client, then run si_getimage again after changing it. If you change it in the already captured image, then run si_mkautoinstallscript again. Either of these methods will result in a fresh autoinstall script that will create a larger partition for your /usr/src/kernel data. Hope that helps, -Brian On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:31 AM, muhammed navas navasonl...@gmail.comwrote: where in system imager server or client ? in server i got this out put [r...@localhost ~]# df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda19773056 257099 95159573% / tmpfs 218214 7 2182071% /dev/shm client side it says -i not suported On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote: You might be out of inodes? Try a df -i. -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: +1.630.447.9108 -Original Message- From: muhammed navas navasonl...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:05:43 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [sisuite-users] No space left on device -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Thanks Regards, Muhammed Navas Linux administrator Apara Pvt Ltd, Bangalore www.apara.com +91-9886313459 -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 1
Thanks for the suggestion, Chuck! Done. reCAPTCHA installed. :-) -Brian On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Chuck Ritter cfr...@psu.edu wrote: From: Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org Are you referring to moderator approval for new accounts creation and/or wiki edits? I'm afraid either way may impose additional overhead that might hinder active community involvement... unless of course if captcha does not do its job well... does anybody know in practice whether captcha is sufficient in cutting down spam for a small MediaWIki installation? I can recommend reCAPTCHA for general form spam. I'm sure it works fine with wiki spam: http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/mediawiki.html It actively maintained code and well designed. It even has vision impaired support. It has a wikimedia plugin. -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org
Bernard, How many valid contributors to content on the wiki do we actually have? Would the use of a captcha plugin do the trick? -Brian On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org wrote: Hi all: Lately our Wiki page http://wiki.systemimager.org has been getting a lot of spam. I am reaching out to the community to see if anybody has experience in fighting spam on MediaWiki installations and also to see if anybody would like to volunteer to be moderator for the Wiki and to undo spam edits on sight. Please feel free to reply back to this thread and/or email me off list. Thanks! Bernard -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] Cluster registry: 16 GB limit
Heh. Thanks, Patrick. :-) -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: +1.630.447.9108 -Original Message- From: Patrick Nolan patrick.no...@stanford.edu Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:44:55 To: sisuite-us...@lists.sf.net Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [sisuite-users] Cluster registry: 16 GB limit I tried to register our new cluster on your map. It refused to take it because we have more than 16 GB per node. In fact, we have 128 GB per node. You need to catch up. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] Cluster registry: 16 GB limit
Patrick, Please try again. Try not to overwhelm the new 1024GB per node limit. ;-) Cheers, -Brian On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote: Heh. Thanks, Patrick. :-) -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: +1.630.447.9108 -Original Message- From: Patrick Nolan patrick.no...@stanford.edu Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:44:55 To: sisuite-us...@lists.sf.net Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [sisuite-users] Cluster registry: 16 GB limit I tried to register our new cluster on your map. It refused to take it because we have more than 16 GB per node. In fact, we have 128 GB per node. You need to catch up. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] How can I see the System Imager error message?
Try Shift+PgUp. Hope that helps. -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: +1.630.447.9108 -Original Message- From: Patrick Nolan patrick.no...@stanford.edu Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:45:40 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [sisuite-users] How can I see the System Imager error message? I've been banging my head against a problem installing OSCAR for a couple of weeks. The network boot phase seems to be crashing because of a System Imager error, but I can't tell what type of error. The net boot begins OK and runs a downloaded kernel. Then a lot of stuff scrolls by quickly. It ends with a page which begins, Your autoinstall has failed. You can use the shell prompt to try and see what happened. This is followed by a page of advice, which causes all previous messages to scroll off the console. Of course, there is no shell prompt, nor do the alt-f1 or other keys do anything. It's just hung. I tried capturing the boot messages by echoing them out a serial port. (The AMI BIOS allows that.) It works up to a point, but the output quits when the kernel boots. What can I do? -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?
Tristam, Are you using ext4? If so, I bet that's why. I'm in the process of adding support for ext4 and grub2, but its not there yet. Your partition layout should be fine. Try using ext3. You can even take an image from a machine installed with ext4 and have SI autoinstall it as ext3. Just change all instances of ext4 to ext3 in /etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.conf on your golden client before running si_getimage. Finally, for now, try using Grub v1. Here's a HOWTO for converting from Grub2 to Grub1 (haven't tried it myself yet): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Uninstalling%20GRUB%202 Hope that helps, -Brian On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Tristam MacDonald swiftco...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote: What you're doing should prevent tmpfs staging. And yes -- it is off by default. Can you provide the output of df -k from the console of a failed autoinstall client? Thanks, -Brian The output from df -k, which seems to indicate that it never mounted the disk partitions: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 1028604 1015228 13376 99% / /dev/root 15540 15540 0 100% /old_root tmpfs 1028604 1015228 13376 99% / devpts 1028604 164 1028440 0% /dev/pts tmpfs 1028604 1015228 13376 99% /dev/.static/dev udev 1028604 164 1028440 0% /dev Also the output of fdisk -l, which indicates that it did create all of the partitions successfully: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 1600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 608 4881787 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/sda2 * 608 3040 19530273+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 3040 4255 9765625 83 Linux /dev/sda4 4256 19452 122069902+ 83 Linux My partition layout is somewhat unorthodox: 5GB swap, followed by 20GB /, 10 GB /tmp and 115 GB /data. All of the above except for / are empty, but could the swap-first layout be confusing things? Thanks, -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?
What you're doing should prevent tmpfs staging. And yes -- it is off by default. Can you provide the output of df -k from the console of a failed autoinstall client? Thanks, -Brian On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Tristam MacDonald swiftco...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am setting up our university lab machines to image via system imager. The image is around 7 GB, and on every attempt to install the image, I end up running out of RAM (2 GB) on each client machine. I am running system imager 4.1.6, from the apt repository on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. I am using the default rsync mechanism, and using netboot to initiate installs. I have set option-144 to n in my dhcp server (which is separate to my image server), and have passed TMPFS_STAGING=no as a kernel boot parameter, either of which I believe should disable tmpfs staging. I also believe that tmpfs staging is meant to be disabled by default, though the docs are somewhat fuzzy on that particular issue. Is there anything I am likely to have done wrong which is causing tmpfs to be on in all cases? And anything I can do to remedy this? I am happy to post configuration/logs/etc. if it will be of any help. Thanks, -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] Inconsistent units = Shrinking partition sizes
Thanks, Tyler.
I'll look into making this change in the next major release.
Cheers,
Brian
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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:45:30
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Subject: [sisuite-users] Inconsistent units = Shrinking partition sizes
Hi,
I'm using the SystemImager 4.0.2 stable release on an HP ProLiant DL380
G5 server with CentOS 5.4. It's a 32 bit OS on an i686 architecture.
I've noticed an issue where disk partitions get 5% smaller each time I
do a system restore because of an incompatibility in the units that are
used during the image and during the restore.
I dug into the code a little bit and found that the partition sizes are
recorded as MB = 2^20 Bytes = 1,048,576 bytes during the image using a
command like sfdisk -l -uM /dev/mydiskname. Then those sizes are
passed to parted during the restore when creating the partitions.
The issue is that parted units are in MB = 1,000,000 bytes. So the
result is that all partitions except the last one on the disk shrink
by 5% and the final partition is assigned the remaining extra space.
My solution is to comment out lines 957, 958 and 959 of
/usr/sbin/si_prepareclient. ie: To comment out these lines:
if($arch eq i386) {
$preferred_tool = 'sfdisk';
}
This forces SystemImager to use parted when reading disk sizes during
imaging on the x86 architecture. I can see a difference in the
partition sizes listed in /etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.conf
before and after making the change listed above. So, there seems to be
a difference in the partition sizes when they are read using parted and
when they're read using sfdisk.
Has anyone else seen this issue? Is there a recommended workaround?
Thanks,
Tyler
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Re: [sisuite-users] grub2 support
I started the work tonight to add support for grub2. Cheers, -Brian On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, RParr rp...@temporalarts.com wrote: Is there any plans or ongoing work to support grub2? I have been planning on migrating a bunch of workstation clients I have running Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 10.04 BUT Ubuntu 10.04 uses grub2. If we have to fix this ourselves, can some one provide any guidance as to where to concentrate our efforts? Thanks R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts On 04/24/2010 07:10 AM, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Tommy, I'm afraid grub2 is not supported yet. If you end up making code changes to support it, please let us know! -- Brian Elliott Finley 630.447.9108 On Apr 21, 2010 2:11 PM, Tommy Butler a...@tommybutler.me mailto:a...@tommybutler.me wrote: Yesterday I tried to install a golden image of a ubuntu 5.10 server -- which uses grub2 as the boot loader. It failed. Failure continued time after time despite any tweaks I attempted to make in the installer script, the golden image fstab and grub.cfg (yes, grub.cfg, NOT grub.conf which was referenced in the auto-generated install script source code). Is grub2 not supported? -- ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] grub2 support
Tommy, I'm afraid grub2 is not supported yet. If you end up making code changes to support it, please let us know! -- Brian Elliott Finley 630.447.9108 On Apr 21, 2010 2:11 PM, Tommy Butler a...@tommybutler.me wrote: Yesterday I tried to install a golden image of a ubuntu 5.10 server -- which uses grub2 as the boot loader. It failed. Failure continued time after time despite any tweaks I attempted to make in the installer script, the golden image fstab and grub.cfg (yes, grub.cfg, NOT grub.conf which was referenced in the auto-generated install script source code). Is grub2 not supported? -- Tommy, an otherwise happy systemimager user. -- ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] rsync problems
Try raising the number of inodes in the tmpfs filesystem. If you have lots of files, you could be using up all the the inodes and filling up the filesystem, even if you are not copying over lots of data. There's another SI append parameter to specify that: tmpfs_nr_inodes. Here are all the tmpfs options available that you can pass to SI: tmpfs_size tmpfs_nr_blocks tmpfs_nr_inodes tmpfs_mode Cheers, -Brian On Mar 8, 2010 11:21 AM, Alexander James Spence [axs] a...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Hi all, I have a Dell DT520 that I am trying to image. There is 1G of RAM, each time it complains that tmpfs has run out of space when transferring the file list, any clues where to start to fix this problem? This is the latest set of values on the APPEND list, I have tried a multitude of variations. APPEND initrd=/i386/standard/initrd.img root=/dev/ram ramdisk_blocksize=1024 ramdisk_size=43000 tmpfs_size=900M Regards, Sandy Spence Department of Computer Science Aberystwyth University Penglais Campus Llandinam Building Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DB Tel: 01970-622433 Fax: 01970-628536 -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] illegal Opcode RED SCREEN
NFS mounts are skipped. SAN disks (presented to the system you are imaging) just show up as normal hard disks, and are considered valid targets. To prevent SAN disks from being manipulated by SI, you can a) unplug the fibre, b) temporarily un-share the volume (at the Storage or storage switch level), c) use UYOK and omit the driver for your SAN cards, or d) modify the autoinstallscript.conf file to omit the SAN disks (requires that you know which order the SAN disks will be presented to the OS). Hope that helps, -Brian On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, venkatesh venigalla venkatesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When I plugged a console up to Server(HP ProLiant DL 585 G5), I found it has the RSoD-Red Screen of Death. The error code is listed below and from what I see on the internet there was a problem with hp Pseries smart array controllers and the DL series servers. I did reset all the hardware and run one pass of the diagnostics with no errors found. I just finished loading all the firmware updates and that did not resolve the problem. I need help on System Imager our understanding was that NFS and SAN disks are not imaged, but we just found out that it does. So what we need to findout is someway to configure SI so that it will skip all SAN images. Error: Console Reads: RED SCREEN illegal opcode EAX=7CFE EBX=7C00 ECX=0007 EDX=0180 EBP=FBFA ESI=07BE EDI=0800 DS= ES= FS= GS=0004 CS:EIP=:835A SS:ESP=1000:B000 EFLAGS=286 -- *** Thanks. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] si_prepareclient error: I couldn't identify your kernel file. Please try to use --kernel option on SLES11
Excellent!
