Re: [xcat-user] rpower on tries to deactivate volume group

2018-06-18 Thread Matthias Merk
Hi Version 2.13.4 (git commit 6ee3741498768994e4bb10d2a77c9699bcabde90, built Tue May 16 10:03:13 EDT 2017) This is a Management Node Running on SLES11.4 The vmhost is SLES12.3 -- Matthias Merk "Mark Gurevich" schrieb am 18.06.2018 19:02:23: > Von: "Mark Gurevich" > An: xCAT Users Mailing

Re: [xcat-user] What is the best way for changing/maintain users/groups/passwords for the computing nodes?

2018-06-18 Thread Kevin Keane
The system key will only work to set up one user (usually root). For ordinary users, you can use synchronization to copy the group/shadow/passwd files, but that's usually a bad idea because it also clobbers the root password, and it requires resyncing (or even rebooting compute nodes) every time a

Re: [xcat-user] rpower on tries to deactivate volume group

2018-06-18 Thread Mark Gurevich
Not sure what is going on yet. But what version of xCAT? (lsxcatd -a) Mark Gurevich Poughkeepsie Development Lab HPC Software Development - xCAT "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein From: Matthias Merk To: xCAT Users Mai

[xcat-user] What is the best way for changing/maintain users/groups/passwords for the computing nodes?

2018-06-18 Thread Daniel Hilst Selli
Hi! I had a problem where I couldn't login to a computing node with the password contained at system key of passwd table. I search in the internet for options on setting password for xcat. The documentation says chtab key=system passwd.username=root passwd.password=abc123 But I don't really u

[xcat-user] rpower on tries to deactivate volume group

2018-06-18 Thread Matthias Merk
Hi everyone, I ran into this behavior last week and was wondering if anyone experienced this before: # rpower lnx0352b on produces this error: Jun 8 09:27:43 lnx0001a xcat[26018]: xCAT: Allowing rpower to lnx0352b on for ruxi003 from loopback Jun 8 09:27:53 lnx0001a xcat[26030]: xcatd: kvm

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

2018-06-18 Thread Jeff Berry
Hi everyone, thanks for the pointers. I decided to go back to the very beginning and did a clean reinstall of xcat: Version 2.14.1 (git commit 70d6e7f93cc9714a127c22df2e7ca53d4996a34c, built Fri Jun 1 03:00:53 EDT 2018) then I walked through the documentation - https://xcat-docs.readthedocs