perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Kathy Benninger <>]

Sowmya,

The file
  /etc/bwctld/bwctld.keys
exists and contains a one-line entry with the username and key.

Kathy


On 3/21/2016 6:03 PM, Sowmya Balasubramanian wrote:
> Hi Kathy,
>
> Do you have a bwctl.keys file? If yes, does the username exist in the
> bwctl.keys file?
>
> Thanks,
> Sowmya
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Kathy Benninger 
> <
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
>
>     Since 4-Mar-16, the line
>           assign user </username/> root
>     in:
>          /etc/bwctl-server/bwctl-server.limits
>     prevents bwctl-server from starting on ps.sdsc.xsede.org
>     <http://ps.sdsc.xsede.org> .
>
>     The error that comes up when I try to manually start bwctl-server is:
>
>     
> [root@ps]#
>  /etc/init.d/bwctl-server start
>     /usr/bin/bwctld -c /etc/bwctl-server -R /var/run
>     bwctld[4434]: FILE=policy.c, LINE=669, Invalid user "</username/>".
>     bwctld[4434]: FILE=policy.c, LINE=967,
>     /etc/bwctl-server/bwctl-server.limits:4 Invalid file syntax
>     bwctld[4434]: FILE=bwctld.c, LINE=2355, PolicyInit failed. Exiting...
>     /etc/init.d/bwctl-server start: bwctl-server could not be started
>
>     Those same three error lines are repeated hourly in
>          /var/log/perfsonar/owamp_bwctl.log
>     bwctld[4434]: FILE=policy.c, LINE=669, Invalid user "</username/>".
>     bwctld[4434]: FILE=policy.c, LINE=967,
>     /etc/bwctl-server/bwctl-server.limits:4 Invalid file syntax
>     bwctld[4434]: FILE=bwctld.c, LINE=2355, PolicyInit failed. Exiting...
>
>     I don't see an error in the file syntax and it had been working fine for
>     many months (or years).
>
>     I've commented out the user line in the bwctl-server.limits file for now
>     to restore operation.
>
>     On the homepage:
>        Toolkit version              3.5.1.2
>        Toolkit RPM version     3.5.1.2-1
>
>     What needs to be done to fix the problem?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Kathy