Thanks,
Brian
On Jan 7, 2010 10:58 AM, Dr. Holger Obermaier holger.oberma...@kit.edu
wrote:
Hello,
when using si_prepareclient with SLES 11 you get an error message like these
{{{
si_prepareclient --server ic9n998 -y
I couldn't identify your kernel file. Please try to use --kernel option.
}}}
This is caused by a kernel string (2.6.27.29-0.1-default (ge...@buildhost)
#1
SMP 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200) which is not matched by the regex in
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm. I wrote a patch
which matches all the old kernel strings and also the new one (see
attachement).
After patching /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm
{{{
patch /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm.patch
}}}
the error is gone
Greetings Holger Obermaier
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Re: [sisuite-users] Manual configuration patch
Thanks, Judd, This looks very useful. -Brian Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 -Original Message- From: Judd Kennedy jkenn...@neoninc.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:15:48 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [sisuite-users] Manual configuration patch -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] systemimager.org
Mark, Here is an alternate location for the components until the site comes back: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=26552510.2290271234631886466.JavaMail.root%40zimbra You can either change the URL in the make file(s), or download each tarball that it complains it needs into /usr/src/. It will then find them on the next go-round. Cheers, -Brian Mark Monty Montague wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build systemimager, and finding it's having trouble downloading a lot of components because systemimager.org is down. I was just wondering if there is an ETA for the site to be back up? Or, alternatively, if there is an easy way to make make deb use a mirror or something... thanks, and thanks for creating the program and maintaining the website, - M -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] SystemImager.org Server Dead
All, I'd like to say thanks to each of you who made an offer of replacement hardware. I have chosen to accept the offer from Jeff Johnson jeff.john...@aeoncomputing.com. Jeff says a new server will be on it's way to us as early as Friday. Soon as it's received, we'll prep it and get it installed in the Computation Institute data center at The University of Chicago. Thanks to Ti Leggett at the Computation Institute for accommodating our server in the CI data center. And thanks again to Jeff and his company for the new server! Cheers, -Brian On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.comwrote: All, Many of you have noticed that our server died. We've tried to revive it a couple of times, but that only lasts a few days, then it dies again. That said, we are in the process of selecting new hardware to replace the dead server that hosts the systemimager.org site. I think we've identified a box that will work for now, but it may still not be a long term solution, as it's already pretty old. It's a single 800Mhz x86 CPU with 750MB memory and twin system disks for mirroring. If you would be interested in donating a better 1U x86 or x86_64 box for this purpose, that might serve us well into the future, we would be happy to include Thanks to $your_company for providing the server that runs this site! on the main page to show our appreciation. If you are interested, please contact me directly. In the mean time, you can find packages and source code here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager/ Cheers! -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[sisuite-users] SystemImager.org Server Dead
All, Many of you have noticed that our server died. We've tried to revive it a couple of times, but that only lasts a few days, then it dies again. That said, we are in the process of selecting new hardware to replace the dead server that hosts the systemimager.org site. I think we've identified a box that will work for now, but it may still not be a long term solution, as it's already pretty old. It's a single 800Mhz x86 CPU with 750MB memory and twin system disks for mirroring. If you would be interested in donating a better 1U x86 or x86_64 box for this purpose, that might serve us well into the future, we would be happy to include Thanks to $your_company for providing the server that runs this site! on the main page to show our appreciation. If you are interested, please contact me directly. In the mean time, you can find packages and source code here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager/ Cheers! -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] wiki permissions
Sounds good. -Brian Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Andrea Righi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:40:32 To:sisuite-dev sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Brian Elliott Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED], sisuite-users sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: wiki permissions Hi all, due to spam problems on wiki.systemimager.org (hey! it's a pain to manually remove spam day by day! :-)), I've changed the wiki users permissions: now only registered users with a validated e-mail address are allowed to edit and create pages. If you find any problem feel free to email to the list. Best regards, -Andrea - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] [systemimager-commits] Manufacturing Setup With Multiple Images
Thus spake Carl J Richell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian - This is precisely what I needed. We are now pre-manufacturing with SystemImager. Excellent! The more I use the software the more I like - you guys have done great work. And thanks. I have two more questions. During pxe boot there is a 1 minute pause at get_host_name_from_dns. We don't use that functionality - can it be turned off? Yes. You have two simple options, either of which will work fine: * Have a hosts file (/etc/hosts style) in the /var/lib/systemimager/scripts directory that has an entry for each host/ip combo that you'll be using. * Set HOSTNAME as a kernel append parameter in your PXE boot config. For dynamic partitioning I have set the primary partition / at 95% and the remaining amount for swap. This is adequate but is there a way to determine the amount of memory in a machine and base the swap off of that - then allocate the remaining space to the root partition? Not currently, but you can certainly hack the autoinstall script if you like. If you want to attempt this, consider making your changes to /etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.template, so that your changes will take effect every time a new autoinstall script is generated, or an old one is updated. Cheers, -Brian Thanks again, Carl On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 21:24 -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Carl, Images can be specified as kernel append parameters. Consider a pxe menu. See attached as a pxe menu example, and look for local.cfg in the documentation directory for a reference on all the SystemImager variables you can pass to the autoinstall client as kernel append parameters. Let us know how it goes! Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Carl Richell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello and thank you in advance for your advice. I am setting up a SystemImager 3.7.3 server for the imaging of our laptop and desktop line. We will have about 10 different images. My current plan is something like this: SystemImager Server | PXE Boot Clients | Prompt to Choose Installation Image I'm stuck on prompting to choose installation image. How can I accomplish this or is there a better way altogether? Cheers, Carl Richell - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ systemimager-commits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/systemimager-commits -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] blockdev and insmod errors
Thus spake A Righi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Zubin, comments below... Sethna, Zubin wrote: Blockdev –rereadpt /dev/sda || shellout SCSI device sda: 31250 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: unknown partition table BLKRRPART: Input/output error If I comment out the blockdev command in the script and rerun it I get further, partitioning occurs successfully but since I am using LVM the script tries to load the device mapper driver and fails as follows: OK, I think we could comment the shellout by default in blockdev... maybe in some cases the command reports an error, but it's able to do the sufficient operations to continue. On the other hand if it completely fails the first parted commands below will fail. Brian, what do you think? do you see any problem? Yes. Looks like we're telling the client to re-read it's partition table, but it doesn't have one. Still a good thing to do by default, though. So, yes, let's remove the shellout for the blockdev command, but leave the command there. insmod: cannot insert ‘/lib/modules/2.6.9-5.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko’: File exists (-1): File exists modprobe: failed to load module dm-mod Does anyone know what causes the above errors and how to fix them? The dm-mod.ko file is present in the initrd.img. The module dm-mod is loaded in the autoinstall script as following: logmsg Load device mapper driver (for LVM). modprobe dm-mod So if it fails it simply continue with the next commands reporting the failure message (there's not shellout). So maybe in your case the script fails when performing the pvcreate commands... can you check this? Regards, -Andrea -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] si_updateclient: differences b/w with and without --dry-run
Ben, I've added testing for this to our TODO list. Thanks, -Brian Thus spake Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I am seeing some strange (and disturbing) behavior from si_updateclient. I run the program with --dry-run to see what it's going to do. I then run it without --dry-run and it does something different. This confuses me. I am running si_updateclient version 3.4.1. In the following excerpt, I run it with --dry-run. I see that it is going to delete /usr/src/kernels/blah, which is OK by me. I run it without --dry-run, and after the run is finished, the directory is still there, and populated. This cycle can be repeated. I have also seen it report a small number of changes, then go and make a large number of changes. I don't have an excerpt of this behavior. Thoughts? -ben Excerpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] local]$ sudo si_updateclient --server duckhunt --image x86_64-dbr --ssh-user 'siuser -i /root/.ssh/updateclient_key' --no-bootloader --dry-run The authenticity of host 'duckhunt (192.168.25.27)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is b8:c0:8a:eb:20:48:90:68:47:a8:6f:77:41:a3:38:99. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'duckhunt,192.168.25.27' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. Performing a dry run -- no files will be modified... Updating image from module x86_64-dbr... receiving file list ... done deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/x86/acpi/cpufreq/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/x86/acpi/cpufreq deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/x86/acpi deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/x86 deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/scsi/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/scsi deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/reiserfs/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/reiserfs deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/keys/debug/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/keys/debug deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/keys deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/i2o/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/i2o deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/acpi/sleep/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/acpi/sleep deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config/acpi deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include/config deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/include deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/fs/proc deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/fs deleting directory usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64 deleting directory usr/src/kernels deleting etc/systemimager/IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO root/.ssh/known_hosts sent 694 bytes received 1037585 bytes 415311.60 bytes/sec total size is 1419259178 speedup is 1366.93 [EMAIL PROTECTED] local]$ sudo si_updateclient --server duckhunt --image x86_64-dbr --ssh-user 'siuser -i /root/.ssh/updateclient_key' --no-bootloader Updating image from module x86_64-dbr... receiving file list ... done deleting etc/systemimager/IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO etc/systemimager/ root/.ssh/known_hosts sent 721 bytes received 1038061 bytes 415512.80 bytes/sec total size is 1419259178 speedup is 1366.27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] local]$ ls -al /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-x86_64/ total 32 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 1 22:07 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 22:07 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 22:07 fs drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 22:07 include [EMAIL PROTECTED] local]$ less /etc/systemimager/updateclient.local.exclude [EMAIL PROTECTED] local]$ si_updateclient -V si_updateclient (part of SystemImager) v3.4.1 Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Brian Elliott Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see CREDITS for a full list of contributors. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -- Ben Hartshorne email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.hartshorne.net -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] could not stat device /dev/sda
