Hi Will,

This approach is very good. We will use higgs08 for installation. Could 
you please setup the permission on it?

Thanks,

Neng

Will Maier via UW-HEP Help System wrote:
> Hi Sridhara and Annabelle-
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:10:39PM +0200, Sridhara Dasu wrote:
>   
>> I understand from Sau Lan that you would like automatic
>> installations from BNL of your software.  For automatic
>> installation one would be using grid tools, which work in AFS
>> without tokens from what I know using host based authentication.
>> You shouldn't run into token loss problem that you are hitting.
>> Dan (who is currently on vacation) or Will can confirm.
>>     
>
> That is correct. For the automatic CMSSW installations, we route the
> jobs to special machines that are given a IP-based ACL in AFS. Token
> corruption should not adversely affect this installation method.
> Since the IP ACL allows _any_ process on the installation machine to
> write into a given AFS area, we do not allow other (non-CMSSW
> installation) Condor jobs to run on these hosts.
>
> If this is the approach you'd like to take, we'll need to identify
> one or two dedicated machines for ATLAS installation.
>
> Thanks!
>
>