Automatic Installation in VDT 1.2.0

Installation questions

In the process of normal installation of VDT, the user is asked several questions, for example:

• Do you agree to the licences?
• Would you like to enable Globus Gatekeeper daemon?
• etc..

Pre-answering question

In VDT 1.2.0 any one or more of the VDT installation questions can be answered pre-emptively by setting appropriate environment variables beforehand. This allows a fully automatic installation without user intervention. This can be done in one of two ways:

• Setting the environment variables manually before calling pacman -get ...
• Setting entries in $VDT_LOCATION/vdt-questions.sh

Environment Variables

The following table shows the environment variables that can be set to pre-answer the question they correspond to.

Question	Variable	Possible Values
Do you agree to the licenses?	VDTSETUP_AGREE_TO_LICENCES	y (yes) n (no)
Would you like to (enable) Globus Gatekeeper daemon to run automatically?	VDTSETUP_ENABLE_GATEKEEPER	y (enable) n (disable) skip (no change)
Would you like to (enable) Globus GridFTP daemon to run automatically?	VDTSETUP_ENABLE_GRIDFTP	y (enable) n (disable) skip (no change)
Would you like to (enable) Globus GRIS daemon to run automatically?	VDTSETUP_ENABLE_GRIS	y (enable) n (disable) skip (no change)
Would you like to setup Globus jobmanager for Condor?	VDTSETUP_ENABLE_JM_CONDOR	y (enable) n (disable) skip (no change)
Do you want the EDG CRL update daemon to be installed?	VDTSETUP_EDG_CRL_UPDATE	y (enable) n (disable)
Where would you like to install CA files? (Click here for more information)	VDTSETUP_INSTALL_CERTS	r (root) l (local) n (not at all)
Do you want to set up Globus log rotation?	VDTSETUP_ENABLE_GLOBUS_ROTATE	y (enable) n (disable)
Do you want the GRIS server to authenticate clients?	VDTSETUP_GRIS_AUTH	y (enable) n (disable) skip (no change)
Do you want to set up MonaLisa?	VDTSETUP_ENABLE_MONALISA	y (enable) n (disable) skip (no change)