(.ko), mptbase.o (.ko) and mptscsih.o (.ko) in the /my_modules directory and then edit INSMOD_COMMANDS to read: insmod scsi_mod.o insmod sd_mod.o insmod mptbase.o insmod mptscsih.o **change .o to .ko in all examples if you systemimager boot kernel is 2.6 based. I hope that helps... --Jeff Ibán Cabrillo wrote: hello, I try to install, a few pc's by PXE. The tftp, dhcp and pxe daemon work fine, but when the init script of systemimager try to patitioning the disk appears the next error: /script/myscritp.sh get_arch Partitioning /dev/sda Old Patition table for /dev/sda Error : could not stat device /dev/sda parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos killing all running procces I've used systemimager 3.4.1-1 and Peter Mueller kernel on a Fedora because the original kernel from systemimager didn't support my network card. Any idea about this Problem?? Thanks -- Best Regards, Jeff Johnson Vice President Engineering/Technology Western Scientific, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]YY=61044order=downsort=datepos=0 http://www.wsm.com 9445 Farnham Street - San Diego, CA 92123 Tel 800.443.6699 +001.858.565.6699 Fax +001.858.565.6938 Abra Capocus - Bugs Bunny --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net /ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]YY=61044order=downsort=datepos=0 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Error when running si_getimage command
Make sure that your client code is at the same level as the server code. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Bernard Li ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I use SystemImager 3.6.x all the time with RHEL4 + clones, however, I never use the si_getimage command. If you are encountering issues, please post as much relevant information as possible and we'll try to get it fixed. Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Zubin Sethna Sent: Mon 06/03/2006 23:32 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Error when running si_getimage command I started with 3.6.3 but when I encountered this problem I decided to use 3.6.2 which seemed more 'official', but to no avail. Since I'm building a RHES4 (ES) machine I will try again using the new machine. If I get this problem again from a clean installation then it probably warrants further investigation. Cheers Zubin PS: On what systems are releases of SystemImager developed and tested on? On 3/7/06, Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the original email you mention you are using 3.6.3, yet the RPMs listed below is for 3.6.2 - which ones did you use? Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Zubin Sethna Sent: Mon 06/03/2006 19:38 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Error when running si_getimage command Yes. I've got the following SystemImager packages installed: systemimager-server-3.6.2-1 systemimager-client-3.6.2-1 systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.6.2-1 systemimager-common-3.6.2-1 I got these packages from here: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar/trunk/packages/sis/distro/common-rpms/ I also installed the following perl modules (from CPAN) on my RHES3 machine: XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09.tar.gz XML-SAX-0.13.tar.gz XML-Simple-2.14.tar.gz perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm These were required by systemimager-server rpm. Zubin On 3/7/06, Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you also install the systemimager-archbootstandard RPM? Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Zubin Sethna Sent: Mon 06/03/2006 15:15 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Sisuite-users] Error when running si_getimage command Hi When using version 3.6.3-1 of SystemImager, I get the following error - rhes30-prj IMAGE RETRIEVAL FINISHED - Press Enter to continue... Couldn't open /var/lib/systemimager/images/rhes30-prj/etc/systemimager/boot/ARCH for reading No such file or directory at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm line 84. The si_getimage command I used is: si_getimage --golden-client prj-intel-05 --image rhes30-prj Is this a showstopper or is the created image usable? Thanks Zubin -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] si_imagemanip can't locate Config/Simple.pm
I've forwarded this to the devel list. -Brian Thus spake Steven A. DuChene ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): OK, but why isn't this a dependancy in one of the systemimager rpm files? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 10, 2006 1:58 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_imagemanip can't locate Config/Simple.pm In this case it's referring to a Perl module called Config::Simple which I believe is used to parse configuration files. Details here: http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/Config-Simple-4.58/Simple.pm You can download the tar.gz from there and installation instructions are included in it. - Rob --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Reading the local.cfg from a usb floppy
Thus spake Bernard Li ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): SATA - probably, USB floppy - don't know. I think we should start an unofficial hardware compatibility list for SystemImager in the wiki... Yes, do it. -Brian Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Simon Lacroix Sent: Wed 08/03/2006 06:13 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Reading the local.cfg from a usb floppy Hi Henrique, I use a kernel from version 3.2 that was sent to me by Peter for a Poweredge 750. Its probably patched the libata patch. Right now because of my floppy problem, I can't really tell if that kernel is going to work for the 850. Do you have PE750 as well of just 850 ? Were you able to get the 750 to work ? I will take a look at upgrading to 3.6.2. Bernard, does 3.6.2 solve the USB floppy problem or the SATA problem ? Thanks for your help ! Simon -Original Message- From: Henrique Moniz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 7, 2006 5:26 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Reading the local.cfg from a usb floppy Hi Simon, We also just bought a dozen of Dell PowerEdge 850's, but I'm having a lot of trouble for the systemimager kernel to detect the SATA disks. Can you tell me what kernel are you using ou how you managed to get the hard disks to be detected? Thanks in advance, Henrique PS: as for your problem, check out this site - http://www.simonf.com/usb/ - I hope it helps! Simon Lacroix wrote: Hello all, We just bought a bunch of DELL poweredge 850 and the little twist is that they come with no floppy drive. I have a small compute grid here and every machine use static IP. I used to provide the IP and the name of the machine through the local.cfg file on a floppy and it worked fine. I tried to use a USB floppy drive in hope that BOEL would see it as a normal floppy but without success. Does it require a lot of OS support in order to use a USB floppy ? (The USB floppy works fine as I can use it as a boot media however I have to boot system imager on a CD since the kernel that I am using to support SATA don't fit on a diskette) Thanks for your insights in the matter ! Simon --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=kkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Can System Imager deal with LVM yet?
I'm afraid what you are attempting is currently not a supported configuration. Disk type independence is my next priority after getting the current udev and uyok code, that is currently in the development trunk, released as stable. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Drew Weaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Actually; all I'm doing is trying to get it to install grub on an ext3 partition without disk labels. It works fine if I am imaging from hda - hda or sda-sda but if I go from hda-sda or sda-hda, it fails to update /etc/fstab, /etc/grub.conf, /boot/grub/menu.lst.. etc etc etc. -Drew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrea Righi Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:42 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Can System Imager deal with LVM yet? Drew, could you provide more details about that? For example grub is not able to load kernel initrd if them are over an LVM volume... I don't know if this is your scenario, but in this case you should consider to create a /boot plain partition using for example ext[23], reiserfs, etc... Regards, -Andrea Drew Weaver wrote: It doesn't even install grub properly; so I doubt it handles LVM. -Drew --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Pre and Post-install script examples
If you have a pre or post-install script that you consider useful, please email a copy to myself or one of the other developers, and we'll include it in the examples/post-install directory. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] fstab is not being updated
Matt, /etc/fstab is one of the items excluded by /etc/systemimager/updateclient.local.exclude. If you would like /etc/fstab to be updated when you run si_updateclient, just comment it out in that file. If you want to do this on all machines, then do this: 1) edit /etc/systemimager/updateclient.local.exclude in your image. 2) si_update all machines (they get the new exclude file) 3) si_update all machines again -- they now get the new fstab file. Oh yeah, a side note: the auto-install script is only used during an auto-install, and is not used during an update. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Brenner, Matthew A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I a new user of SystemImager. I'm quite impressed. I'm using it in a classroom containing one server (2 network cards) and 15 classroom machines; all running Debian Sarge. I got my server and one classroom machine configured correctly and then installed SystemImager-server on my server and SystemImager-client on the workstation. I followed instruction from the manual faithfully and imaged the remaining 14 machines. Next I made some changes to the first workstation. Amoung other things, I added a line to /etc/fstab to mount another file system using NFS. Naturally, I fetched the new image from the workstation to the server and it took only a short time as I used the image name (so it was only an 'update'). Now, when I run si_updateclient on another workstation, a small number of files gets deleted and another bunch added (including /etc/fstab) but after si_updateclient finishes (message: Installation finished. No errors reported) the update seems to be successful, EXCEPT for /etc/fstab which had NOT changed. I peeked at the master script and the fstab data in there is correct! I peeked at fstab in the /etc directory of the image tree and fstab is correct! What is going on that would cause SystemImager to fail to overwrite the old /etc/fstab with the new one? Cheers, Matt -- Matt Brenner Instructor in Computer Science Phillips Exeter Academy 20 Main Street Exeter, NH 03833 phone: (603) 775-7061 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Systemimager with suse 10
Ignacio, I'm afraid your attachements didn't come across in a useable format. Can you attache them as a tarball perhaps? -Brian Thus spake Ignacio Verona ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Brian, thanks for your reply. I don't know exactly what to attach, so I send 3 files. Thank your very much. Quoting Brian Elliott Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please send a copy of your network configuration files from one of your client machines. -Brian [Adjunto extraÃdo: Tipo de adjunto original: application/octet-stream , nombre: config] [Adjunto extraÃdo: Tipo de adjunto original: application/octet-stream , nombre: dhcp] [Adjunto extraÃdo: Tipo de adjunto original: application/octet-stream , nombre: ifcfg-eth-eth0] -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Fwd: Re: [Sisuite-users] Systemimager with suse 10
Ignacio, Please disregard my last email. I was looking at your post to the list, where the files did not come through. But your direct email to me (attached) did contain them. Hopefully they will make it through Mailman as attached to this message, so that others can see them too. Cheers, -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 ---BeginMessage--- Hi Brian, thanks for your reply. I don't know exactly what to attach, so I send 3 files. Thank your very much. Quoting Brian Elliott Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please send a copy of your network configuration files from one of your client machines. -Brian config Description: Binary data dhcp Description: Binary data ifcfg-eth-eth0 Description: Binary data ---End Message---
Re: [Sisuite-users] RAID0 + LVM partitioning
Thus spake Charles Galpin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:14 AM, Andrea Righi wrote: The 3.5.3 version doesn't support LVM over RAID volumes. Does 3.5.3 by any chance support the new software raid configuration used by centos that doesn't use an /etc/raidtab file? Not currently. At this point we expect to find an /etc/raidtab file, but I expect we'll need to update the code soon. thanks charles --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] RE: Dell GX620
