perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Roman Lapacz <>]

José Patiño wrote:
> Good Morning to All,
Hi Jose,
> I have a server using Ubuntu 7.10 and when I install PerfSONAR with 
> Debian packages using "dpkg -i" command, all files are copied on 
> "/opt/perfsonar" directory. But now, I need to install it on 
> Production and I have some restrictions to create this directory on 
> Production Servers, only I can use "/home/perfsonar" directory to 
> perform all installations.
>
> Is there any way to change default directory of PerfSONAR's 
> installation of debian packages from /opt/perfsonar to another 
> directory on this server??. is there any procedure explaining how to 
> perform this??.

Generally, the path are statically encoded in the installation 
procedure. So the answer is no but there could be a solution. Try to use 
chroot command to create a sandbox to run the service in it. I didn't 
try it but I think it should work.

Roman


> Thanks in Advance for your support.
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> *José Patiño B.*
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