#5083: Bestman not properly preserving configuration?

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Mon Mar 23 17:36:11 2009

roy - Ticket created

Subject:	Bestman not properly preserving configuration?
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:35:45 -0500
To:	Alain Roy via RT <vdt-support@OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG>
From:	Alain Roy <roy@cs.wisc.edu>

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We've had a complaint about Bestman not properly preserving
configuration. We should investigate and fix any problems that exist.

-alain

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Peter Doherty <doherty@crystal.harvard.edu>
> Date: March 20, 2009 10:57:25 AM CDT
> To: VDT-DISCUSS@OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG
> Subject: Recent VDT update broke my SE
>
> Hi
>
> I recently did a VDT update on a cluster that admittedly was behind
> in it's version. I updated from 1.10.1k to the current version of
> 1.10.1u.
>
> Most things ran smoothly, but Bestman had some issues. After the
> update, Bestman had ignored the previous configuration, and was
> running with just the basic settings, the bestman.rc file had been
> overwritten.
> And secondly, the osg-rsv probes were no longer probing the SRM.
> I had to restore the bestman.rc file, and reconfigure the osg-rsv
> probes (including the settings for the directory paths for the SE,
> and the port is was running on)
>
> I'm wondering if something in my config.ini is incorrect that caused
> these two packages to act like there wasn't an SE installed, and
> just proceed as such.
>
> Everything is running okay now, but I'd like to figure out what
> happened so that when the next update comes out, I don't have to go
> through all the steps it took to get it running again.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

#	Tue Mar 24 15:10:20 2009	roy - Priority changed from (no value) to '3'

#	Tue Mar 24 15:10:20 2009	roy - Fix scheduled CUR added

#	Tue Mar 31 13:50:02 2009	kronenfe - Taken

#	Thu Apr 02 09:48:35 2009	kronenfe - Correspondence added		[Reply]
	Download (untitled) / with headers text/plain 236b #5083 - Fixed some problems in how the conf directory is preserved. - Make a backup copy of bestman.rc if it exists before we call Bestman's configure script. This can be used to revert back to previous settings after an update.

#	Thu Apr 02 09:48:35 2009	RT_System - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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Thu Apr 02 09:50:39 2009

kronenfe - Comments added

[Reply]

Subject:	[vdt-support #5083] SVN commit, rev 8992
To:	vdt-support@cs.wisc.edu
From:	kronenfe@cs.wisc.edu

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Commit comment:
Tim pointed out that when preserving the bestman.rc file, "cp -p" should be used
instead of just "cp"

Changed files:
U vdt/branches/vdt-1.10.1-gums-prima/Configure-Bestman/vdt/setup/configure_bestman

To generate a diff:
svn diff -c 8992 file:///p/vdt/workspace/svn

#	Sun Aug 23 14:44:26 2009	kronenfe - Priority changed from '3' to '-3'