Thanks, Pete! -Brian Thus spake Rotheroe Peter-A60023 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Version is 3.5.3 Posted to the wiki at http://wiki.sisuite.org/RHEL4_on_Dell_GX620 (It's a bit long for the list) Cheers, Pete Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] RE: Dell GX620 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:47:22 -0800 From: Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Probably both. Which version of SystemImager are you using? Cheers, Bernard=20 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf=20 Of Rotheroe Peter-A60023 Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:27 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Sisuite-users] RE: Dell GX620 =20 Hello list ... =20 I wrote the attached a month or so ago but didn't receive any=20 responses, so I carried on trying. =20 The end result is a working SystemImager configuration arrived at by a combination of SystemImager tools and hacking. =20 The result of these experiences is a document of some 6 pages=20 which may be useful to others who are attempting similar tasks. =20 My question is should I share it on the list or wiki or both? =20 Thanks in advance for the input. =20 Pete. =20 =20 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:48:24 -0500 From: Rotheroe Peter-A60023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Sisuite-users] Dell GX620 Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net =20 Hello list ... =20 I am working on installing RedHat EL 4 on a Dell Optiplex GX620. While I can do it with the SATA in Compatibility mode, the disk performance is horrible. =20 It needs an up to date kernel with the latest ahci support=20 (Intel ICH7, I believe) for the PXE boot and then I'll need the latest=20 ahci.ko module for RHEL 4. =20 Has anyone done this yet? Any pointers. =20 Thanks =20 Pete Rotheroe. =20 =20 =20 =20 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep=20 through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. =20 DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id=16865op=3Dick ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users =20 --__--__-- ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users End of Sisuite-users Digest --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Setup SystemImager on Fedora 3 or Fedora 4
You can also do an rpm -ql packagename to see a comprehensive list of files installed. Cheers, -Brian Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 -Original Message- From: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:14:46 To:sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Setup SystemImager on Fedora 3 or Fedora 4 On Sunday 13 November 2005 10:57, sivaharan Balasubramaniam wrote: Hello there, I installed the systemimager on fedora 3 4 using: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# ./install --verbose systemimager-client Using pre-existing package list: /tmp/sis-packages/stable.list Checking integrity of systemimager-client-3.4.1-1.noarch.rpm: md5 OK Checking integrity of systemimager-common-3.4.1-1.noarch.rpm: md5 OK Checking integrity of systemconfigurator-2.2.2-1.noarch.rpm: sha1 md5 OK Checking integrity of perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm: md5 OK The System Installation Suite packages you've chosen are already installed. After the installation, I can not find the executable scripts (prepareclient and so on). look for si_prepareclient, etc. put si_ in front of the commands mentioned in the docs... Can someone say if SystemImager could be installed used on Fedora? If so, there is some issue here, can you please help me to fix the issue. Thanks, Siva --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager on Ubuntu
Thanks for your notes, Jan. As an additional comment, Ubuntu is what I now use for development. ;-) Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Jan Groenewald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:19:06AM -0800, Bernard Li wrote: BTW, which version of SystemConfigurator are you referring to in your document? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#dpkg -l | grep systemc ii systemconfigur 2.0.10-1 Unified Configuration API for Linux Installa (the servers are debian sarge) cheers, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Configuration Sanity Check
Nice diagram. And yes, this configuration should work fine. Have used it many times myself. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Andrew D. Fant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Evening All, Having digested the problem and undesirability of moving the DHCP services for SystemImager onto a different server than the images and the rest of the operation (internal politics, ugh!), I have been thinking of alternate configurations to address my real problem, which is the need to be able to completely reimage our testbed cluster (including the head node) with one of several different environments. After some uffish thought, I had the idea of setting up a SystemImager server that functions entirely independently of the cluster head node, as in: External Routed LAN | | +++-+ | Cluster Head Node || SystemImager Server | +++-+ | | Private Cluster LAN || | Compute Node Compute NodeCompute Node Is there any reason that this should present a problem? I know that I will probably want to mask the external interface of the head node from the enterprise DHCP servers to make sure that it doesn't get a reply that breaks reimaging it. Am I missing anything else dreadfully obvious, and has anyone else made a setup like this work before? Thanks, Andy -- Andrew Fant| And when the night is cloudy| This space to let Molecular Geek | There is still a light |-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That shines on me | Disclaimer: I don't Boston, MA | Shine until tomorrow, Let it be | even speak for myself --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: systemimager reboot issue with IBM 8843 blades
Thanks for the followup, Aaron. Cheers, -Brian Ciarlotta, Aaron wrote: Nevermind. After looking at the source code for the kernel, I realized the bug fix was included in that kernel. I'm not sure why it wasn't working properl, but I did find an easy fix: Just append reboot=b to the systemimager kernel via the install.pxe and install.grub files. _ *From: * Ciarlotta, Aaron *Sent: * Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:26 AM *To:* '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' *Subject: * Re: systemimager reboot issue with IBM 8843 blades After composing that email, I decided to modify the master script to prevent the unmounting and reboot after the systemimage rsync was complete... Instead of running the /sbin/reboot in your Linux image, I ran the /a/abin/sbin/reboot, which happens to be from RHES 3.0.4 (reboot in RHES 3.0.4 works fine). It still hung, so I'm guessing it is a kernel issue. Just FYI. _ Aaron Ciarlotta Linux/UNIX Systems Administrator Galileo/TDS HCM - 303-397-5295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] AMD64 Success w/ HOWTO
grub Now you can proceed normally and use si_prepareclient to compile the image and upload to the image server. 1.3 - x86_64 Build Environment Setup (Build Server) This section outlines how to pull the most current version of SystemImager from the subversion repository, it also walks the users through the steps to build a custom boot kernel, initrd.img and boel_binaries from the distribution. For example, if you need to add HBA drivers to your AMD64 boot environment you would need to rebuild the SystemImager binaries and copy them over to your boot server. 1.3.1 - Requirements Server OS: RedHat RHEL 4.0 WS (AMD64) SystemImager: v3.5.2 from SVN trunk 1.3.1.1 - Obtain SystemImager from SVN Check out the current code from the SystemImager Subversion repository or use the tar ball described in the beginning of this document. # svn co svn://svn.sisuite.org/svn/systemimager/trunk 1.3.1.2 - Build kernel, initrd.img, boel_binaries.tar.gz Once you have the source code on the build server (x86_64) follow the steps below to build and install the custom SystemImager boot environment. ~/trunk/ # ./configure ~/trunk/ # make binaries ~/trunk/ # make install_binaries Assuming the build was successful, the last command will install the newly build kernel, initrd.img and boel_binaries.tar.gz in /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/ on the build server. These 3 files must be copied over to the boot server and installed in /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/. The kernel and initrd.img must also be copied to the boot server's /tftpboot/ directory. 1.3.1.3 - Install kernel, initrd.img, boel_binaries.tar.gz The last step in building the boot environment is to copy the newly built SystemImager boot binaries to your boot server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/* /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] # scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/kernel /tftpboot/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] # scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/initrd.img /tftpboot/ PXE Boot your Clients, don't forget to plug in the MAC and restart DHCP. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77alloc_id492op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Creating Images Of Your Linux System - FalkoTimme.com
Falko, I liked your article: http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/systemimager/index.php And I've posted a link to it from here: http://www.systemimager.org/news/ Cheers, -Brian --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] newbee install quesion - 'Out of memory rsync error'
This only happens in one of two cases. 1. You are doing a multicast install. This is a limitation due to a combination of the multicast transport (udpcast) and certain versions of the kernel. This limitation will be removed in a future version of the SystemImager auto-install client software. 2. You explicitly set TMPFS_STAGING=yes option via DHCP, a local.cfg file, or as a kernel append parameter. Otherwise it defaults to no. Cheers, -Brian jstiles wrote: I'm sorry if this is the wrong list for a new-be, as I have posted a few unanswered questions. If this is the wrong list, could you please direct me to the proper list? My question: Why does the master script try to write an entire image (mine is 5.5GB) to memory before writing to disk, when I seems unnecessary, and in my case, illogical, since my system only has 300Mb of RAM, and Systemimager had the opportunity to determine this during the prepareclient, and getimage sessions? Background: The Systemimager installs to a PXE client kept failing, with Out of memory rsync error until I hacked the master script: /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/host.master by adding this line: export TMPFS_STAGING=no to the section Lay the image down on the freshly formatted disk(s) at line (line 236). Google.com didn't find any advice on the subject, and in all the Systemimager or PXE install documentation I've read, I didn't see a reference to this issue or advice on how to fix the problem. Maybe this would be good to add to the prepare client or getimage scripts. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Swap partition has id=83 instead of normal 82
Parted is a bit of a strange beast, and doesn't really care what you
label the partition when it reports what filesystem type it is.
Therefore, if you ask parted about the same disk (parted /dev/cciss/c0d0
print), I'll bet it'll say it's a linux-swap partition. ;-)
I'll take a look at the code to see if it makes sense to make a change,
too. I could have parted use swap instead of ext2 when creating
partitions specifically for use with swap.
Cheers, -Brian
Paul Robertson wrote:
We're using systemimager 3.2.0.4, we noticed that the clients'
partition type for the swap partition is being set to 83 instead of
the normal 82:
da235:~fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 72.8 GB, 72833679360 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 17433 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes
Device Boot StartEndBlocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 38155024 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 39 16919 68874480 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 16920 17433 2097120 83 Linux
It still seems to work ok:
da235:~swapon -s
Filename TypeSizeUsedPriority
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 partition 2097112 42552 -1
It seems that the master script is defaulting to ext2 for all
partitions in parted. This seems to come from the following line from
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm:
$cmd = qq(parted -s -- $devfs_dev mkpart $p_type{$m} ext2 ) .
q($START_MB $END_MB) . qq( || shellout);
I'm wondering if having the swap partition's type set to 83 might
cause problems for the client? Is this an oversight on the part of SI,
or am I missing something?
Cheers,
Paul
P.S. I just checked SI version 3.2.3-1, and the same ext2 default
still seems to apply with that version.
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Re: [Sisuite-users] list of images
Thanks for the re-post, Robert. Cheers, -Brian Robert Fisher wrote: Sorry to bother everyone, I forgot to start the rsync server on the image server so it couldn't find the images. Robert Fisher Sys Admin Inphase Co., Ltd. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] What happened to systemimager.org ?
