[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] getting brick_ctl.sh to work

[Thomas Berezansky]

Some of the path stuff you have to put elsewhere in the .bashrc file  
on the drones. Near the top. Before it bails because you aren't in an  
interactive session.

Could that be what is being missed here?

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org>:

> Hmm, I've never had to directly modify the brick_ctl.sh control  
> script or use /etc/profile as Chris describes.  Only have the two  
> paths to the opensrf user's .bashrc.
>
> Perhaps it's only balking that error because they don't have the  
> ssh-key entry setup between head and drones and so it can't locate  
> osrf_ctl.sh on the drones due to failure to connect.
>
> Let us know what you discover Sue.
>
> -- Ben
>
> On May 10, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote:
>
>> Hi Sue,
>>
>>> I am having problems getting the brick_ctl.sh script to work. When I
>>> issue the command it asked for the password for opensrf on the drones
>>> and then says it cannot find osrf_ctl.sh. I put the PERL5Lib and PATH
>>> at the beginning of .bashrc file on the drones. I have the /openils on
>>> a NFS share from the brick head to the drones. I am running Evergreen
>>> 2_1_beta and Opensrf 2_0.Any idea what else I am missing?
>>
>> For the opensrf password issue, you can take these steps (as  
>> opensrf on the head/master server):
>>
>> ssh-keygen # follow the prompts and choose not to have a passphrase
>> ssh-copy-id <drone IP/hostname> # substituting each actual drone  
>> IP/hostname without brackets
>>
>> As for the other issue, brick_ctl.sh has this line:
>>
>> DRONE_BASE=". /etc/profile && osrf_ctl.sh -d $OSRF_PID_DIR -c $OSRF_CONFIG";
>>
>> which means that it will ignore opensrf's .bashrc and source  
>> /etc/profile instead, which means you should be able to add the  
>> PERL5LIB and PATH lines to /etc/profile on each drone, or you could  
>> modify brick_ctl.sh to not source /etc/profile (by removing ".  
>> /etc/profile &&" from the DRONE_BASE line).  There may be a  
>> recommended way to do this from Bill or one of the other  
>> developers, but those are my techniques. ;-)
>>
>> Hope that's helpful!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Chris Sharp
>> PINES Program Manager
>> Georgia Public Library Service
>> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
>> Atlanta, Georgia 30345
>> (404) 235-7147
>> csharp at georgialibraries.org
>> http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
>
>
> Benjamin Shum
> Open Source Software Coordinator
> Bibliomation, Inc.
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>