Note: This version of the VDT (1.9.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.9.0 Release

On 2007-03-21, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.9.0.

Highlights of changes since 1.8.1

• Globus and other software are now linked against the system OpenSSL instead of the one provided with Globus. See below for details.
• We've added support for Debian 4.
• We've updated a ton of software and fixed many small bugs.

New Software Since 1.8.1

• VOMRS-Client (VDT ticket 3040)
• Unsup-Xrootd
  We have added Xrootd, a cluster file server. It was a late addition, so we only provide the binaries for a variety of platforms, but no configuration. Because the VDT Team is still learning about Xrootd, we've labeled it as an unsupported package.
• Procd
  The Procd is a unprivileged, supporting tool used by glexec.

Upgraded Software Since 1.8.1

Software	Ticket (if applicable)
Apache HTTPD 2.2.8	(VDT ticket 3265)
Berkeley DB 4.6.21
Berkeley Storage Manager (BeStMan) 2.2.0.7
gLite CEMon Server 1.8.0
Condor/Condor-G 7.0.1	(VDT ticket 3213)
Condor Cron For OSG-RSV 7.0.1
cURL 7.18.0
dCache 2.1.6 (Based on dCache 1.8.0)
Generic Information Provider 1.0.0b0	(VDT ticket 3387)
glexec-osg 0.5 (glexec 0.5.23.3, lcas 1.3.7.1 and lcmaps 1.4.3.1) 0.5	(VDT ticket 3378)
Globus Toolkit, pre web-services 4.0.6	(VDT ticket 3347)
Globus Toolkit, web-services 4.0.6	(VDT ticket 3347)
Gratia Condor Probe 0.32.1-3	(VDT ticket 3381)
Gratia Glexec Probe 0.32.1-3	(VDT ticket 3381)
Gratia LSF Probe 0.32.1-3	(VDT ticket 3381)
Gratia Metric Probe 0.32.1-3	(VDT ticket 3381)
Gratia PBS Probe 0.32.1-3	(VDT ticket 3381)
Gratia Reporting 0.32.1	(VDT ticket 3381)
Gratia Services 0.32.1	(VDT ticket 3381)
Gratia SGE Probe 0.32.1-3	(VDT ticket 3381)
GSI-Enabled OpenSSH 4.2
GUMS 1.2.16	(VDT ticket 3379)
Java SDK 1.4.2_16
Java 5 SDK 1.5.0_14
Java 6 SDK 1.6.0_02
MonALISA 1.8.6
MyProxy 4.2
OSG Resource and Service Validation (RSV) Probes 2.0.0
Pegasus 2.1.0	(VDT ticket 3349)
Pegaus Worker Package 2.1.0
PHP 5.2.5
PPDG Cert Scripts 2.5	(VDT ticket 3315)
PRIMA Authorization Module 0.7.1
Python 2.3.7
Squid Web Proxy Cache 2.6.STABLE18	(VDT ticket 3178)
SRM V2 Client 2.2.0.7
SRM V2 Tester 2.2.0.7
syslog-ng 2.0.8
Tcl 8.4.18
TclGlobus 1.6.4
UberFTP 1.27
VOMRS 1.3.2	(VDT ticket 3114) (VDT ticket 3357)
VOMS 1.8.3	(VDT ticket 3287)
VOMS Admin 2.0.13-1	(VDT ticket 2897)
Wget 1.11

Bug Fixes Since 1.8.1

• Fixed the MySQL wrappers that the VDT creates so that commands like "mysql" return exit codes properly. (VDT ticket 3300)
• The JDK-1.4 and JDK-1.5 packages are now fixed to properly install a 32-bit version of Java when running a 32-on-x86_64 install. (VDT ticket 3306)
• Fixed an issue that prevented RSV jobs from running if vdt-control was run in a directory that had restricted file permissions for the RSV user. (VDT ticket 3284)
• Added a timeout to the RSV gratia-script-consumer to prevent RSV outages when the central Gratia collector hangs. (VDT ticket 3317)
• A handful of packages that were unable to be installed with Pacman have been fixed.

New Platform Support

• The VDT now supports Debian 4 on both x86 and x86-64 architectures.
• The VDT now supports Suse Linux Enterpise 9 (SLES 9) on x86-64.

Platforms Dropped from Support

• We have dropped support for Fedora Core 4.

Other Changes since 1.8.1

• Globus is no longer linked against the version of OpenSSL provided with Globus (which was quite out of date), but is linked against the version that comes with your OS. We also used to link lots of VDT software against the Globus OpenSSL. Using the OS-provided OpenSSL should be more secure: if problems are found in OpenSSL, your OS vendor will likely update OpenSSL quickly, and software in the VDT will benefit from it.
• The Generic Information Provider has had a major upgrade. You'll now find it in $VDT_LOCATION instead of $VDT_LOCATION/lcg. Hopefully you'll also find a lot of bug fixes and improvements. One of the finer points: the dynamic condor probe used to only subtract Owner VMS from the total if you set OSG_GIP_SUBTRACT_OWNER .. the behavior is completely toggled. Now it does the subtraction unless you set OSG_GIP_DONT_SUBTRACT_OWNER (VDT ticket 3387)
• Squid has been reconfigured to support 16,384 open file descriptors, an increase from the default 1,024. This should allow extremely busy Squid caches to scale to more simultaneous requests. (VDT ticket 3132)
• Squid now preserves configuration data when using "pacman -update Squid". It also attempts to preserve old Squid configurations when using OLD_VDT_VERSION when installing a new VDT version. This functionality only works on VDT 1.8.1 and later. (VDT ticket 2978)
• Unsup-Dccp has been renamed to Dccp
• Unsup-Stunnel has been renamed to Stunnel
• NMI-Build-And-Test has been renamed to Metronome
• Improved how the fully qualified hostname is determined, and improved error logging in cases in which it is not possible to determine one. (VDT ticket 3187)
• The configure_gratia script now preserves the state information from $OLD_VDT_LOCATION/gratia/var/tmp during side-by-side upgrades. (VDT ticket 3221)
• A new script has been added that checks for some prerequisites for the VDT. This will notify users of missing prerequisites earlier in the install process.
• Permissions have been loosened on the vdt-control state file. This means that an unprivileged user can now run vdt-control --list (VDT ticket 3301)
• CEMon-Client has been removed from the VDT
• Installing the Globus-ManagedFork-Setup package no longer installs the Condor job manager, but just the managed fork job manager. (VDT ticket 3393)

Learning More

To learn more, you can view the main documentation page or documentation specific to VDT 1.9.0.

Known Problems

The VDT 1.9.0 cache is located at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_190_cache