Brodie, Kent wrote: a) systemimager.org seems to be gone? Took a quick look. whois systemimager.org look right, name servers appear to be responding: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host systemimager.org NS2.BGSW.NET systemimager.orgA 63.251.38.205 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host systemimager.org NS1.BGSW.NET systemimager.orgA 63.251.38.205 Webserver also responding for me. Temporary Internet disruption? b) Where are the current docs on the current sourceforge.net page for systemimager? (docs section is empty) Please try again: http://www.systemimager.org/documentation/ Thanks I am wondering whats new and improved in V 3.4 .. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/systemimager/systemimager/CHANGE.LOG?rev=1.100 Hopefully soon, Dann will have debs in unstable and Jerry will have us some RPMs, and we'll update the installer program referenced on the download page: http://www.systemimager.org/download/ Cheers, -Brian --kent -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Is SystemImager 3.4 support x86_64?
John Lau wrote: Dear all, I would like to ask if the new SystemImager 3.4 from Sourceforge support x86_64? Nope. If no, is there any plan that SystemImager provide support of x86_64? Yes. The code in CVS does. Best regards, John -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] rsync errors - partial transfer
Disk full on the server? If not, then yes, there could be something funny about that last file. Try editing getimage and add as many -v's as you can stand to the rsync command. Start easy though, you don't want to hurt yourself. ;-) Cheers, -Brian Mark Seger wrote: I just had this happen with a RHEL4 system I'm trying to image. This is the end of what I'm seeing on my image server when the getimage failed: usr/bin/pop3test = usr/bin/nntptest usr/bin/sivtest = usr/bin/pop3test usr/bin/smtptest = usr/bin/sivtest wrote 1983266 bytes read 2358221049 bytes 9095199.67 bytes/sec total size is 2528107767 speedup is 1.07 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(926) - SLES9-sp1 IMAGE RETRIEVAL FINISHED - getimage: Failed to retrieve image SLES9-sp1 from 16.118.73.27. I deleted the image and tried it again, and it failed again in exactly the same spot with exactly the same number of bytes written. I'm running the 3.2.3 client and can't honestly say which server I'm running (it IS old), but this is an rsync issue is it not? The rsync client on the image server is rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26. I just looked on the 3.2.3 client and see rsycn is rsync version 2.6.2 protocol version 28, but I'd think rsync has been around long enough that it would work fine between different versions. Could there be something funny about the last file it tried copying? Is there a way to tell getimage to ignore erros and keep on truckin'? -mark --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Office: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: Urgent Help Required : Systemimager
The reiserfs module is included in the boel_binaries tarball, and is not needed in the initrd itself. The filesystems on the client machine are not created or accessed until after the boel_binaries tarball is pulled over. Be sure you're using the latest version, too. Hope that helps, -Brian Thus spake R.N Shukla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Dear Brain, It would be real help if you could tell me about how to add resisefs module/library in the initrd.gz. Regards R N Shukla On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, R.N Shukla wrote: Dear Brain, I had rectified the error below, copied the rsync, made the filesystem with sfdisk, mde the filesystem with mkreiserfs but on mount the /dev/hda* /a/ it says reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on dev --: try to find super block in old location Can you help me in this. I am really stuck in this. Regards R N Shukla On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Please try IRC or the sisuite-users list. You can get information on these from here: http://systemimager.org/support Unfortunately, I am unable to look into this personally right now. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake R.N Shukla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Dear Brain, I am an user of systemiamger for 2-3 years. But recently when i wanted to copy some files of Suse 9.1 with rsync it is giving error in the main.c ( this is on the files which are unix sockets and other special files spread across ). I had traied the option of --ignore-errors in the getimage but all in vain. I require your urgent help in this matter. Regards R N Shukla -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Office: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Office: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Sisuite archives @ marc.theaimsgroup.com
Done: http://www.systemimager.org/support/ Thanks for the patch! -Brian Thus spake Peter Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please update the support index.html page to include the marc.theaimsgroup.com archives. The marc.theaimsgroup.com archive IMO seems about 1000% more usable than the google archives. Here is a ready-made patch: http://world.anarchy.com/~peter/index.sisuite.patch --- index.html.orig 2004-10-21 15:06:15.0 -0700 +++ index.html.siarchives 2004-10-21 15:07:56.0 -0700 @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ h3Email Lists/h3 ul liThe a href=http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users;sisuite-user s/a list is for general discussion on SystemImager and other SIS components. If you have questions about how to do something or want the advice of other users, sign up a href=http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users;here/a./l i + liA searchable, threaded archive of users can be found at a href=http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=sisuite-usersr=1w=2;marc.theaimsgrou p.com/a./li liThe a href=http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-announce;sisuite-a nnounce/a list is for announcements only. Only members of the development team may post to this list. Announcements to this list also go to the sisuite-users list. So if you only want to get email when a new release or major announcement is being made, sign up a href=http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-announce;here/a. /li /ul Regards, P --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Office: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] x86_64 architecture experiences with systemimager
We are currently working on this, and are checking the updates into CVS. Unfortunately the anonymous cvs server lags behind the live cvs server. I think that it is now building completely for dann. Perhaps jump on IRC. More info on joining irc here: http://systemimager.org/support Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Bryan Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm looking for info on getting systemimager built on the x86_64 platform. I've gone through a lot of trial and error already, and am now using the latest CVS build, which gets farther than any other version. However, after some minor Makefile tweeks, the build is dying when compiling busybox, with a message saying it does not support this architecture. Has anyone gotten past this point? The reason I am not using the stable version is because it does not have the sata drivers I need, and I have not been successful in patching the kernel to provide the drivers. Any suggestions along these lines would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -bryan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Office: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Found It
You can do a cpimage --server SERVERNAME --image IMAGE Cheers, -Brian Thus spake David Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Regarding maintaining images current image, I believe the explanation is in the README file in: /etc/systemimager/rsync_stubs directory At first glance, it looks as if that may answer my other question also regarding importing images from another server. David Marquardt __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Office: 630.252.4742 Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] mkautoinstalldiskette fails
Thus spake Brad Penner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have setup my server on a Dell 1750 running RHEL3. I have successfully created a golden client image from a Dell 6650 running RHEL3. When I run mkautoinstalldiskette the process fails during the copy and says that it cannot copy the .img file. It seems that the image, kernel, and config are too big to fit on a floppy disk. Any advice? By config file, I presume you're referring to a local.cfg file? If so, try this before copying your local.cfg file to the diskette: mv local.cfg local.cfg.orig egrep -v '^(#|$)' local.cfg.orig local.cfg Cheers, -Brian Thanks, Brad --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721alloc_id=10040op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Systemimager] Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower connectivity test problem
Ah!
It just hit me. The reason we don't ping the IMAGESERVER if
FLAMETHROWER_DIRECTORY_PORTBASE is set, is that the client may never be
given, know, or need to know, the ip address of the imageserver because
the client is receiving _all_ of it's data via multicast, which is more
like listening to a channel, as compared with connecting directly to
a server.
I've put this as a comment in there for a future release.
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
We at SARA are currently switching to flamethrower setup. If we
enable flamethrower the conenctivity test is different then
with rsync, from /etc/init.d/rcS
# Ping test
ping_test() {
echo
echo ping_test
if [ ! -z $FLAMETHROWER_DIRECTORY_PORTBASE ]; then
PING_DESTINATION=$GATEWAY
HOST_TYPE=default gateway
else
PING_DESTINATION=$IMAGESERVER
fi
echo
echo Pinging your $HOST_TYPE to ensure we have network
connectivity.
echo
My question is why?
I honestly don't remember why, but it definitely looks like it was on
purpose.
It is fine for me ;-). Still strange that the check is different. Maybe
we have to do 2 ping tests if flamethrower is enabled. One to the
gateway and if this fails to the imageserver. Just a thought
Regards
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Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower connectivity test problem
Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
We at SARA are currently switching to flamethrower setup. If we enable
flamethrower the conenctivity test is different then
with rsync, from /etc/init.d/rcS
# Ping test
ping_test() {
echo
echo ping_test
if [ ! -z $FLAMETHROWER_DIRECTORY_PORTBASE ]; then
PING_DESTINATION=$GATEWAY
HOST_TYPE=default gateway
else
PING_DESTINATION=$IMAGESERVER
fi
echo
echo Pinging your $HOST_TYPE to ensure we have network connectivity.
echo
My question is why?
I honestly don't remember why, but it definitely looks like it was on
purpose.
Our flamethrower server is the same as our rsync-server. If we can ping
it then everything is oke. The other problem we have 2 network cards in
our machines:
- One for booting/sysadm stuff
- The other for the users
The user-lan has an default gateway specified as dhcp-option. This lan
is not up when we install an node. That the reason why we ran into this
problem. We have no gateway and the install will fail.
The code in the current devel release (3.3.2) will not fail the install
if it fails the ping test, but will just print a WARNING message
instead:
ping_test() {
echo
echo ping_test
if [ ! -z $FLAMETHROWER_DIRECTORY_PORTBASE ]; then
PING_DESTINATION=$GATEWAY
HOST_TYPE=default gateway
else
PING_DESTINATION=$IMAGESERVER
fi
echo
echo Pinging your $HOST_TYPE to ensure we have network connectivity.
echo
# Ping test code submitted by Grant Noruschat
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# modified slightly by Brian E. Finley.
PING_COUNT=1
ING_EXIT_STATUS=1
while [ $PING_EXIT_STATUS != 0 ]
do
echo PING ATTEMPT $PING_COUNT:
ping -c 1 $PING_DESTINATION
PING_EXIT_STATUS=$?
if [ $PING_EXIT_STATUS = 0 ]; then
echo
echo We have connectivity to your $HOST_TYPE!
fi
PING_COUNT=$(( $PING_COUNT + 1 ))
if [ $PING_COUNT = 4 ]; then
echo
echo WARNING: Failed ping test.
echo Despite this seemingly depressing result, I will attempt
echo to proceed with the install. Your $HOST_TYPE may be
echo configured to not respond to pings, but it wouldn't hurt
echo to double check that your networking equipment is
echo working properly!
echo
sleep 5
PING_EXIT_STATUS=0
fi
done
unset PING_DESTINATION
unset HOST_TYPE
}
Cheers!
-Brian
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Re: [Sisuite-users] touchimage update client script
the image is stored.
+The image name itself will be placed inside the directory specified here.
