Some Globus 4 Notes

* Install as normal. Note however that all of the Globus WS stuff depends up on a postgres DB being properly configured. See the instructions
under RFT manual at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.0/admin/docbook/ch10.html. If you don't get this running, then your globus
remote command executions will work but they will not clean up properly and so will never exit.

* TO RESTART POSTGRES SERVER: this is needed to do anything with the ws-gram container. The steps are these:
1. Login to gf1 as the user "postgres".
2. Use the installation in the directory /usr/local/pgsql. There is another installation at /var/lib that should be ignored.
3. Set this environment variable: export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data.
4. Run the command "/usr/bin/pg_ctl start -o -i" as the postgres user. If everything is OK, you will get something like this:

bash-2.05b$ pg_ctl start -o -i
pg_ctl: Another postmaster may be running. Trying to start postmaster anyway.
LOG: database system was interrupted at 2005-06-08 18:13:55 EST
LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/873128
LOG: redo record is at 0/873128; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
LOG: next transaction id: 1543; next oid: 25213
LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
LOG: ReadRecord: record with zero length at 0/873168
LOG: redo is not required
postmaster successfully started
bash-2.05b$ LOG: database system is ready


5. Test to make sure the rftDatabase is running correctly. Use the command "psql rftDatabase". You should see


bash-2.05b$ psql rftDatabase
Welcome to psql 7.3.4-RH, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

rftDatabase=#


6. The GF1 database is configured to work with the user "manacar" so su manacar. Set up your globus environment as necessary:
"export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/home/globus/nmi-all-7.0-red9/" and then "source $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus-user-env.sh".

7. Start the container as user manacar: "globus-start-container".