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Main.ctucker 23 Nov 2010 How to Mount Kerberized NFS Shares as a Member of the CSCF Active Directory (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) Document UNDER DEVELOPMENT and intended...
Authenticating an Ubuntu machine using the CS Active Directory (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) Note that when setting up LDAP access for a host which happens to be running...
Main.dlgawley 16 Sep 2008 Hardy client setup built from Gutsy notes and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryHowto Windows 2003 Active Directory Management...
Note \ These scripts are fine for setting up individual Ubuntu workstations, \ but, because they install ntp packages \ they should not currently (Apr 25,...
Main.ctucker 28 Oct 2005 CSCF Directory Services DNS Configuration (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) CSCF manages four general use DNS servers for the School of Computer...
Kerberos Principals for Unix based Services in Active Directory (OBSOLETE) A service principal is needed whenever you want to provide Single Sign on for users that...
Enabling LDAPS on Active Directory Domain Controllers (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) This document describes 2 approaches on how to set up domain controllers in AD to...
Main.ctucker 06 Oct 2008 This is still a work in progress. Major editing will be taking place for some time. Active Directory Account Management And Setting User...
Thoughts Concerning The Planning Of A Campus Wide Directory Service (OBSOLETE) By Clayton Tucker Manager of CSCF`s Active Directory Forest, Forest Architect and...
MikeGore 04 Mar 2013 APCUPSD setup and networking notes for Ubuntu This document contains minimal basic instructions for using a standalone or cluster managed networked...
Image Deployment using Acronis Acronis10 Acronis 10 TWIKI page Acronis11 Acronis 11 TWIKI page Imaging Notes: CscfGradImageNotes Setup...
Image Deployment using Acronis Acronis10 Acronis 10 TWIKI page Acronis11 Acronis 11 TWIKI page Setup Make sure that you connect your PC...
Administration This section covers those areas that are (were) typically handled by the CSCF Administrator Accounts Accounts top level collection of notes...
MikeGore 30 Jan 2012 Advanced Format Drives 4k sector size drives Note many of the drive manufactures are created drives with 4k sector sizes. It is important...
MikeGore 2015 11 04 Agile Shipping The Agile Shipping system is used to ship all packages at the University. Main Login page Main Login page: http://agileship...
ALGORITHMS AND COMPLEXITY GROUP DC2305 Official webpage at http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~algcomp/ Lab Printer See also ljc alg web page The printer address...
MikeGore 2017 03 29 CISCO AnyConnect VPN client at the University of Waterloo Note: For Linux users you can also use OpenConnect see OpenConnect Installation...
Artificial Intelligence Group DC2306 Information Web site: http://www.ai.uwaterloo.ca/ CSCF Subscription Info Point of Contact Contact me if you...
Authentication Task Group Purpose The purpose of the authentication task group is to determine directions for authentication services within the School of Computer...
Authentication Task Group Meeting Minutes 2008/06/26 Agenda / Discussion Date: 2008/06/26 Time: 10:00am 11:35am Membership invitees: Mike P...
THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE Backup using Areca These notes describe how to setup backups using the UW.Areca backup software Making a Backup Job Instructions:...
Basic Linux Admin Tasks (Debian/Ubuntu) How do I... Become root? Best way is to log in as yourself and type `sudo s`. (Or `sudo tcsh` or some other shell of your...
Kirk McKusick has graciously allowed us the use of our modified Beastie logo. From: Mike Patterson Subject: BSD beastie use To: mckusick #64;mckusick.com...
Bioinformatics Group DC2582 Web site: http://monod.uwaterloo.ca/ This TWIKI is outdated as is being fully rewritten updated 13Feb2020 Research clusters updated...
Bomgar Links Official website: Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomgar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomgar IST Remote Help Page: remotehelp...
See also: ST#50784. Cool: we can use hyphens in userids now. Bad: inetd support is even worse than before (so rsh is difficult to get working). It looks like it really...
CSCF Debian Image Bug List (Obsolete) Installation Version 0.6.5 USB mouse did not work after booting up Solution: ran mdetect, which said the device...
Burning CDs in Linux Gui Tools XCDroast GUI: xcdroast. It`s pretty self explanatory. Sometimes it has issues though. k3b For the KDE enabled, k3b is pretty...