+
+EOF
+}
return 1;
diff -urN --exclude CVS systemimager/sbin/touchimage systemimager.local/sbin/touchimage
--- systemimager/sbin/touchimage 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100
+++ systemimager.local/sbin/touchimage 2004-06-26 00:40:05.0 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# SystemImager
+#
+#
+# $Id: touchimage,v 0.1 2004/06/26 05:53:57 Ghe Rivero Exp $
+#
+# TODO
+#- Add help entrys to SystemImager::Options
+#
+
+# set system path for system() calls
+$ENV{PATH} = /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin;
+
+# version
+$version_number=SYSTEMIMAGER_VERSION_STRING;
+
+# use the long options module to allow us to use, well, long options ;)
+use lib /USR_PREFIX/lib/systemimager/perl;
+use Getopt::Long;
+use SystemImager::Server;
+use SystemImager::Common;
+use SystemImager::Config;
+use SystemImager::Options;
+use vars qw($config $VERSION);
+
+my $config_dir = /etc/systemimager;
+
+my $image;
+my $default_image_dir = $config-default_image_dir();
+
+if (!$default_image_dir) {
+die DEFAULT_IMAGEDIR not defined in the config file.;
+}
+
+### BEGIN Program ###
+
+# figure out the program name
+$0 =~ /(.*)\/+([^\/]*)$/;
+$program_name = $2;
+
+$version_info = EOF;
+$program_name (part of SystemImager) v$version_number
+
+EOF
+
+$version_info .= SystemImager::Options-copyright();
+
+$get_help = Try \$program_name -help\ for more options.;
+
+# set help information
+$help_info = $version_info . SystemImager::Options-touch_options_header();
+$help_info = $help_info . SystemImager::Options-generic_options_help_version();
+$help_info = $help_info . SystemImager::Options-touchimage_options_body();
+$help_info = $help_info . SystemImager::Options-generic_footer();
+
+### BEGIN evaluate options ###
+GetOptions(
+image=s = \$image,
+directory=s = \$default_image_dir,
+help = \$help,
+version = \$version,
+) || die $help_info;
+
+#if requested, print help information
+if ($help) {
+ print $help_info;
+ exit 0;
+}
+
+# if requested, print version and copyright information
+if ($version) {
+ print $version_info;
+ exit 0;
+}
+
+# be sure program is run by root
+SystemImager::Common-check_if_root();
+
+# image must be set.
+unless ($image) {
+ die \n$program_name: You must specify -image.\n$get_help\n\n;
+}
+
+#be sure $image doesn't start with a hyphen
+if($image){
+ if ($image =~ /^-/) {
+die \n$program_name: Image name can't start with a hyphen.\n$get_help\n\n;
+ }
+}
+
+# be sure $default_image_dir is an absolute path starting with /
+unless ($default_image_dir =~ /^\//) {
+ die \n$program_name: -directory must be an absolute path starting with \/\.\n$get_help\n\n;
+}
+
+$imagedir = $default_image_dir/$image;
+SystemImager::Server-record_image_retrieval_time($imagedir);
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Re: [Sisuite-users] ATA_PIIX (SATA /dev/sda) ISO
Thanks, Peter! Thus spake Peter Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, If anyone is looking for a SATA kernel that recognizes SATA as /dev/sda (jeff garzik driver @ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/) instead of /dev/hda, you can use my kernel @ http://ws4001.sidestep.com/si320sata.iso and http://ws4001.sidestep.com/kernel. The kernel is 2.4.25-SI patched with libata. I've turned off some drivers I don't need, but left most of the major drivers in place. It is designed to work with Dell Poweredge servers, so all those should work for certain. Installation : install SI-3.2.0-4 (latest stable). Replace the existing kernel in /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/ with this one. If you use PXE, replace the kernel in /tftpboot. If you only want to boot from a CD, ignore all the previous instructions and just burn a CD using the linked-ISO. Peter Mueller Operations Engineer (408)235-1700 x125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find travel deals from dozens of sites - with one search Try SideStep - The traveler's search engine www.sidestep.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21alloc_id040op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21alloc_id040op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Slow disk I/O during installation
I'm considering this a bug. Previous releases, which had the ide driver compiled into the kernel directly (just how does one say that succinctly anyway), had dma turned on by default (kernel option). I'll have a look at the code and see if we can't get it turned _back_ on by default for the modular driver. Thanks! -Brian Thus spake Ole Holm Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A solution has been found ! Thanks to Bas van der Vlies and Gerben Roest. The conclusions are: 1. The SI 2.4.25 kernel has all IDE drivers as modules (check the SI source file systemimager/patches/linux.i386.config), so in order to get speedy I/O during installation you need to load manually the appropriate IDE driver in the SI master script (in /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/XXX_image.master). The IBM PCs we used in this case have the Intel i865 chipset with the Intel IDE chip. Find out your own chipset first ! 2. By default DMA seems to be turned off, so you have to enable DMA manually (provided you have modern hardware). Although the hdparm tool can do this, hdparm isn't available in the standard SI, but there's another possibility: Use the file /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings to read or write settings for the /dev/hda disk. 3. I modified my SI master script by adding just before the line ### BEGIN partition /dev/hda ### the following lines: echo Loading ide chipset modules.. # Intel PIIX IDE driver modprobe piix # Setting harddisk speed to maximum! echo io_32bit:1 /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings echo using_dma:1 /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings echo Updated harddisk parameters are cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings # sleep 10 # For checking the output visually The transfer of a 2.0 GB disk image with a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet went down from about 15 minutes to about 4 minutes. The filesystem creation time was also much reduced. Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Compiling a running kernel
# CONFIG_USB_AUERSWALD is not set # CONFIG_USB_TIGL is not set # CONFIG_USB_BRLVGER is not set # CONFIG_USB_LCD is not set # # Support for USB gadgets # # CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set # # Bluetooth support # # CONFIG_BLUEZ is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=0 # # Cryptographic options # # CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set # # Library routines # # CONFIG_CRC32 is not set CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y # CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE is not set Mit freundlichen Gr??en / With kind regards Sebastian Krebs --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Adding New Commands/Functions
Yup. I think this is a good idea. I'll add it as an option. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Ted Arden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, David Marquardt wrote: The two things I wanted to do was to add a couple more unix commands, and an eject command that I can specify as a --post-install option. In our environment with 64-128 servers running, the beep option doesn't help cuz you can't hear it. Ejecting the CD tray is a simple, visual way to know who's done or more importantly, if one or more nodes failed to load. HAHHAHA.. that's how we used to do it back in the olden days, eh brian? would have to dig up some 3+ year old notes.. =ted= --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Performance Issues
Thus spake David Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): MULTICAST In general we've extremely pleased with SystemImager performance. It's always nice to get a little more though. We've tried using multicast a couple of times on 3.1.5 (3.15?) and haven't cracked it. We did manage to get a commercial product to work with multicast but the DHCP handshaking with our DHCP server and the nodes was so irratic that we spent so much time rebooting one or more nodes so they would catch a DHCP connection, that it more than negated the increased performance of the multicast. As a fallback, we've gone to using a large ramdisk on the server for the image such that there is no (disk i/o) preformance penalty if it's downloading 16, 32, 64 nodes asynchronously. In otherwords, we can power up all the machines and they start when their ready. If a few nodes miss the DHCP the first time, we just reset those instead of holding up the whole rack or cluster. DUAL ETHERNET Our servers have dual gigabit ports and we have ample switches that we can use as needed. I was researching trunking issues on our switches pertaining to performance. So, can I make use of both ethernet ports during the downloading? Not without significant effort. No support exists in SystemImager to do this -- it would be all hacks on your part. Can I run two system imagers at the same time? Yes. You can even have a set of image servers, that are systemimager clients from a master image server. Pull an end client's image to an imageserver ; pull that imageserver's image to the master imageserver ; image your other imageservers from the master imageserver ; image all of your clients from the non-master imageservers. Cheers, -Brian (I know this issue is sort of mute if you are using multicast which is why I explained our multicast issue first.) Thanks. David __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Adding New Commands/Functions
By the way, there's pre-install and post-install script support in the development branch (v3.3.2 and higher). Thus spake David Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There are a couple of simple items that I've been wanting to add to my SI. I know it can be done but the information that I found in the user manual wasn't real clear. Can you point me to a document that someone has created that walks me through it? The two things I wanted to do was to add a couple more unix commands, and an eject command that I can specify as a --post-install option. In our environment with 64-128 servers running, the beep option doesn't help cuz you can't hear it. Ejecting the CD tray is a simple, visual way to know who's done or more importantly, if one or more nodes failed to load. Thanks. David __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] DHCP Error While Imaging
Be sure that you have specified enough IP addresses to hand out via mkdhcpserver, or by hand in your dhcpd.conf file. Also be sure that no other devices (switch, printserver, etc.) are grabbing ip addresses you intend for computers. You can look at your dhcpd.leases file on your server to see what addresses it has handed out. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Parker, Judith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I'm in the process of imaging several nodes on an internal linux network cluster (nodes have one nic). I've imaged 5 systems, and on the sixth system I got the following error message: dhcpnak with no active lease no dhcpoffers received no working leases in persistent database sleeping I've checked the lease file in /etc and it is empty. I've restarted dhcpd several times (although systemimager does that for me when I'm performing a mkdhcpserver). I've also rebooted the systemimager server. No joy! I'm at a loss. I've done nothing different on the system going from worker 5 to worker 6. All the systems are identical. Can anyone suggest some things I could try? Judith Parker Fleet Numerical Oceanography and Meteorology Center Div 212 (831)656-4318 Judith Parker Systems Division FNMOC, Div 212 831-656-4318 --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] using local.cfg with mkautoinstallcd
It is not currently supported, but may be soon. Look for it in the CHANGE.LOG of a 3.3.3 or higher release. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I've searched through the documentation for systemimager and it isn't clear to me whether using local.cfg is supported with mkautoinstallcd. I've most recently been booting machines from CD and using a floppy with the local.cfg file with the settings I'd like to use. We're now getting machines without floppy drives and would like to see about booting from CD without using DHCP. Is this supported in 3.2? Can I use the append option to mkautoinstallcd to pass the local.cfg variables? Thanks. -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] flamethrowerd: restarting after flamethrower.conf change fails
Thanks, Ramon. If you happen to modify the flamethrowerd code, and produce a patch before it's been fixed here (not top priority at the moment), please send it in! Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Ramon Bastiaans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Looks like I found a little bug in flamethrowerd. When flamethrowerd detects a change in flamethrower.conf, and tries to restart itself and the udp-senders, it fails. I'm not quite sure what is causing it, but it seems to have something to do with de creation and deletion/unlinking of the .pid files in the state directory. Flamethrowerd seems to be unable to unlink the old .pid files - when reloading after a config change - in the state dir, and (I think) because of that, fails to (re)start. Also, when using the init.d script 'systemimager-server-flamethrowerd' to restart or stop the flamethrowers, it fails, because of missing or incorrect pid numbers in the state directory. To workaround it I added a couple of kill -9`pidof`'s to our init.d script, but perhaps someone could figure out what's causing it. Kind regards, -- Ramon Bastiaans SARA - Academic Computing Services Kruislaan 415 1098 SJ Amsterdam --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] parted : /lib/libgpm.so.1
