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Hi Chris,
> I should have mentioned that I tried 'sudo easy_install ...' and it
> prompted me for a password. Hitting return didn't do the trick...
>
How are you logging into the instance? Have you tried the
sshmaster/sshnode/sshinstance commands? All of these commands should log
you in as root by default:
# login as root on the master node of 'mycluster'
$ starcluster sshmaster mycluster
# login as root to node001 of 'mycluster'
$ starcluster sshnode mycluster node001
# login as root to any instance by instance id (keypair must be defined
in config)
$ starcluster sshinstance i-14e9157c
# login as root to any instance by public dns name (keypair must be
defined in config)
$ starcluster sshinstance ec2-123-123-123-12.compute-1.amazonaws.com
If these commands work you should be logged in as root and easy_install
should work without any 'permission denied' errors. Pass --help to any
of these commands for more details and a list of available options.
> Once I am able to create a new custom AMI, shouldn't I be able to spin
> up a cluster of VMs all using the same image?
Absolutely. You can do this by putting your new AMI id as the
NODE_IMAGE_ID setting in a cluster template defined in the config. Have
a look at the comments for the NODE_IMAGE_ID setting in the example
'smallcluster' config here:
http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/docs/configuration.html#defining-cluster-templates
However, please note that currently the best way to create a new AMI
based on the StarCluster AMI is to launch a single instance of the AMI
using the AWS Console instead of StarCluster. Then login to the instance
as root, modify the install, and create a new AMI from the instance. If
you want to create an S3-backed AMI you can use StarCluster's
'createimage' command to completely automate the process:
$ starcluster createimage i-999999 my-new-image my-s3-bucket
Please see
http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/docs/create_new_ami.html
for more details.
Hope that helps,
~Justin
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Austin Godber <godber_at_uberhip.com
> <mailto:godber_at_uberhip.com>> wrote:
>
> You should be able to use sudo to do things as the root user:
>
> sudo easy_install boto
>
> I am pretty sure that works.
>
> Though you should keep in mind that will only run it on the current
> node and /usr/local isn't share between nodes ... at least as far as
> I know of.
>
> Austin
>
>
> On 03/14/2011 08:55 PM, Chris Diehl wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just successfully fired up my first cluster in short order which
>> is brilliant!
>>
>> My first step was to try and install additional modules so that I
>> could save a custom AMI for future use.
>>
>> Doing an 'easy_install <packagename>' yielded:
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> error: can't create or remove files in install directory
>>
>> The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files
>> in the
>> installation directory:
>>
>> [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/test-easy-install-5265.write-test'
>>
>> The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir,
>> --prefix, or
>> the distutils default setting) was:
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>>
>> Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?
>> If the
>> installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need
>> to sign in
>> as the administrator or "root" account. If you do not have
>> administrative
>> access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different
>> installation
>> directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH
>> environment
>> variable.
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> Does sgeadmin not have admin rights? Should I be able to install
>> software at will without permissions issues?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
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