perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Gijs,

Out of curiosity, why do you prefer not to install and run it in 
/home/perfsonar by default?

Loukik.


Gijs Molenaar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tested our MA with a standard fedora8 installation with the fedora8
> tomcat5 and java icedtea 1.7.0. It works. I know, icedtea quite sucks,
> but I just want to make the installation process as easy as possible.
> Our installation process is now:
>
> * download nfdump RPM
> * download perfsonar-flowma-sa RPM
> * rpm -i nfdump-<version>.rpm perfsonar-flowma-sa-<version>.rpm
> * edit
> /var/lib/tomcat/webapps/flowsa-ma/WEB-INF/classes/perfsonar/conf/service.properties
> * /etc/init.d/flowma-nfcapd start
> * done
>
> I've created a spec file that creates a fedora8 RPM which can be
> installed on the clean fedora8 box which works out-of-the box. It
> doesn't install in /home/perfsonar but in the fedora8 tomcat webapps
> folder, and it sets all the permissions correctly.
>
> I want to test the RPM a little more before I do a real release for
> testing, but if you are interested:
> http://gijs.pythonic.nl/perfsonar/fedora8/perfsonar-flowsa-ma-0.9.1-1.noarch.rpm
>
> the spec file can be found here:
> https://svn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/trunk/surfnet_java-flowsa-ma/contrib/flow-ma.specs
>
> Using the default java & tomcat makes life so much easier.
>
> Next week I will test this RPM on red hat enterprise, after that I want
> to try to create a fedora 8 rrd-ma RPM. Anyone tried this already with
> tomcat5 & icedtea?
>
> I know everyone is using tomcat6 already, but there is no distribution
> (tried ubuntu 7.10 & 8.04, fc8, centos5, rhel5) that gives possibility
> to install this.
>
>   


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