Thus spake Peter Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I finally got around to testing my systemimager-3.3.0 + libata build today. It boots ok, but then I get to a parted dependancy error. Why isn't mklibs / parted.rul pulling in /lib/libgpm.so.1? What is the preferred way to pull this library in? I remembered something funky about the parted libs, and found this in the SystemImager Makefile: # # Use the mklibs script from Debian to find and copy libraries # and any soft links. Note: This does not require PIC libraries # -- it will copy standard libraries if it can't find a PIC # equivalent. -BEF- # cd $(BOEL_BINARIES_DIR) \ $(PYTHON) $(TOPDIR)/initrd_source/mklibs -L \ $(SRC_DIR)/$(PARTED_DIR)/libparted/.libs:$(SRC_DIR)/$(DISCOVER_DIR)/lib/.libs \ -v -d lib bin/* sbin/* Hope that helps give you some ideas... Regards, Peter Mueller Operations Engineer (408)235-1700 x125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find travel deals from dozens of sites - with one search Try SideStep - The traveler's search engine www.sidestep.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Building from CVS: Missing discover_1.5-2.tar.gz
I've placed a copy of this in http://download.systemimager.org/pub/discover And have updated v3_2_x in CVS. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Ole Holm Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to build the latest SystemImager 3.3.2 from the CVS tree on a Redhat RHEL 3.0 server. However, the make invariable fails because of a missing tarball: (lines deleted) getsource: Can't find a local copy of discover_1.5-2.tar.gz. getsource: I will try to fetch it from a well known site. Please copy this getsource: tarball to one of the following locations to prevent downloading getsource: the source again and sucking up unnecessary bandwidth: /scratch/SI/systemimager /usr/src --15:19:32-- http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/discover/discover_1.5-2.tar.gz = `discover_1.5-2.tar.gz' Resolving http.us.debian.org... done. Connecting to http.us.debian.org[208.185.25.35]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 15:19:33 ERROR 404: Not Found. --- I browsed several sites, and apparently the directory structure for discover has now been changed. There exists a .../discover1/discover1_1.5-4.tar.gz file, but no 1.5-2 tarball. Developers, could you kindly update the CVS as regards this file ? Thanks a lot, Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Posible improvement
Thus spake Ghe Rivero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi everybody, I don't know if this have been discussed before or there is something in the way, but i would like to propose, and if everybody agree, i can start working on it. The situation is: A university with 7 labs, the minor one with 35 computers and the biggest one with 100. All labs have dual boot, but the most of the people use Windows. My idea (really two) is: 1.- Have something like a si-client-daemon that everytime a computer boots with Linux, connect to the si-server-daemon to look for changes in the image and update automatically This can be done now, by creating an init script that runs updateclient. 2.- Integrate all this with a kind of database in the si-server that reflects how many computers do we have per lab, if the computers have the last version of the image and even how many times a linux system has been used. (just let free your imagination) This is an interesting idea. At some point we'll want to incorporate many things into a back-end database, and this would be a very reasonable thing to do at that point. Cheers, -Brian What do you think about all that? (i don't know if there is a devel mailing list) Ghe Rivero --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] How do you define a specific autoinstall script in local.cfg
This is based on the assumption that most auto-installed clients will be the same -- it allows you to make modifications in the master autoinstall script and have it take affect for all the clients with soft links pointing to it. If you need a customized script for an individual client, you can break the link, and make that client's hostname.sh script different. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Graham Purcocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks for this anser. On follow on question. Why does the system create machinename.sh links to the master. What is that for? Graham Brian Elliott Finley wrote: If you specify IMAGENAME in the local.cfg, then it will use IMAGENAME.master as it's autoinstall script. Thus spake Graham Purcocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tried the archives but didn't see anything relevant. Basically I have a hand crafted script and using local.cfg to define IP address, etc. But when it gets to loading the script it attempts to pull IMAGENAME.master rather than the HOSTNAME.sh which I expected. What is the correct way to solve this? Thanks Graham begin:vcard fn:Graham Purcocks n:Purcocks;Graham org:WSI Ltd;Engineering adr:Hockley;;22-24 Vittoria Street;Birmingham;W.Midlands;B1 3PE;U.K. email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant Engineer tel;work:+44 121 233 7600 tel;fax:+44 121 233 7666 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.wsieurope.com version:2.1 end:vcard begin:vcard fn:Graham Purcocks n:Purcocks;Graham org:WSI Ltd;Engineering adr:Hockley;;22-24 Vittoria Street;Birmingham;W.Midlands;B1 3PE;U.K. email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant Engineer tel;work:+44 121 233 7600 tel;fax:+44 121 233 7666 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.wsieurope.com version:2.1 end:vcard -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Problems with imaging machines with non-standard partition table
Thanks, John. I'll have a look at the code that does this, and I appreciate your saying that you believe a 1 sector partition is a reasonable solution. The inherent problem is that parted, while nice in many respects, fails to allow you to create arbitrarily numbered partitions. _It_ chooses the partition number, which means that you have to create them in order - bummer. Anyway, i'll have a look at some point to see if we can insert a zero length, or a 1 sector sized partition in for missing partitions. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake John Chabalko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi there - i have a quick question regarding a small problem we've come across using system imager in our environment. We have a golden client that has a partition table with no sda3 we've got: /dev/sda1 (primary) /dev/sda2 (primary) /dev/sda4 (extended) /dev/sda5 (logical) /dev/sda6 (logical) /dev/sda7 (logical) we can take the image from the golden client with out any problems, but during the filesystem creation part of the imaging process (putting this image on a fresh machine) the partition creation fails. we have fixed this by creating sda3 with a size of 1 sector but would like to not have to do that as it uses some space which could otherwise be utilized. this *is* an acceptable fix for this problem - just figured that this scenerio could be incorporated into a later release if anyone else had problems like this... the reason for this some what strange partition table is that it's a requirement for using Veritas Volume Manager on these systems. Basically we've built these images so that we can install Veritas on any of the systems that we've created using this image. Veritas requires 1 primary partition be free (we've chosen sda3, could be 1, 2 or 4 i guess just as easily) and that there be some unallocated space (few megs) at the end of the disk for private region information. -john --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149alloc_id?66op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Tip: using OVERRIDES to provide new client NIC info
Thanks, George! (comments below) Thus spake George Baben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): PXE building clients with multiple NICs rendered a problem with getting the NIC configs right. Instead of delaring the netstuff in the autoinstall-script (which for some reason mix the NICs up) I copied the relevant files (ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1, ifcfg-eth2 and resolv.conf into ../overrides/[$imagename]-[$HOSTNAME]/ Following the client boot, /sbin/dhclient-script gets executed, if you read this script you'll notice that this script will RECREATE /etc/resolv.conf. So I edited the client image file (/var/lib/systemimager/images/[myimage]/sbin/dhclient-script: In the first function (save_previous) I changed: mv $1 $1.predhclient to cp $1 $1.predhclient In the second function (make_resolv_conf) I changed the first redirector to an append: echo '; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script' /etc/resolv.conf to echo '; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script' /etc/resolv.conf Then when the client pxe-boots, it will get the overrides, dump them in root, and move them to their destinations, without the resolver file getting reborn. Oh yeah I added in my auto-install script: chroot /a/ mv -f ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (and the same for the other files) By the way, if you place the files in your override directory as such: OVERRIDE_DIR/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 instead of as such: OVERRIDE_DIR/ifcfg-eth0 Then they will automatically be put into the right place without need to modify the autoinstallscript. Cheers! -Brian Hope this is of use. Cheers; George Baben Software Engineer Vibrant Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0) 207 239 0134 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149alloc_id?66op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] unxepected results w/ imaging_complete rsync transfer
Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian Elliott Finley wrote: I've taken a look, and other than the cosmetic ugliness of seeing the error, things should be working for you. netbootmond should still be able to see the right line in the log file (/var/log/systemimager/rsyncd), and should do the right thing. It's not. The tail -n 0 ... command is reading the wrong line, since more lines are being output in the rsyncd log than expected, and as a result the scripts/imaging_complete compare isn't hitting. Is this a problem only when netbootmond first starts up? Does changing the -n 0 to -n 20 fix things? Can you send me a copy of your log file? However, it is ugly, and I'll probably do something about that in the code. Do you have NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = local set in your /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf file on your server? Yes. And I've restarted the service several times for good measure. ;-) If I drop a zero length scripts/imaging_complete file, then netbootmond does its thing. -Steve Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi - No, I've not received any responses. I've looked on the rsync.samba site, and see references to the same message, but w/ no listed resolution. Thoughts? Thanks. -Steve. Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Did you ever get an answer to this question? -Brian Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When the autoinstall script executes the following line near the end of the image distribution process: rsync $IMAGESERVER::scripts/imaging_complete /dev/null 21 I get the following *3* lines in my rsyncd.conf: 2004/04/27 16:01:29 [5810] rsync on scripts/imaging_complete from poker.lkg.hp.com (16.118.32.119) 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] link_stat /imaging_complete : No such file or directory 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(372) And the client spits out the following: rsync image_server_IP::scripts/imaging_complete client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option? rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(594) And, since netbootmond is only looking for the one line that has the scripts/imaging_complete string (the first of these three), netbootmond isn't doing it's thing to allow installed clients to boot locally upon next boot. The rsync's of the image occurred w/out hitch prior to executing this command. The rsync deamon is indeed running, and /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf is standard/stock: list = yes timeout = 600 dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.Z *.ZIP *.bz2 *.deb *.rpm *.dbf uid = root gid = root use chroot = yes log file = /var/log/systemimager/rsyncd # # For additional security, modify and uncomment this line. See # man rsyncd.conf for details. # #hosts allow = 127.0.0.0/24 MY_NET/NETMASK MY_CLIENT/32 [boot] path = /usr/share/systemimager/boot [overrides] path = /var/lib/systemimager/overrides [scripts] path = /var/lib/systemimager/scripts [base-image] path=/var/lib/systemimager/images/base-image Any thougts on why rsync is outputting these additional lines? Thanks much. Steve Grandinetti --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting - udp-sender does not wait?
Fixed in stable and unstable. Will be in next releases.
The fix I chose was to use local COUNT=0, instead of the unset COUNT
at the end.
Thanks for finding this!
Cheers,
-Brian
Thus spake Ramon Bastiaans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I think Samuele is right, and I was wrong ;)
I thought it was caused by COUNT not getting initialized, but it seems
it is the other way around, it's unset prematurely.