CFI New Opportunities 2002 Primary Investigator: Arne Storjohan PilatusNotes information about pilatus and how to use it ShutdownPilatus how do I make...
CSCF Application Server (Asimov) notes 19 Aug 2020 Updates to new server notes are in progress mostly done Summary Purpose File system for CSCF image...
MikeGore 17 Nov 2009 CS Application Server (ASIMOV) Talk Resources CSApplicationServer Hardware 8 hard drives Fast Core 2 Duo, 4G Ram, dual 1G network...
CSCF Active Directory Overview ADForestLayout Structure of the CSCF Active Directory Forest. ADDnsConfiguration Special DNS Configuration for CSCF Active...
CSCF Research Support These notes are intended to provide an overview of how the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF) Research Support Group (RSG) operates,...
CSCF Service Catalog Version 2.2: Categories and Services from Education best practice standards, with proposed changes. See: of Services, Categories, Audiences...
CS Grad Student Printing CS graduate students are strongly encouraged to use print queue lj csgrad, which is a pair of printers located in the grad mailroom, DC...
CS network ACL summary (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) work in progress please send comments to trg We`ve requested a summary (with regular ongoing updates and maintenance...
Cacti Monitoring Tool The CSCF cacti install is located on watcher.cscf and is accessible via cacti.cscf. Cacti Monitoring See CactiMonitoring Setup Installation...
Other Campus Linux Projects Redhat Archive maintained by IST IST`s Linux Users` page Engineering wiki on linux projects `Linxus` (Nexus integrated...
CanHEIT / HPCS 2016 CanHEIT CUCCIO oversees the annual Canadian Higher Education Information Technology Conference, known as CANHEIT. With a focus on IT issues of...
Casper Suite (Obsolete) As of October 2016, JAMF Software has been renamed jamf and plans to rename Casper Suite to jamf Pro sometime in 2017 when the software reaches...
You can update your CentOS box from the local mirror, if you`re on campus. Here`s the file you want to drop into /etc/yum.repos.d . MikePatterson 01 Aug...
Cfengine Introduction Cfengine stands for configuration engine and is a tool using declarative language to configure computers. Setup in CSCF Cfengine is being used...
ClusterInformationAggregationTool (CIAT) This page is for a staff meeting presentation. Usage instructions can be found on the project repository. Problem ~...
MikeGore 24 Aug 2012 Cluster Tools Ubuntu Linux Setup, Administration and Documentation see: See ClusterToolsSetup Cluster Tools scripts and Utilities...
MikeGore 2015 08 25 common shell scripts used by ClusterTools common functions common functions Common SHELL functions used by image deployment system...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 This Page is obsolete Do Not Migrate Cluster DNSMASQ Setup dnsmasq provides DHCP, DNS ad, TFTPBOOT services for the cluster Makefile...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 Cluster Imaging tools CloneZIlla PXE boot See CloneZilla /cscf adm/src/fetch clonezilla updates to the latest version automatically...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 PXE TFTPBOOT configuration detail PXE BOOT /tftpboot/pxes Config: /tftpboot/pxes/pxelinux.cfg/default ISO boot images...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 Custer Tools Files and Scripts Documentation, File and scripts for the installation and operation of a new cluster Some end user tools...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 Cluster installation and Setup walk trough Administrative view This document explains what key files need to be created to install the...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 Common management utilities for end users and admins Other resources ClusterTools Cluster Tools main documentation root ClusterToolsSetup...
Command Documentation: getpw This turns out to duplicate getent , which is already available on Solaris and Linux. The standard getent should be used instead...
Connecting to wireless networks on Linux Ubuntu on laptops are unable to directly connect to eduroam (especially on the images CSCF images). A way to get the laptop...
Course Account SSH Key Access We use ssh and public keys to provide access to course accounts. This is background information on SSH public keys to authenticate as...
Course Account SSH Keys: CSCF Administration We use ssh and public keys to provide access to course accounts. We have deployed an automated tool to propagate ssh keys...
Course Evaluation instructions for end users These instructions will be emailed to end users of the data. End users are Math administrators such as Chairs of Math...
