Because data tends to change, it's best to give the process to acquire and audit data and provide a link to the live location of the data, rather than create an addition copy of that data here, unless the local copy is kept synchronized via a script. Otherwise you are just creating extra work and possible sources of error. Let's hear it for a world with fewer forms and less redundancy!

Servers and Workstations and Macs, Oh My!

Getting to know you

• to learn a lot about the hardware, etc., of a linux server, run uname -a
• to see the networking setup of a linux server from the server's point of view, run ifconfig -a on the server
• to see the networking setup of a linux server from the network's point of view, run dig @ns1.csueastbay.edu on another computer
• to see all the packages installed on a redhat linux server, run rpm -qa
• many of the specific configuration files for our servers are also on http://acc.csueastbay.edu/svn/ahat/serverfiles/ under their server name. The serverfiles project is restricted access - it isn't particularly hard to get read access, but you do need to ask for it.

Servers vs. Workstations

Despite being workstation shaped, a number of our boxes really do function as servers, and, as such, should not waste cycles on GUI apps. What that means is that the servers does not run X windows at all. (For the emacs addicts among you, that means you'll want to install emacs-nox on your servers ) Servers run in runlevel 3 (http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/runlevel), boot into runlevel 3, and do not have the xorg packages on them.

acc.csueastbay.edu

Is the main lab server. As such, acc hosts:

• mailman, our email listserv program. mailman admin mailman docs
• user websites at ~username, requires a public_html directory in your home directory, with permission 755
• subversion repository, at http://acc.csueastbay.edu/svn/ahat
  • lots of info on repositories in general and subversion in particular at ManagingData
  • How to give someone access to our repo:

acut.csueastbay.edu

server dedicated to the ACUT research project.

mpdl.mcs.csueastbay.edu

server dedicated to the MPDL research project more notes to come, but this runs microcode_ctl because it is a x86_64 machine

billy.mcs.csueastbay.edu

billy is a workstation. Currently, I (Hilary) have been using billy to work on compiling perl 5.10, which is going pretty well, actually, but more about that later.

maja.mcs.csueastbay.edu

maja is about (05 Mar 2009) to become research server for the BDD of server design and management. -- HilaryHolz

dayz.mcs.csueastbay.edu

Because dayz is only temporarily a server, we haven't ripped the xorg packages out of it.

• dayz is the twiki devel server. When perl 5.10 is installed on acc, we'll move the TWiki to acc.
• webmin (port 50100) and usermin (port 50101) are also running on dayz. I (Hilary) am planning on hosting student accounts on dayz for web classes, so will probably take dayz out of general circulation at some point. We'll see.