[Swift-devel] Status of coasters

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:23 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
> On 2/13/09 9:17 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 08:59 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> >> -- Service submits via WS-GRAM. This should be tested, on sites where 
> >> WS-GRAM is working.
> >> This woild use jobmanager=gt2:gt4:{pbs/condor/sge}, and needs to be tested.
> >> For sites where WS-GRAM is not functional, I suggested we consider 
> >> configuring our own non-root WS-GRAM, ideally using already-installed 
> >> GT4 software, eg, from the OSG package on OSG and TG sites where its 
> >> installed. Mihael thought this would be considerable work. 
> > 
> > Not as much the amount of work, but:
> > 1. getting root on sites (if installed for multiple users)
> 
> I was thinking/hoping we could have a single setup script, which we'd 
> pre-install where required, that would configure and start a personal 
> WSRF container for the user. Which would be work for us to create, 
> install and maintain, but, if successful, would be transparent to the user.

You need root to configure sudo.

I also don't think you can easily automate the gt4 installation process.
There's manual configuration that needs to be done. I suggest installing
your own gt4 once to which I can submit jobs to get an idea of what's
involved.