Worker Nodes Setup

Here are presented particularities of the WNs installations.

Debian v4 AMD64

• standard installation
• apt-get install lib32ssp0 lib32stdc++6

Debian v5 AMD64

• standard installation
• apt-get install lib32stdc++6
• issue with dpkg-dev solved with non-stable installation of: wget http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.14.26_all.deb followed by dpkg --install dpkg-dev... (see: https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=47891&from=search)

Mac OSX Leopard (v10.5.6+)

1. Install XCode v3 from provided disks or CERN Apple repository (verify the version)
2. condor UIDs are not needed inside condor configuration file(s)
3. (optional) create a symbolic link /usr/local/condor -> /opt/condor
4. Firewall should allow incoming connection to
   • condor_master
   • condor_startd
5. Automated startup of condor services during the boot process
   • place following files: CondorAutoStart, StarupParameters inside the directory /Library/StartupItems/CondorAutoStart
   • edit the CondorAutoStart with particularities of condor installation
6. file /sw/bin/dpkg-checkbuilddeps shold be patched, correct line: my $status=shift || "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status";

Fedora Core 8

1. Condor requires:
   • libstdc++.so.5 . To satisfy that a compatibility library needs to be installed: compat-libstdc++-33.i386
   • csh. To satisfy that an extra package needs to be installed: tcsh
2. modify the line inside /etc/issue file to: Fedora Core release 8 (Werewolf) otherwise the platform will be recongised as: "x86_fc_(Werewolf)"
3. It might be needed to pick a proper network interface in order to assure correct network address assignement (file: /etc/init.d/firstboot_setNET.sh)

-- MarianZUREK - 02 Mar 2009