Partitioning Labels in SL5, the part kickstart command takes the label option, but this isn't available in SL4. In both versions, the installer adds labels to f...
Xquartz On OSX 10.5, I use the Xquartz releases of X11 instead of the X11 releases from Apple. These are easy to install and have resolved some issues I've had. ...
Leopard I've installed the 10.5 release over 10.4 on an Intel 32bit core duo macbook with 2GB of RAM. I've updated to 10.5.2 (this was a large ~375MB download). ...
Installing ROOT on OSX 10.5 There is not yet (April 2008) a pre build ROOT package specific to 10.5, however the 10.4 package should work. Install the XCode tools...
SSH Keys Discribes howto generate private/public ssh keys, upload the public on to a server and use ssh agent on your client to securely and conveniently connect ...
Some software I have installed... Web * Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ * Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ Media * Flip4MAC Wind...
Resources * http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Mac_OS_X Setting up a new personal OSX machine * partitioned drive for user's partition * created temp user a...
Using Mathematica Mathematica is available on a few of the cluster machines: ht16, ht17, ht18, ht19 and sasha. (Check the file /opt/mathematica/5.2/Configuration...
Note that the info on this page is mainly generic to any \*nix machine and BASH. What is run when BASH starts See the Invocation section of man bash for a descri...
This tutorial has one edition: http://root.cern.ch/root/Tutorials.html. See CERNRootTutorialBug for an explanation of a bug which affects this tutorial. Main.Da...
There are yearly editions of this tutorial, but 2007 will contain only minor changes from 2006. Download the pdf text of the tutorial from http://www.nevis.colum...
Some of the CERN ROOT Tutorial exercises (namely 6 and 7) generate the same error: * Error : Symbol symbol is not defined in current scope By searching on go...
Introduction A CVS repository is available for personal and workgroup use on the MSUHEP Linux Cluster. The location is /opt/cvsroot. Local and remote access is a...
HEP Webspace We run a web server for the group at http://hep.pa.msu.edu/ Personal pages We don't enable this by default for all users, you must request that this...
OSX FAQs Drag n Drop install requires higher privilege When installing Firefox, you download and mount the .dmg file, you then copy Firefox.app to your applicati...
HEP Linux User FAQs Auto Logout TCSH shell users may experience auto logouts. This is a default "feature" of TCSH and not a cluster policy. TCSH may disable th...
OS X has the program ktrace that lists system calls (similair to strace). ktrace some_command kdump f ktrace.out The equiv of ldd is otool L. Main.TomRockwell...
Clone OSX Want to transfer an OS X system from one harddrive to another, e.g. want to upgrade the harddrive. This is also useful as a backup strategy. Resources...
VRVS to ES.NET Bridge This is how to establish a bridge from a VRVS room to an ES.NET ad hoc (88*) meeting. Note that this just sets up the bridge, you will also...
MSUHEP Linux Cluster New User Information This page is at http://hep.pa.msu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Computing/HepLinuxNewUser An account on the MSU HEP group's desktop...
SAMBA SAMBA is an open source SMB protocol file server. Many clients such as MAC OS X and MS Windows can connect to SMB servers. SAMBA runs on ettin.pa.msu.edu ...
Queues There are two queues available to users on the system. They are named user and userhigh. The user queue is setup to get about 1/2 of the cluster resource...
UNIX backup tools on OSX * http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/archive/ About resource forks and all that. * http://developer.apple.com/macosx/backuponmaco...
Kerberos on OSX Apple ships a version of Kerberos on newer OSX systems. It needs to be configured to know about the realms you wish to use. The OSX Kerberos clie...
User Information for the Intel Compilers Intel compilers and debuggers are installed below /opt/intel. Fortran Intel provides a script for setting up the user en...
cap to senna, 21 Nov 2005 traceroute to senna.pa.msu.edu (35.9.71.89), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 cc rtr ve21.net.msu.edu (35.9.119.1) 0.201 ms 0.146 ms ...
References * List of printers on department website. Printers There are three printers in room BPS 3214a, each is configured on the Linux cluster. Additionally...
Several machines on the cluster have CD RW drives and may be used for burning CDs. The program cdrecord is configured to allow users to burn CDs. Cdrecord is a ...
The Atlas Releases are installed below /cern/atlas/dist. (If you have an opinion about where they should be, let me know.) Currently, we have 10.0.1 and 10.0.4....
The D0 software is installed below /fnal. Links similair to the setup on ClueD0 also exist (/D0 /d0dist /d0usr). To setup the UPS environment, do source /fnal/up...