Re: [Oscar-devel] OPD scripts

[Bernard Li <bl...@bc...>]

All right Jeremey - thanks for the input!

The package should be done pretty soon...  just have to undergo some 
testing :>

Cheers,

Bernard

Jeremy Enos wrote:

> At 03:58 PM 10/17/2003, Bernard Li wrote:
> 
>> Hey Jeremy:
>>
>> The ganglia RPM is exhibiting 'bad rpm behaviour' as it starts up the 
>> daemon as soon as it is installed...  I was wondering if we can 
>> potentially re-package the RPM so that it doesn't do that?
>>
>> I guess it's not so bad to copy the config file over then re-start the 
>> daemon, but with ganglia, the problem is it would start the daemons up 
>> naming the cluster/grid 'unspecified' and thus may somewhat screw up 
>> the stats - but it's not a big big deal I suppose.
>>
>> Right now the scripts I'm using are post_configure and post_clients.
> 
> 
> Sounds good...  you could always re-package Ganglia to remedy the 
> problem, but that would of course incur an extra maintenance effort on 
> yourself for each new version.  I wouldn't do it.
> Sounds kind of dumb for the Ganglia rpm to start off the daemon in 
> general (writing out screwed up stats), when it can't possibly be 
> configured ahead of time in the average installation.  Either way you 
> decide, I've always found it nicest to leave the rpm packaging to 
> someone else if it's possible.
> 
>         Jeremy
> 
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>> Jeremy Enos wrote:
>>
>>> At 02:25 PM 10/17/2003, Bernard Li wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trying to figure out which is the most suitable script(s) to write 
>>>> for configuring ganglia.  There isn't really much configuration that 
>>>> needs to be done, more like 'cosmetic' things like names and stuff.  
>>>> I would like to actually generate the config files before the RPMs 
>>>> get installed, so that when the daemon starts up it has the correct 
>>>> config files.
>>>>
>>>> Would the best script to write the config files be the 'setup' script?
>>>
>>>
>>> No... the setup script is used somewhat rarely... kind of an "only if 
>>> I must" policy.  Also typical- applications rpms install the config 
>>> files, so it's tough to configure before the rpm gets installed.  
>>> Ideally, the rpm behaves to standard and doesn't start/stop processes 
>>> (this is bad rpm behavior), and you would have a chance to modify the 
>>> config files before the daemon starts.  Worst case, the rpm starts 
>>> the daemon... you can still simply modify the config files and 
>>> restart the daemon.  I think that's preferable to having the setup 
>>> script generate a file outside of rpm.
>>>         Jeremy
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Bernard
>>>>
>>>>
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