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2. Due to security concerns*, we cannot access anonymous incoming FTP space from a web CGI script such as ping_data.pl (that is used by getdata.plpl) thus we first move the data from the FTP anonymous space via a local (non-web job) to a space accessible via the web
- This is done by the script proxy.pl which moves the files from /afs/slac.stanford.edu/public/incoming/pinger/proxy/2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3/ to /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/proxy/2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3/
- the node name (in this case 2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3) is dervied from NODEDETAILS.
- we use a move since one cannot replace an existing file via the anonymous FTP server (one gets a message 'Overwrite permission denied').
Then the getdata.pl script runs nightly at SLAC and calls ping_data.pl via wget to gather the data for all the active MAs (including the proxies). Getdata.pl saves the gathered data in:
Code Block /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/<host>/ping-<YYYY>-<MM>.txt /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3/ping-2018-06.txt
If this is done manually the SLAC account will need permissions to create a directory in /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/. This directory has permissions for user pinger and group iepm
Code Block 176cottrell@pinger:~$ls -ld /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data drwxrwsr-x 220 pinger iepm 32768 May 16 00:45 /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/
To add the user to the iepm group
Code Block 178cottrell@pinger:~$ypgroup adduser -group iepm -u saqibali Jun 7 10:30:33 2018 User(s) 'saqibali' added to group 'iepm' Jun 7 10:30:33 2018 User(s) must logout/login for this to take effect. Jun 7 10:30:33 2018 Starting NIS post actions. Jun 7 10:30:33 2018 [/usr/ccs/bin/make group] copied group to /afs/slac/service/admin/NIS updated group pushed group 179cottrell@pinger:~$ypgroup exam -group iepm Group 'iepm': GID: 2087 Comment: Last modified at Jun 7 10:30:32 2018 by cottrell Owners: cottrell Members: cottrell, iepm, pinger, saqibali, ytl This is a secondary group.
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