After renaming COUNT to COUNTME in the sleep_loop function it seems
to work properly.
The unset statement from sh seems to unset global variables as well
when run from inside a function.
For example, with this test script:
-- copy here --
#!/bin/sh
TEST=bla
myfunction() {
TEST=whatever
unset TEST
}
echo Before function call: TEST = $TEST
myfunction
echo After function call: TEST = $TEST
-- end copy --
When run this gives the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./set.test.sh
Before function call: TEST = bla
After function call: TEST =
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
This is probably why COUNT gets messed up.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sisuite-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Elliott Finley
Sent: zaterdag 29 mei 2004 0:39
To: Tognini Samuele
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting - udp-sender does not
wait?
Thanks, Samuele,
I'll have a look there.
-Brian
Thus spake Tognini Samuele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
COUNT=0 seems to be already getting set, but I may be looking in
the
wrong place. Can you send in a patch?
I think the solution is not to set COUNT=0. For me the problem is
that
COUNT is unset in sleep_loop procedure at every cicle.
Last month i submit this bug, the details, and the solution to
systemimager Bugs Traker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=944108group_i
d=
259atid=100259
I hope this can help you.
Regard,
Samuele.
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Re: [Systemimager] [Sisuite-users] clients hostname
Next release will include pre-install and post-install script
capability, and I'll be asking for submissions to post on the web
as examples.
This could be a good example.
Just something to keep in mind...
Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Ghe Rivero wrote:
Hi people!
After install everything properly, i have a problem cause in the
clients installed, the hostname is properly given but not included in
the /etc/hosts. There is no DNS so some applications failed to start. Is
there any way to update /etc/hosts with the client hostname Thanks.
Ghe Rivero
I usually edit the master script file and include a function
'create_host_file':
create_hosts_file() {
cat /a/etc/hosts EOF
#
# Created by SystemImager
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
# First device eth0 (10.168.xxx.xxx)
#
$IPADDR $HOSTNAME
# Second device eth1 (192.168.xxx.xxx)
#
$IPADDR_USER$HOSTNAME_USER
# IP addresses other fileservers.
#
10.0.40.2nfs1-server
10.0.40.3nfs2-server
10.0.40.5nfs3-server
EOF
}
Hope this Helps
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Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting - udp-sender does not wait?
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Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting - udp-sender does not wait?
Thanks, Samuele, I'll have a look there. -Brian Thus spake Tognini Samuele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 28 May 2004, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: COUNT=0 seems to be already getting set, but I may be looking in the wrong place. Can you send in a patch? I think the solution is not to set COUNT=0. For me the problem is that COUNT is unset in sleep_loop procedure at every cicle. Last month i submit this bug, the details, and the solution to systemimager Bugs Traker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=944108group_id=259atid=100259 I hope this can help you. Regard, Samuele. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: Systemimager
I forget. Let me look at the code. Ah, I see. It's because we need to retrieve the boel_binaries tarball from the server, but if we do it via rsync, then we've opened up a hole to allow access to other things too. And at that point in the operation, we don't have ssh binaries on the client yet (they're in the boel binaries tarball), so we can't ssh into the server yet. So the web server changes allow for a safe transport mechanism from which to pull the boel binaries tarball. After that point, the client uses the ssh binaries in the tarball as the transport mechanism. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Mark Saum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey, with ssh, what do the changes to the Apache config do for you? You recommend a change to the Apache config, but I didn't think a web server was required for SystemImager. Thanks, Mark -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] How do you define a specific autoinstall script in local.cfg
If you specify IMAGENAME in the local.cfg, then it will use IMAGENAME.master as it's autoinstall script. Thus spake Graham Purcocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tried the archives but didn't see anything relevant. Basically I have a hand crafted script and using local.cfg to define IP address, etc. But when it gets to loading the script it attempts to pull IMAGENAME.master rather than the HOSTNAME.sh which I expected. What is the correct way to solve this? Thanks Graham begin:vcard fn:Graham Purcocks n:Purcocks;Graham org:WSI Ltd;Engineering adr:Hockley;;22-24 Vittoria Street;Birmingham;W.Midlands;B1 3PE;U.K. email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant Engineer tel;work:+44 121 233 7600 tel;fax:+44 121 233 7666 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.wsieurope.com version:2.1 end:vcard -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file
Unfortunately, due to a problem with udpcast (or udpcast + kernel combo), it was necessary to _always_ use tmpfs with multicast that version of SystemImager. I'm hoping to change that chunk of code back (tmpfs is optional) with a new version of udpcast and a our new kernel. If tmpfs is getting full, and you must use multicast, see the FAQ for tmpfs options. You may want to explicitly set the size of your tmpfs filesystem. The FAQ section of the SystemImager manual will explain this, and give you all the tmpfs options you can use, and how to use them. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): OK, I did more investigation. I commented out the lines in the dhcpd.conf file related to tmpfs, restarted dhcod, pxe and inetd (to make sure). Then tried it again, it still tries to use the tmpfs system and it still gets full. How do I stop it from using tmpfs? Tom |-+ | | Brian Elliott| | | Finley | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ov | | | Sent by: Brian | | | Elliott Finley | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | || | || | | 04/15/2004 04:52 | | | PM | |-+ ---| | | | To: Tom Kennedy/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: SIS Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file | ---| Have you started /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-flamethrower ? Do you have the following option set in your dhcpd.conf file? option option-143 9000; Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Looks like system imager 3.2 and flame thrower 0.1.6.1. Here is an ls of my sis-packages directory -bash-2.05b# ls sis-packages flamethrower-0.1.6-1.noarch.rpm stable.list systemimager-flamethrower-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm install systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm systemimager-common-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm systemimager-server-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm -bash-2.05b# Tom |-+ | | Brian Elliott| | | Finley | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ov | | || | | 04/15/2004 03:33 | | | PM | |-+ ---| | | | To: Tom Kennedy/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file | ---| Are you using the current version of SystemImager (3.2.x) and Flamethrower (0.1.6)? If not, please see: http://systemimager.org/download -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am trying to use flamethrower to install my clients. They boot up fine from the network, create the file system and eventually tries to use flame thrower. I get the following error from the flamethrower_client Can not find file /var/lib/systemimager/flamethrower/boot-i386-standard This occurrs just after the multicast.tar file is transfered(or whatever it is doing) Any help appreciated. Thanks. Tom -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver
[Sisuite-users] Re: found bug in Server.pm
Thus spake Mark Seger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ...and guess who's fingerprints are on it? BEF!!! gottcha... 8-) Heh. ;-) I just found a comment in the create_autoinstall_script function in Server.pm that explicitly says: # Truncate the /etc/mtab file. It can cause confusion on the autoinstall # client, making it think that filesystems are mounted when they really # aren't. And because it is automatically updated on running systems, we # don't really need it for anything anyway. -BEF- well guess what? it IS needed by grub-install. in the find_device() function, grub-install does a 'df' and that call blows up if there's an empty mtab file. in fact.one of the fixes I had to make to get gruib-install to work was to copy the /proc/mounts file back to /etc/mtab. so it sounds like whatever problem might be caused by having a non-empty mtab file needs a different solution OR alternatively the Grub.pm module in systemconfigurator needs a patch to reload /etc/mtab (which is how I got around it). Mark, I'm glad you found this. What you say makes sense. I forget exactly which stage of install was experiencing problems because of the mtab file, but because it was copied over from the image, and not from the running client, it held what was often bogus information that didn't match the actual state of things. If we can fix problems with grub-install by having an accurate /etc/mtab file, then that's an excellent, easy solution. I think the Grub.pm module may be the best place to do this -- but it could also be done in the autoinstall script. Ultimately, the thing to do here is what I think you describe above, that is, to generate an /etc/mtab file, that is appropriate for the current state of the machine, _immediately_ prior to running System Configurator (if done in the autoinstall script), or any time prior to invoking grub-install, if done in System Configurator. Dann, Sdague, comments about the appropriate code location for this fix? Are there any other tools that this could be causing problems with? -mark -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562alloc_id=6184op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Supported Linux flavors?
It works with Gentoo as well, but you may need to compile it yourself as the Gentoo package is current in the commented out state? (Can't remember what Gentoo calls it...) Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Bill Coughenour Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was just looking at the SystemImager site and wondering if it supports all of its functionality on RedHat 8 Gentoo? Thanks, Bill --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562alloc_id=6184op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562alloc_id=6184op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Mklibs error with systemimager-cvs (3.3.0)
Not sure, Peter. Haven't seen it myself yet. Are you running your 'make' command with a '-jN' option? Thus spake Peter Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): mkdir -m 755 -p /home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries/usr/share/discover install -m 644 /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/discover-data-2.2004.04.09/pci.lst /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/discover-data-2.2004.04.09/pcmcia.lst /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/discover-data-2.2004.04.09/usb.lst /home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries/usr/share/discover # copy over libnss files for non-uclibc arches # (mklibs doesn't automatically pull these in) # # Use the mklibs script from Debian to find and copy libraries and # any soft links. Note: This does not require PIC libraries -- it will # copy standard libraries if it can't find a PIC equivalent. -BEF- # cd /home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries /usr/bin/python /home/pmueller/systemimager/initrd_source/mklibs \ -L /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/parted-1.6.5/libparted/.libs:/home/pmueller/ systemimager/src/discover-1.5/lib/.libs -v -d lib bin/* sbin/* File /home/pmueller/systemimager/initrd_source/mklibs, line 230 print outfd, Usage: mklibs [OPTION]... -d DEST FILE ... ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax make: *** [/home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries.tar.gz] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] systemimager]$ Any ideas? I'm not a programmer; this looks greek to me. I'll try a previous version for now. P --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] ext2/ext3 partition labels
Watch for an unstable release (3.3.0) in the next few days. It includes pre-script and post-script support. This will allow you to drop a post-script into /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/post-scripts/ that you could use to change the labels of your filesystems, for example. No need to touch the .master script. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Benjamin Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We have systems where we used the ext3fs labels for doing a tivo-like partition-swap when we upgrade software on our boxes. (ie, fstab stays the same, but we change the label for hda1 and hda2 based on how an upgrade went). It appears that systemimager is ignoring our labels (and the fstab, and the autoinstallscript.conf) and setting the labels to the path they're mounted on, when imaging new systems, rather than our custom labels. Is there a way to set custom partition labels without editing the .master script directly? Am I missing something in how labels are determined? We have another image server that Does The Right Thing, but it's been so long since we've touched it, no one remembers whether we hand-hacked the master script or not. I'm inclined to say no because we pull images to it regularly and everything works as it should... Any ideas? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
