[openib-general] IB diagnostics problems (OFED-1.1-rc5)

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:40 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Mirko Benz <mirko.benz at xiranet.com>:
> > Subject: Re: IB diagnostics problems (OFED-1.1-rc5)
> > 
> > Hi Hal,
> > 
> > This was a default/build all OFED install. Either we should place these 
> > tools under ../ofed/sbin or make it work for every body. At least a 
> > error message that umad access failed would be required.
> 
> I don't think opening umad for regular user by default is a good idea.

Yes, but this can be limited for predefined group (something like ib,
umad, ibumad...) and then umad permitted users permitted will be a
members of this supplementary group.

Sasha

> And isn't sbin for static binaries?
> 
> With regards to diagnostics - I think proper exit status is reported, so I
> expect if you set up shell accordingly you'll get the diagnostic printout.
> Printing stuff on stderr/stdout might interfere with activating these from
> scripts, so I'm not sure it's a good idea. Hal?
>