Quattor over Red-Hat derivatives Howto

(Quelle: http://tomas.andago.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/QuattorHowTo)

Installing and configuring Quattor is easy following the rules provided by the document Quattor Installation Guide and User Guide, hosted at http://isscvs.cern.ch:8180/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/elfms/quattor/documentation/installation-guide/index.html?content-type=text/html&cvsroot=elfms&only_with_tag=HEAD

These are just notes to solve possible problems that might arise when using a Red Hat derivative distribution.

Scientific Linux comes with apt-get and yum installed, so you don’t have to install apt-get by hand. For Fedora and Red Hat, there’s a special version of apt-get for rpm located at [http://apt.freshrpms.net/] that lets you install Quattor in an easy way adding the following line to the sources.list file:

rpm http://quattorsw.web.cern.ch/quattorsw/software/quattor apt/1.1.X/i386 quattor_sl3
 

For Red Hat 9:
At the time of writing, there’s a problem with the default repository that won’t let you install any Red Hat package from apt-get (for example, if you want to use synaptic). I haven’t found another unnoficial apt-get repository for Red Hat 9 but using a Fedora Core 1 repository seems to work. Anyway, the only repository needed to install Quattor is the one provided by the CERN.

These are the problems found when installing in Fedora Core 3:

• Some problems may arise before updating Fedora.
  • There is a problem with SELinux, because it might restrict the httpd privileges. As a consequence, it fails to write the /var/log/cdb.log file and returns an Error 500. To workaround this, you can disable SELinux.
• There might be a problem with the IO::Socket Perl package provided by Fedora. This can be solved installing it with CPAN:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell
.....
cpan>install IO::Socket

Take care: In swrep-client.conf file, the owner of the repository must be swrep.

Make sure that, in the swrep-client.conf file, there is the following line:

repository = swrep@<host>

where <host> is the name of the host that has the repository.

Also, the /var/swrep/.ssh directory and it’s content, must belong to the swrep user and group and only the swrep user can read or write it:

# pwd
/var/swrep/.ssh

# ls -la
total 20
drwx------  2 swrep swrep 4096 ene 12 16:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 swrep swrep 4096 ene 10 19:38 ..
-rw-------  1 swrep swrep  538 ene 12 16:34 authorized_keys

SPMA depends on rpmt that depends on rpm 4.2. As Fedora Core 3 comes with RPM 4.3, it can’t be directly installed.