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Cluster VM does not have netcat #7

Open laser505t opened 5 years ago

laser505t commented 5 years ago

The VM image 'head' does not have netcat installed by default. This is a problem because it is used for batch connect On Demand apps to tell when the server has been started. https://github.com/OSC/ood_core/blob/0ed3d56fc35fadb1f3f6b83e19790bffddc19356/lib/ood_core/batch_connect/template.rb#L124

MorganRodgers commented 5 years ago

Netcat is listed as a dependency in the docs for setting up interactive applications since the 1.5.x release: https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/master/app-development/interactive/setup/software-requirements.html.

ood-images-full is missing a number of installations and steps in order to run Batch Connect applications. See the various scripts in https://github.com/OSC/bc_desktop_example_kde/tree/master/setup for examples of what needed to be done to get KDE running as an interactive app.

Also, we may look at removing the requirement for netcat in the future.