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Diskless client installation
In the RHEL documentation (Chapter 4. "Diskless Environments", item #4) there is an in-accuracy in the rsync syntax usage. Instead of: rsync -a -e ssh golden_client:/ /diskless/whatever/root/ Use the following syntax which does not produce error messages: rsync -v -a -e ssh --exclude='/sys/*' --exclude='/proc/*' golden_client:/ /diskless/whatever/root/ Other comments (that I find critial in my experience): 1) Make sure the following RPM is installed in the client: busybox-anaconda (In my CentOS4.4 case it is: busybox-anaconda-1.00.rc1-5.x86_64.rpm) 2) Make sure there are no active NFS mounted partitions on the client before executing 'rsync'. 3) Make sure that the following 2 directories exist: /tftpboot/linux-install/msgs/ /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg and that in the tftp definition file under /etc/xinted.d/tftp the following line is set correctly: server_args = -s /tftpboot/linux-install 4) If pxelinux.0 does not exist under /tftp...
Howto add Java Plugin to Firefox on Linux
Although this is probably documented in numerous sites, here is my summary: 1) Install the JRE package from SUN (download and then 'chmod u+x' to the *.bin file). 2) cd to /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.5/plugins 3) Type: [root@guydell plugins]# ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so [root@guydell plugins]# ls -l total 36 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 9 17:16 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14288 Jul 29 2006 libnullplugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7564 Jul 29 2006 libunixprintplugin.so
Invitation to the next IGT HPC Work group meeting
Monday, March 26th, 2007 IGT Offices, Maskit 4, 5th Floor, Hertzliya Agenda: 14:00-14:15: OPENING - Avner & Guy 14:15-14:50: PPF, JAVA, OPEN-SOURCE AND GRID: BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL GRID Speaker: Laurent Cohen, ILOG, Inc. and JPPF founder Abstract: Traditional Grid architectures rely on a concept of job submission that comes with a set of constraints regarding the nature of the compute nodes, the ease of deployment of the jobs, and the effort required to use the Grid, which could otherwise be utilized to work on the problems to solve. JPPF offers an alternative, enabling a true heterogeneous nature of the Grid components, an ease of use that permits ...
Summary of the IGT HPC Work group first year
The following two slides give a perspective of the IGT HPC Work group activity during its first year. There were 4 meetings with an average number of about 20 attendees. If your company/research group would like to give a presentation in this forum please contact me.
OpenVPN my first trial
This note describes establishing VPN connection between my laptop and my remote Linux server. I was inspired by the first example in " Casting Your Net with OpenVPN " by Paul Duncan article that was published in the Linux Magazine. First I created configuration files at both ends, see screen dump for the client configure file: Then I started OpenVPN on both computers: and similarly at the remote server: After establishing the connection, I could connect via my private network: I did SSH from my client (10.55.55.2) to my server (10.55.55.1):