perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Szymon Trocha <>]

W dniu 2015-02-03 o 15:23, Winnie Lacesso pisze:
> Greetings Szymon Trocha!
>
> Well if you look back a bit you know I'm posting to the list about a
> Latency box that yum-updated from v3.3 to v3.4 & broke. And the most
> recent Enlightenment was that altho the *buoy* services were left enabled
> (aparently) after this upgrade, they're not needed. And they may have been
> involved in the most recent PAIN = 0% inodes free & a disk full of couple
> hundred GB of teeny tiny zillions of files = much PITA to clean up.
> (Or they may not have.)
>
> So, printed copy of most recent doc:
> 2.7 Updating the Toolkit
> 2.7.1 Manually updaing with Yum. (Yup, we did this).
> 2.7.2. Automatic updates (good, now enabled)
> 2.7.3. Migrating from a 3.3.2 LiveCD/LiveUSB (nope, we did not do)
> 2.7.4 Special Upgrade Notes
>   . Updates from versions older than 3.3. are not currently supported.
>     Not relevant to my problem.
>   . When upgrading... archived data auto migrated... Not relevant.
>   . when upgrade from versions older than 3.4, auto-updates enabled. good.
>   . (snip) may be asked to create a new user. (Did that.)
>
> So nowhere in there is: why are v3.3 services left enabled after the yum
> update to v3.4, is this a bug? What exactly is the list of services that
> *should* be chkconfig'd on for a Latency box & for a Bandwidth box?
> Not as in sec 2.4 via the web interface, but from cli:
> chkconfig --list | sort | grep :on
> List the perfsonar services for both Latency & Bandwidth please!
> So if we find some obvious perfsonar ones list NOT on that list, we know
> there is some config problem.
>
> Also there's only 1 perfsonar-installed crontab mentioned in doc:
> /etc/cron.d/cron-mesh_config_agent
> But 4 others are installed (all had to be disabled while trying to clean
> up this poor troubled Latency box)
> /etc/cron.hourly/logscraper.cron
> /etc/cron.d/cron-clean_esmond_db
> /etc/cron.d/cron-owamp_cleaner
> /etc/cron.d/cron-service_watcher
>
> That they exist & what they do should be documented. IMHO.

Hi Winnie,

I have created an issue for this: 
https://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/issues/detail?id=1071

Regards,

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Szymon Trocha

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