perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi Kathy,

The file /etc/bwctld/bwctld.keys needs to be moved to /etc/bwctl-server/bwctl-server.keys. It should have been done by the RPM but looks like that didn’t happen. Updated RPM incoming that will fix it, though you can also make the move by hand.

Thanks,

Andy

On March 22, 2016 at 8:43:09 AM, Kathy Benninger () wrote:

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
>
>