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The creation of the log file for the node daemon lacks the mode
parameter, so after applying the current umask, the file got 0700
permissions. Restrict this to the correct 0600.

Reviewed-by: schreiberal

This patch completely  gets rid of fping
 - replace all fping invocations with TcpPing calls
 - update documentation accordingly.
 - associated cleanups (use constant for localhost IP, use more sensible
   defaults for TcpPing and _use_ those)

Reviewed-by: iustinp

- Add NEWS file with major changes between versions.
- Bump RPC version number
- No longer serialize in RPC, but just convert to dict

Old Pickle based configuration files can be converted using the cfgupgrade
utility.

Reviewed-by: iustinp, ultrotter

This patch adds support for instance rename operation at all remaining
layers: RPC, OpCode/LU and CLI.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

This changes the raising of exceptions from:
  raise Exception, value
to
  raise Exception(value)

as the first form will be removed in python-3000 and the second form is
preferred now.

The changes also involve a few cases of changing from raising standard
exceptions and use our own ones.

The new version also fixes many pylint-generated warnings, especially in
ganeti-noded where I changed many methods to @staticmethod.

There is no functionality changed (barring any bugs).

Reviewed-by: iustinp

Reviewed-by: iustinp

handling, as it can be static and outside of ganeti.

This also means we can get rid of a lot of infrastructure too:
  - the master/node config files checkers
  - one rpc function

Reviewed-by: iustinp

- Create all --output options using a constant
- Put node checking code from opcodes into a single function
- Do the same for output fields

Reviewed-by: iustinp

Reviewed-by: iustinp