Machines in DB lab @ CMU.

Machine OS and Owner

    Machine          Boot         Primary-owner    Secondary-owners
  ------------   ------------     --------------   ------------------
    in DB lab:
  kingfisher      fc3+win           free
  tsingtao        fc3+win           Kensuke
  corona          RH-9, Win         Samuel Wang
  baltika         RH-9, Win         free (used to be Andre)

    in Machine room:
  mythos          RH-7.1            Tim
  newcastle       RH-7.1            Yasushi (postgres)
  warsteiner      RH-9              DB-WEBSERVER    Jimeng+Evan
  efes            Win only          Jimeng

  ironcity        RH-9              Christos

  aegeas          RH-7.1, Win       Tim
  thesseas        RH-7.1, Win       Tim
  cassandra       RETIRED

  

Visitor to-do list

• obtain lab key from Denny Marous (dcm@cs.cmu.edu)
• obtain Kerberos account (Help Desk, Wean 3613) -- needs Christos/oracle string)
• obtain Windows account (Help Desk, Wean 3613) -- needs Christos/oracle string)
• create Kerberos instances (.mail, .remote, .ftp, .root) using Jeeves
• assign a machine and create accounts (Jure, jure@cs.cmu.edu)
• if having Andrew account -- setup the laptop for wireless network access http://www.cmu.edu/computing/wireless/
• optional: obtain account on the Linux UX machines from Help@CS

More

• Help@CS: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help
• Introduction to CS CMU Computing Facilities: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/introduction/ic_2005_slides.html
• CMU webmail: http://webmail.cs.cmu.edu Use your .mail password.

Accounts

  Linux:
    Find AFS user id: pts examine <user>
    Add user: useradd -u <uid> -g <group=users> -d /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/<user> <user>
      If user is local: passwd -l <user>
    Root users in /.klogin.local
  CVS:
    mkdir <cvs_root>
    groupadd <cvs_group>
    Edit /etc/group to add <cvs_group> group members
    chmod u+rwx,g+rwxs <cvs_root>
    chown jure.<cvs_group> <cvs_root>
    cvs -d <cvs_root_path> init
    cvs -d <cvs_root_path> import <files>
    chown -R <user> <cvs_root_path>