perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Bill Owens <>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 04:26:48PM +0000, John Simpkins wrote:
>    Hi all,
>    I'm writing to start a conversation about experiences with 4.0 RC1 on
>    CentOS 7 so far. For context, I just got my first 4.0 host running
>    perfsonar-toolkit on a VM using CentOS 7 minimal. Here are the things I
>    found in the course of installation:
>    1. selinux set to permissive only requires modification of the conf file,
>    the echo command fails

Saw that too (not sure whether the echo command should work, but /selinux 
doesn't exist).

>    2. iptables does not allow new http or https connections with the default
>    ruleset following toolkit installation

I haven't seen that, but I will note that the instructions are wrong for 
running /usr/lib/perfsonar/scripts/configure_firewall, since you need to have 
'install' as the command in order for it to do anything. With that added, it 
works correctly.

I've now run into an inability to create a web admin user because the psadmin 
group doesn't exist. I'm tempted to create it manually but I feel like 
something must have gone wrong earlier and I don't want to bypass that if 
there's a step that I missed. 

Bill.