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Re: can a cluster machine be made ssh'able in?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Feb 19 16:53:29 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:50:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>,
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Except that if you ssh in this way, you end up outside the chroot, and that
> makes it not very useful for testing. (For example, the MATLAB and
> Mathematica problems would not have manifested themselves in such an
> environment)
>
> Alex and I talked about this earlier, and it seems like the only options are
> VMware or VNC if you want to test something exactly as in a cluster
> environment, correct?
Yeah. XVM's web VNC console is reasonably good for this (it's what I've
been using when I've tried to debug cluster machine issues).
-Tim Abbott
