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Hi, Peter!

> > Artem and I do the restart and also do some of the configuration of the
> > xrootds but setting up a release so that it gets distributed by taylor
> > is done by Andy.
>
>   Ok, this is different from what Andy, Chuck and I agreed. What we
> wanted was that (a) someone (me) makes the releases and (b) you/Artem
> have complete control over distributing them with taylor and starting them
> on machines at SLAC. This takes Andy completely out of the operational
> loop. We need to fix that.

It's not a good practice, IMHO. One of our problems is that chances that
new release doesn't work are high, and Andy needs to be around during
restart to understand what's going on.

Artem.

>
> > > > - I can get a checksum only from bbrprod05. Do you know what the
> > > > problem is?
> > >
> > >   There is clearly a big mess for the versions. I see:
> > >
> > >   bbrprod01  20041022-0258
> > >   bbrprod02  20040830-0105
> > >   bbrprod03  20040830-0105
> > >   bbrprod04  20040830-0105
> > >   bbrprod05  20041022-0258
> > >
> > > and of course I've no idea if they have all been started with the new
> > > version of the config file which includes the external checksum script.
> > >
> > >   Actually, you can always check the versions in Ganglia:
> > >
> > >   http://www-gmon.slac.stanford.edu:8080/ganglia/?m=xrootd_version&r=hour&s=by%2520hostname&c=xrootd-prod&h=&sh=1&hc=4
> > >
> > >   Wilko, could you please sort this out?
> > >
> > > > There is a test perl script at
> > > > /afs/slac.stanford.edu/u/br/bbrskim/releases/test-16.0.1a/workdir/
> > > > testPAdmin.pl
> > > > which exercises the functionality which we need.
> > > >
> > > > BTW: we gave up to get it to work using olb on the time scale of next
> > > > week. We will be happy if the functionality required by testPAdmin.pl
> > > > works for all 5 bbrprod0X machines.
> > >
> > >   I'll take a look at it once they start the latest version of the
> > > server (20041118-0948) on all 5 machines with the config file containing
> > > the directive with the external checksum script.
> > >
> > >   BTW, the fact that you are using your own compiled version of (HEAD of) the
> > > client instead of the version installed in afs is also a bit confusing. I'll
> > > try to sort out the debug version for linux to help this along.
> > >
> > >                                  thanks,
> > >                                    Pete
> > >
>
>
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