If $HOME in fact points to different places on the crs nodes - and I have no doubt it does it means that the RCF philosofy is broken on the farms. The intentention is to haive all machine look identitcal in terms of software setup. Christian or some-one else can you give specifci cases and we will talk to Tony - as well as discussion the second (afs) issue ------------------------------------------------------ Flemming Videbaek Physics Department Brookhaven National Laboratory tlf: 631-344-4106 fax 631-344-1334 e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Holm Christensen" <cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk> To: <brahms-soft-l@bnl.gov> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:33 AM Subject: CRASH updates > Hi all, > > I made some changes to CRASH, and installed the new version on AFS. > > Version: 1.2.3 > CVS tag: CRASH-1-2-3 > > The most important changes: > > * When one wants to connect to the databases, you need to read > ${HOME}/.bratdbrc, since you have no way of interactively type in > the password on the farm. Now, /brahms/u/bramreco/.bratdbrc does > exist, but on some of the nodes on the farm (if not all), ${HOME} > points to /home/bramreco. Hence we need to copy > /brahms/u/bramreco/.bratdbrc to /home/bramreco/.bratdbrc. I think > this change of home directory is a fairly recent thing, since it > used to work with /brahms/u/bramreco/.bratdbrc. > > * The notify flag (-n/--notify) now works! It turned out to be a > really stupid mistake on my part. It can even send mail to > addresses out side of RCF e.g., your home email. In that way, it > should be much easier for users of the farm to get a feel of how the > jobs went, and the mailbox of bramreco shouldn't be filled. > > So I'd like to suggest thatm, when someone submits jobs on behalf of > others, they use the -n/--notify option to send emails pertaining to > the job, to the iser that requested the job. > > There still seems to be a problem, that I don't really understand. > Sometimes the jobs crashes, and the .err file contains the line > > sh: /afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new/lib/crash/bratmain.wrapper: No such file or directory > > Which is odd, since that file does infact exist. What is even more > odd, is that it somethimes happens on the same node that sh first > cannot find the file, and later on it can! See for example > > /brahms/data03/crash/bm/log/run004640seq030.[out,err] (succeded) > /brahms/data03/crash/bm/log/run004640seq009.err (failed) > > My initial feeling was, that it had to do with the AFS cache on the > nodes, but now I'm not so sure. I wonder if it has anything to do > with the increased number of crashes that Tony Chan was talking about. > Any ideas are more than welcome. > > >From the changelog: > ------------------- > 2001-11-16 Brahms Software Librarian <brahmlib@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov> > > * configure.in, scripts/bmsubmit.in: Fix and revision > > 2001-11-14 Brahms Software Librarian <brahmlib@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov> > > * configure.in: Bump revision > > * scripts/bratmain.wrapper.in: fix to home dir > > * scripts/bratmain.wrapper.in: > Fix if $HOME != /brahms/u/bramreco, so that /brahms/u/bramreco/.bratdbrc is > copied to ${HOME}. > > * config/brat.m4, config/debug.m4, config/root.m4: > Moved Autoconf macros to acinclude.m4 > > * acinclude.m4, configure.in: Bumped minor version number > Moved Autoconf macros to acinclude.m4 > > Yours, > > Christian Holm Christensen ------------------------------------------- > Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 28 82 16 23 > Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 > Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm >
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