Creating the Gradpc Workstation Image The gradpc image consists of a sysprep`d Windows XP Pro (plus applications) partition (first partition of the hard drive, a middle...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 09 15 Invitees Attendees Dave, Gouxiang, Lori, Nathan Review and accept previous meeting minutes. Proposed...
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MikePatterson 27 Jan 2005 First Meeting 22 April 2004, 1245, MC4019 Present: Walter, Guoxiang, Fraser, MikeP, Lawrence, Dave, Patrick Minutes: Lawrence (with supplements...
27 January 2005, DC3540 Meeting 1300 1430h (Patrick had to duck out at 1400) Present: Daniel, Fraser, Guoxiang, Patrick, Mike. Agenda 1 What do we have running...
08 March 2005 Agenda: 0 Mirror update (DanielAllen) 0 Printing update (MikePatterson) LinuxPrintingIssues 0 Slow gradpc`s (MikePatterson) 0 Student...
January `06 Meeting Meeting: 1pm 2pm. Present: Daniel, Dave, Guoxiang, Patrick, Walter, Mike, Christopher. Agenda Ubuntu 5.10 arch masters amd64 x...
October `06 Meeting Proposed date: 23 October 2006. Meeting: 2:00pm 3:00pm Present: Daniel, Dave, Mike, Christopher, Fraser, Phil Agenda pre announce: fe...
Linux Working Group Meeting Minutes 2008/06/02 Attendance Mike Patterson, Mike Gore, Walter Tautz, Lawrence Folland, Phil Beldowski, Dave Gawley Agenda items...
Linux Working Group Meeting Minutes 2008/07/19 Attendance Stephen Nickerson, Walter Tautz, Lawrence Folland, Dave Gawley No shows: Mike Patterson, Mike...
Linux Working Group meeting notes 2010/01/29 Meeting Date Friday January 29th, 2pm in DC 2314 Attendees DawnKeenan, DaveGawley, FraserGunn, MikeGore...
Linux Working Group Agenda Meeting Date Friday February 12th, 2pm in DC 2314 Attendees Dawn Keenan, Guoxiang Shen, Stephen Nickerson, Fraser Gunn, Lawrence...
Linux Working Group Agenda Meeting Date Friday February 26th, 2pm in DC 3540 Attendees Dawn Keenan, Lawrence Folland, Guoxiang Shen, Fraser Gunn, Dave...
CSCF Linux Working Group 2020 12 15 Announcements Power outage of MC 3015 server room: https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id 1123196 DFSc...
CS Linux Working Group Meeting 2021 01 12 Attendees Dave, Adrian, Anthony, Clayton, Fraser, Gordon, Guoxiang, Lori, Nathan Agenda Reboot policy / schedule Resolution...
Linux Working Group Agenda Meeting Date TEAMS: Wednesday, Jan 26, 10:30 to 11:55pm Attendees arpepper, ldpaniak, a2brenna, ctucker, nfish, gxshen, gboerke...
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Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 03 09 Invitees Attendees Dave, Anthony, Adrian, Clayton, Guoxiang, Fraser, Lori, Nathan, Devon Review...
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Setup Ubuntu/Linux/Gnu frontends (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) (deprecated pre 2012, see CSCF Ubuntu Setup Information) A description of what a frontend is Strictly...
Notes on Particular Versions of the Grad Workstation Image References CloneZilla clonezilla documents An index to this page listed by Motherboard / Laptop...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes (image file name) Image Name: Created by: Creation Date: Created on workstation base: (bar code), (motherboard...
Wishlist for CSCF Grad PC Images General / both environments new cscf adm password for Fall 2010 partition layout we need to decide what it should be...
CSCF Organization Chart The CSCF Organization Chart can be found in the CSCF About pages, here: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/about/orgchart Updating the chart...
CSCF Specific notes Note 2008/04/22 (lfolland) Given that the entire CF Twiki is now CSCF specific, this page should be considered deprecated and these topics should...
CSCF Start of Term Email to Instructors We want to have an understanding of what instructors need, so we send them mail before the start of term to learn of any changes...
Thin Client Environment in CS Current System see Standards and Procedures web pages. Proposed New Systems What we need We require a low cost, easily maintainable...
Setup a CUPS Printer on Linux Setting up all CUPS printers available from print.cs 17Jan2016 Note: We suggest using the Add Printers manually given that printing...
