[Swift-devel] kickstart on regular sites

[Ian Foster]

It isn't?

:-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:06:39 
To:Ian Foster <foster at mcs.anl.gov>
Cc:Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk>, swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] kickstart on regular sites


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 (?).
> >
> >   
>