Initial production release of osg-control

The OSG Software team will be cutting an initial production release of

osg-control this Friday. The initial osg-control announcement is included

below if you missed it.



Please send any feedback you may have this week to

or and we

will attempt to incorporate it into the release.



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The OSG Software team would like to announce a beta release of

osg-control, a new software tool for managing OSG services. Many thanks

to Tony Tiradani for writing and contributing this software to OSG!



In OSG 1.2, most OSG services could be managed with a tool called

vdt-control, providing an easy way to view services and enable/disable

them. To provide some of this functionality to OSG 3.x, osg-control was

written as a wrapper around osg-configure and the services it manages. The

new tool allows querying the status, starting/stopping, and

enabling/disabling OSG services individually or all at once.



We have released a beta version of osg-control in the osg-testing

repository and are inviting community testing and feedback. If you

currently use osg-configure for OSG services, it should be an easy

install:



yum install --enablerepo=osg-testing osg-control



For more background and discussion on this topic, see:



https://jira.opensciencegrid.org/browse/SOFTWARE-607

https://jira.opensciencegrid.org/browse/SOFTWARE-1156



We welcome any feedback at or

.