[Swift-devel] kickstart on regular sites

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Jul 18 17:06:39 CDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 16:46 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
> The set of sites we run on is so small, and the amount of time we spend 
> saying "we don't know exactly what happened because kickstart wasn't 
> installed" so large, that maybe we should do this :0(

Good point. It's probably less than the time I spend on email replies
saying that kicstart is not going to be the answer to all our problems.

Mihael

> 
> Note that TG has a software catalog (MDS based) for just this sort of 
> information
> 
> Ben Clifford wrote:
> > There was some discussion many months ago about installing kickstart on 
> > the sites that our users use regularly; and cataloging that information in 
> > the same standard site catalog that lists all the sites we have.
> >
> > That never happened though, for whatever reason.
> >
> > It might be useful to do that though; I think any OSG site will have it 
> > installated already as part of the OSG standard software stack (?).
> >
> >   
> 




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