CUPS in the School of Computer Science We describe the work being done to setup a CUPS server along with a Print Accounting system for the School of Computer Science...
Custom Clonezilla USB Key for UEFI installations For more then on image I suggest a fast 128GB key with known high speed read and write specs Requirements...
Cyclades Configuration Database / Tool: Participants: DanielAllen, Dave Gawley; advice by FraserGunn. Demo at: http://lurch.uwaterloo.ca/cyclades/ As per Dave`s requirements...
Overview Updates to hostname, MAC address, and IP address in the inventory web interface will trigger corresponding updates to our DHCP service. All three elements...
The DHCP information system in Computer Science (OBSOLETE) Overview CSCF CSI provides a DHCP infrastructure for computers, printers and other devices on its networks...
This page is obsolete Do Not Migrate DNSMASQ ASIMOV configuration Note: in the document DNSMASQ refers to the dnsmasq scripts home directory Rererences...
This page is obsolete Do Not Migrate MikeGore 2018 06 28 DNSMASQ Multiarch PXE booting Summary This is a standalone version of the DNSMASQ PXE boot configuration...
MikeGore DS2 Data Structures Group Server https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/DataStructures Accounts DS2 is part of the CS active directory...
CSCF Course Resource Data We record our understanding of what computing resources instructors need. It is used to determine if we have the right software installed...
Documentation Links that to learn more about Debian: debaday has interesting Debian packages posted (almost) daily. The Debian FAQ is always a good place...
(This page is getting bulky enough that perhaps we should spin off a new set of pages, one per q and a? MikePatterson)or maybe by category (Updates, Display, Printing...
Using Debian in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Waterloo. Current release version is 0.8.9.1. DebianInstallNotes likely interesting only...
Debian Install Notes (Obsolete) Location of Files: \\asimov.cscf.uwaterloo.ca\sysprep\SYSPRIMG\CSCF DEB Install the split image. root wants to be /dev/hda5...
Installing Java on Ubuntu and Debian Ubuntu: Step 1: Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://mirror.cscf/ubuntu/ uwaterloo/...
Alex Roman`s notes on doing this... For Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Installation Notes Make SURE you have the LATEST BIOS update installed! Or else you might end up...
Denial of Service (This page needs updating) We are continually bombarded with outside attempts to connect to our systems, to break in. It`s mostly `ssh` attempts...
DenyHosts References See Documentation: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ FAQ and Issues Excerpt: What is DenyHosts? DenyHosts is a script intended to be run...
DHCP Debug tool (OBSOLETE) Based on work done by Ethan Galstad (nagios #64;nagios.org) for the nagiosplugin Original source file CHECK DHCP.C (see source...
MikeGore 2017 01 17 Adding Printers manually using direct to printer printing 17Jan2016 1) This method has the advantage that the user gets direct feed back from...
Data and Disk Recovery Services NOTE if you are a company that provides data recovery services listed in this TWIKI page please feel free to send updates information...
CSCF Distributed File System (DFS) Notes Table of Contents Data Encryption Options The layered architecture of the DFS presents a number of options for ensuring...
Configuring Dual Monitors in Ubuntu The main HowTo for configuring dual monitor support on Ubuntu is http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t 221174. I`ve included...
Understanding EFI and its role in NetBoot (Obsolete) Where is it on the machine, how big is it, and what can you do with it? See also rEFInd boot manager from...
Setting up Email Sending with Postfix We have Linux servers that need to be able to send mail, but do not need to run an SMTP receiver. Install the postfix and...
Meeting 27 January 2016, 2pm Attended: drallen a2brenna fhgunn ldpaniak. Lori noted the `Update Server Room High Speed Network Interconnects` might be time consuming...
Meeting 3 February 2016, 2pm Attended: drallen, dlgawley a2brenna fhgunn ldpaniak Agenda: Timeline for project Next round of milestones Items to...
Meeting 25 February 2016, 2pm Attended: drallen a2brenna fhgunn ldpaniak Agenda: Progress on Milestones Timeline Brief summary since the last meeting...
Main.ctucker 18 Nov 2005 Use the Neoware Linux Factory Reset Feature to Repair the Terminal Factory Reset is a built in function of the NeoLinux operating system...
