Green server build

Ti Leggett leggett at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Aug 27 16:06:59 CDT 2002


I also just put gcc-3.2 in /my/packages/gcc-3.2

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 11:54, Ti Leggett wrote:
> Alrighty, I *think* the green server build is a go. If you want to login
> to one of the green servers, please try vv2.mcs.anl.gov and hammer away
> at it. And please let me know if there are any problems or if you really
> dig it.
> 
> Here's what it has:
> 
> - Globus-2.0 installed in /my/packages/globus (set GLOBUS_LOCATION
> there)
> - GPT-1.0 installed in /my/packages/gpt (set GPT_LOCATION there)
> - python1.5 and python2.2
> - wxGTK and wxPython
> - pyGlobus-0.9.6 installed in /my/packages/pyglobus, but there's a link
> to it from /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyGlobus so you shouldn't
> have to do anything special to use it
> - apache with mod_perl, mod_python, mod_ssl, mod_dav, and php. (this
> still needs to be configured but it should be working and running)
> - MySQL with perl, python, and php bindings (if you want a database let
> me know and I'll create it)
> - PostgreSQL with perl, python, and php bindings (if you want a database
> created let me know)
> - sudo (with a *very* limited set of people authorized for it)
> - Group writeable local disk at /disks/space0 (this is where you should
> put files that you want anyone to be able to use)
> - There is no NFS (Yeah!)
> - Home filesystems are mounted via samba from glacier at login time, so
> that means your environment will look the same as on green machines,
> *BUT* no other users home dirs are available unless they are logged.
> This is stronger incentive to use the group writeable storage space.
> - I'm trying to make these machines single purpose servers or at the
> very most serving several coupled or closely related services. Hopefully
> this will aid in finding projects and code a little easier. i.e., If
> you're looking for VV2 code a good place to look would be
> vv2:/disks/space0
> - ADSM backup is on the way but not there yet.
> - There's possibly other things that might be installed as well that I
> forgot, a good thing to do might be to do a "rpm -qa | sort | less" to
> see what all is installed. My aim is install packages either via RPM or
> in /my/packages so that it makes finding things much easier.
> 
> One other note on the databases. The databases on each machine are meant
> for local development testing (doesn't mean it has to be only for that).
> If you need a production database, I'd suggest asking systems for one on
> yeah.mcs.anl.gov.
> 





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