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author | Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com> | 2014-04-16 10:16:29 -0500 |
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committer | Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com> | 2014-04-16 10:16:29 -0500 |
commit | d510e918e41b7b2b7b0b9351a40eab2794b49c83 (patch) | |
tree | 250715ab112c10612ee131925ad07b68591c09f3 /doc/server | |
parent | 9ebdcdb2f7718ae9203b20dafea4bca9f310ed75 (diff) | |
parent | 24a261f842a4bc1d4dc125fad0f43343d5d4c9d8 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint' into master
Signed-off-by: Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com>
Conflicts:
doc/appendix/guides/import-existing-ssh-keys.txt
misc/bcfg2.spec
src/lib/Bcfg2/Client/Tools/VCS.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Client/Tools/YUM.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Encryption.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Reporting/Collector.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Reporting/Storage/DjangoORM.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Core.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/FileMonitor/__init__.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Lint/RequiredAttrs.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Plugin/helpers.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Metadata.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Packages/Yum.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Packages/__init__.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/settings.py
src/sbin/bcfg2-crypt
src/sbin/bcfg2-reports
src/sbin/bcfg2-yum-helper
testsuite/Testsrc/Testlib/TestClient/TestTools/TestPOSIX/TestAugeas.py
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/server')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/server/configuration.txt | 43 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/server/plugins/generators/sshbase.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 52 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/server/configuration.txt b/doc/server/configuration.txt index d3fa42601..79d732f6d 100644 --- a/doc/server/configuration.txt +++ b/doc/server/configuration.txt @@ -216,3 +216,46 @@ To select which backend to use, set the ``backend`` option in the * ``best`` (the default; currently the same as ``builtin``) ``best`` may change in future releases. + +Multiprocessing core configuration +---------------------------------- + +If you use the multiprocessing core, there are other bits you may wish +to twiddle. + +By default, the server spawns as many children as the host has CPUs. +(This is determined by ``multiprocessing.cpu_count()``.) To change +this, set: + +.. code-block:: ini + + [server] + children = 4 + +The optimal number of children may vary depending on your workload. +For instance, if you are using :ref:`native yum +library support <native-yum-libraries>`, then a separate process is +spawned for each client to resolve its package dependencies, so +keeping the children at or below the CPU count is likely a good idea. +If you're not using native yum library support, though, you may wish +to oversubscribe the core slightly. It's recommended that you test +various configurations and use what works best for your workload. + +Secondly, if ``tmpwatch`` is enabled, you must either disable it or +exclude the pattern ``/tmp/pymp-\*``. For instance, on RHEL or CentOS +you may have a line like the following in +``/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch``: + +.. code-block:: bash + + /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix -x /tmp/.font-unix \ + -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix 240 /tmp + +You would need to add ``-X /tmp/pymp-\*`` to it, like so: + +.. code-block:: bash + + /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix -x /tmp/.font-unix \ + -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix -X /tmp/pymp-\* 240 /tmp + +See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058310 for more information. diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt index c5ff699a7..86478a5ae 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/rules.txt @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ child ``<ACL>`` tags. For instance: mode="0775"> <ACL type="default" scope="user" user="foouser" perms="rw"/> <ACL type="default" scope="group" group="users" perms="rx"/> + <ACL type="default" scope="other" perms="r"/> </Path> .. xml:element:: ACL @@ -285,6 +286,9 @@ It is not currently possible to manually set an effective rights mask; the mask will be automatically calculated from the given ACLs when they are applied. +For directories either no default ACL entries or at least an entry for +the owner, owning group and other must be defined. + Note that it is possible to set ACLs that demand different permissions on a file than those specified in the ``perms`` attribute on the ``Path`` tag. For instance: diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/sshbase.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/sshbase.txt index 641b9c598..4578d5810 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/sshbase.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/sshbase.txt @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ .. -*- mode: rst -*- +.. vim: ft=rst .. _server-plugins-generators-sshbase: @@ -13,8 +14,9 @@ record for the current system. It has two functions: -* Generating new ssh keys -- When a client requests a dsa, rsa, or v1 key, - and there is no existing key in the repository, one is generated. +* Generating new ssh keys -- When a client requests a ecdsa, dsa, rsa, + or v1 key, and there is no existing key in the repository, one is + generated. * Maintaining the ``ssh_known_hosts`` file -- all current known public keys (and extra public key stores) are integrated into a single @@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ Interacting with SSHbase ``<repo>/SSHbase/<key filename>.H_<hostname>`` * Pre-seeding can also be performed using ``bcfg2-admin pull - ConfigFile /name/of/ssh/key`` + Path /name/of/ssh/key`` * Revoking existing keys -- deleting ``<repo>/SSHbase/\*.H_<hostname>`` will remove keys for an existing |