High School Equipment Co op Guide This guide is intended to be used, and maintained by the co op student in the Computer Support Assistant position. It will cover...
Exam Seating This page is intended to document the aspects of the exam seating system that USG members are interested in learning about. With that said, anyone who...
Mail Configuration on Debian Boxes Incoming Mail By convention, Linux hosts do not accept mail directly since the current xhiered sendmail package is not available...
Faculty Recruiting System The Faculty Recruiting System is a web application and database used by applicants to CS Faculty positions and the SACA committee (chaired...
Faculty Recruiting System: Video Uploads These instructions are for an administrative user to process raw videos to add to the Faculty Recruiting system. Setup First...
Meeting: 2016 09 08 DC2310 14:00 Present: dlgawley, a2brenna, nfish, gxshen, ldpaniak, lfolland Agenda: Topics to discuss: overview of hardware and test results...
Meeting: 2016 09 28 DC 2310 Attendance: David Gawley; Lawrence E Folland; Omar M. Nafees; Lori D. Paniak; Guoxiang Shen; Ken Salem Adding Guoxiang and Lori to the...
First Response Recipe This page is intended to document steps you can take to clean up a machine that is suspected to be infected. NB: it is difficult to say with...
Part 2: Configuring the Frontend The first time you log in as root, you`ll be prompted about setting up ssh keys. Press Enter three times to accept the default location...
Title GPUInstallScripts These scripts installs Cuda, Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch, Pycuda and related packages Location of master repository This Document...
GPU software installation page NVIDA GPU with CUDA and tensorflow configurations Linux GPUSoftwareLinux Windows GPUSoftwareWindows
Linux CUDA,cuDNN, NVIDIA and Tensorflow GPU install Note: As of Ubuntu 20.04 we are switching to docker Why? The Ubuntu packages and various...
MikeGore 02 Mar 2010 GRUB2 Repair See also UEFI boot notes Grub 2 Documents https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 main Ubuntu Docs http://wiki.archlinux...
MikeGore 14 Dec 2012 GRUB2 and Windows 7 Dual Booting External References http://www.boyans.net/DualBootWindows7andLinuxOrUnix.html http://www...
Things not to do: put hardened in USE in /etc/make.conf . It breaks X right now. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show bug.cgi?id 43177 Or, should...
This is obsolete and should not be used. University of Waterloo Standard PC deployment information sheet Request #...
Graduate Student Computing Workflow Initial Computing Selection Supervisors are provided with a form to select which kind of equipment they wish to provide their...
Grad Student Laptop Deployment This information pertains to laptop systems. For desktops, see GradStudentPCdeployment (Notes as of Fall 2006) Core Group The...
Grad Student PC deployment This information pertains to desktop systems. For laptops, see GradStudentLaptopDeployment Core Group Phil will image the School...
StephenNickerson 28 Feb 2011 Software on the Ubuntu 8.04 systems abiword common abiword gnome acl acpi acpi support acpid adduser adept adept batch adept common adept...
StephenNickerson 28 Feb 2011 Introduction In an effort better understand what actually goes on in the graphics lab from a programming point of view, we give and outline...
MikeGore 06 Oct 2006 Using older AT T Berkeley with groff 1.18.1 on Linux systems Note verify site or software license for using these macros first! Steps...
HP Health SNMP Configuration This page includes notes and references for setting up an HP Proliant server to be monitored by CSCF`s nagios system via hp health SNMP...
Handling Accounts Requests System Logs Ignore mails from: 0000 Admin(0000), accounts maintenance software, root, and super user This is info sent from...
MikeGore 2015 07 20 harlow.cs see https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/harlow Machine Description Ubuntu 14.04.2LTS 64bit 64Gram SSD / and Raid 1 /home...
Help Desk Guide This is here to be used as a basic guide for help desk personnel. More guides can be found on the CSCF website at: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/howto...
Himrod cluster Principal Investigators Ashraf Aboulnaga, Hans De Sterck, Ken Salem Cluster hardware overview system count cpu memory disk interconnect...
MikeGore 2015 04 23 Services overview Ubuntu 14.04LTS Linux OS TFTPboot server /tftpboot/pxes root folder SAMBA server /tftpboot...
