middleware:Globus/420/server/prepare/notes
From Dgiref
- Operating system
- Scientific Linux v.4.8 64 bit
Optimizing the configuration:
Use minimal operating system installation without firewall. To verify installed packages use the command
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rpm -qa | grep package_name
Install the following additional packages:
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yum -y install wget yum rpm make gcc gcc-c++ tar sed zlib openssl
After the installation is complete, turn off any unnecessary services (like gpm, sendmail, cups, haldaemon, messagebus, pcmcia, anacron, atd) with the following command:
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chkconfig <SERVICE> off
Configure the following settings for the server:
- proxy
- ntp
- script:/etc/resolv.conf
- configure the postgres update
- Additional Software
- Torque and maui client
- java SDK > 1.5.0 (from Sun, IBM, HP, or BEA (do not use GCJ))
- ant 1.6.5
To make all libraries from ant available do the following as root:
$ cd /usr/share/ant/lib $ ln -s /usr/share/java/ant.jar ant.jar $ ln -s /usr/share/java/ant-launcher.jar ant-launcher.jar
- PostgreSQL 8.1.9 (postgresql, postgresql-libs, postgresql-server)
- Perl 5.8.8 (with XML::PARSER)
- sudo
