[Swift-devel] Status of coasters

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:40 -0600, Tim Freeman wrote:
> > 
> > You need root to configure sudo.
> 
> Why would you need sudo for gram if it mapped to the same account?

I assumed that if we support multiple users, we do so properly.

> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> For non-gram, there's an auto script here:
> 
>     http://workspace.globus.org/vm/TP2.2/admin/quickstart.html#auto-container
> 
> The questions it asks users (is this the right hostname? etc) could also be
> scripted.
> 
> Getting from there to GRAM4 auto-configuration should not be too much of a step
> (the nimbus contextualization scripts have done it for gram4).

Thanks. We should then try this.