Mellanox ConnectX 5 Host Chaining Pre requisites Turn off Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR IOV) Boot into the host BIOS and disable SRIOV. Typically found in...
UW DNS/DHCP Maintenance How To This page is very out of date and needs significant rewriting. See DNS Naming Standards or Naming Rules and RFC Documents instead...
Printing How to For Users Note. Most of the user docs on printing will be placed at http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/printing and will be incorporated via server side...
DebianHowTo Questions Add questions here. Once they are answered they should be moved to the DebianHowTo page (I just moved a batch DanielAllen 13 Oct 2005)...
IBM DB2 database management system Disambiguation `DB2` is also used to refer to Berkeley DB (BDB) version 2. For example, the Ubuntu libdb2 package description is...
MikeGore 14 Apr 2011 SuperMicro LOM IPMI See ClusterToolsIPMITOOL for the latest documentation for IPMIview,ippmicfg and ipmitool and scripts Documenation...
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Icinga Icinga is an open source computer and network monitoring system that originally started as a fork of Nagios in 2009. CSCF is working to migrate from Nagios...
Image Deployment using Ghost and the CS Application Server This describes the method by which CSCF can put an operating system on a machine by either booting from...
This page is being proposed for deletion because this page describes a method that is no longer used, as mentioned in ImageDeployment. If you believe it should be...
Image file naming and documentation for ASIMOV (CS APPSERV ) Summary This document outlines CSCF file naming rules, documentation and storage locations as it relates...
MikeGore 2014 06 20 Server Setup tools Summary Autmatically setup a new DNS/TFTPBOOT/NFS/Liveboot server with utilities Web Page: https://cs.uwaterloo...
Infrastructure Services This page includes CSCF developer`s notes, references and links on the School`s IT provided services Accounts/Authentication Management...
The command init home desktop (maintained on debian31:/software/bin/init home desktop) is available for linux xhiered machines. init home desktop move aside desktop...
Installed Software on the CSCF Debian image Linux Kernel 2.6 (2.4 available as an alternate) standard Debian kernel image Email Mozilla ThunderBird 0....
Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) Background Faculty members are Richard Cleve and John Watrous. There is no `IQC` server over which we have any responsibilities...
Inventory Database: Field Descriptions These are the field definitions for the CSCF/MFCF Inventory System. See InventoryUserDocs for more information. Note: These...
Inventory Installation Scope of This Document This guide explains how to make a developer`s working copy of CSCF`s Inventory application. It does not include instructions...
Inventory System Administrator Documentation The inventory system tracks CSCF and Computer Science equipment in a database. It can be accessed at https://cs.uwaterloo...
MikeGore 14 Jun 2012 Setup an IPMI SOL card with Ubuntu Fixing Grub to work with SOL Note: I could not get grub to work with both serial and console at the same...
IpmiWeb Web access to iKVM on an IPMI card Access a SuperMicro IPMI interface from Firefox. To view the iKVM the launch.jnlp will be downloaded and run. Java...
05 Jul 2012 Infrastructure Group Meeting. Attendance: Adrian, Clayton, Dave, Dan, Guoxiang, Phil Dates of Interest Last day of lectures for this term is: 25 spring...
LFS (Linux From Scratch) What is it? Benefits Drawbacks With Building Sometimes errors are run into that aren`t explained how to solve. With The...
LISA 2010 Fraser`s attendee notes `10: November 7 12, San Jose CA Training Sessions Attended Nagios: Advanced Topics Instructor: John Sellens, SYONEX Description...
LISA 2010 Lawrence`s attendee notes `10: November 7...
LISA 2010 Ronaldo`s attendee notes `10: November 7...
Laptop Lending Program for the School of Computer Science CSCF Master ST item ST#81816 Public service description https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/services/LaptopLending...
SGI Altix System Administration Dave Wright out of Egan, Minnesota daw #64;sgi.com 10.15.0.2 7 hostname: tng2 tng7 Course expects some amount of Red Hat background...
Licensed Software Work In Progress We don`t license a lot of software, so this page should be an adequate place to record it all. Filemaker Adobe Acrobat Pro Microsoft...
Linux Active Directory (obsolete) Here we will document how to setup a Linux machine to authenticate against an Active Directory and then how to solve various problems...
Automated Shutdown Procedure for Linux These are for notes on automating a shutdown in preparation for a power outage or other outages. The general procedure...
Linux Containers Many of CSCF`s servers run using LXC (LinuX Containers) (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC ) Here we document the most useful commands for working...
MikeGore 2013 05 02 Linux Diagnotic , Reporting and Repair Tools Recovery Utilities Recovery is Possible Diagnostic and Recovery Tools Includes information...
Legato Client Installation notes (OBSOLETE) See Legato Install Notes for Windows Restoring Files https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups...
Using OpenLDAP for Linux Accounts Management This document assumes you are using Ubuntu Server 6.06 (dapper) for both the server and client. It also assumes using...
This page describes the instalation of a Gnu/Linux Distribution on Apple Harware. Most of this page refers to a PowerBook, see below on tips for the Mac Mini (yes...
The biggest problem we`ve had so far with Linux printing is how to authenticate. Our current lpd/lpr system make it very difficulty to reliably and easily allow the...
MikeGore 24 Mar 2020 Linux Remote Desktop Access 8 Sept 2020 Mike Gore Ubuntu 18.04LTS see RT# 1051887 Linux vpn.cs client setup VPN required for remote access...
Standard Features for the Linux desktop This is intended to keep track of the functions and features we expect to be available and working under the standard CSCF...
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Linux Test Suite Note (March 2016) some things to add: gui adminimstration of package adding; reboot/shutdown (does it work??); the cscf adm/cscf op accounts do...
Managing Linux User Accounts An initial foray into figuring out how Linux user accounts and perhaps other stuff like printing can be managed by using network based...
MikeGore 24 Feb 2010 Linux Wireless Networking at UW eduroam External Douments See this document for the latest instructions: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/wireless...
Linux Working Group Agenda Meeting Date TEAMS: Attendees Agenda
`Who would fly on an airplane if it was running Windows?` (no hands) `What if it was running Linux?` (some hands) `What about FreeBSD?` (more hands) `You`re...
Advanced Solaris Administration Informal classroom poll: there`s still some legacy Solaris 6 in production, some 7, loads and loads of 8/9, and very little 10. Lots...
Next Generation Security Tools Security policy includes what you are securing include assumptions (like physical security: `we assume that the building is secured...
LISA Conference 2004. Conference ran Sunday 14 November until Friday the 19th. General notes: Atlanta, GA venue was the downtown Marriot Marquis MikePatterson...
Local Linux Accounts Adding users with a UW userid When creating accounts on a linux machine, we typically use the `adduser` command (in Ubuntu/Debian distributions...
LPR Printing for Windows Note we assume that this computer will NOT be part of a domain ( domain users have printing automatically setup ) Note for Wireless Laptop...
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Starting Points for CSCF non twiki LXC documentation up LinuX Containers (LXC) https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/infrastructure/setups/ubuntu/UW CS Container...
Lynda.com Courses Campus has subscribed to lynda.com to provide video on demand courses on technical topics. Following is detail on subscribing to lynda and details...
m160 Bioinformatics Research Cluster This document describes Ming Li`s CCF research cluster m160.cs See: https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/edocs...
FAQ How to restore a known working Ubuntu KDE/Gnome GUI setup. Access Who can use them? Any student with a cs region account can use the teaching Linux systems...
Creating a Mac OS X Installation Image using DeployStudio (Obsolete) 2011 11 08: in progress This applies to both multicast and unicast images. 1. creating a netboot...
The software differences in various MacOS X versions we deploy (Obsolete) This is a work in progress. ToDo: we have a non teaching minimal image, that we use as a...
How to distribute and install more than one boot image on a client A disk can be partitioned into single, dual or triple boot partitions. Single and dual are already...
Using Curl to Change Settings in Mailman Lists (rendered for `` list) How to use this page View this page as ?mmlist LISTNAME but replace the word LISTNAME...
Managing Users and Printers on the server cups.cs This document is addressed to those who are responsible for adding users to the PYKOTA print accounting system...
Maple Installation License IST license Page http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/admin/maple.html Support contacts: https://uwaterloo.ca/information systems technology...
MarkUs System Administrator Documentation MarkUs is a ruby on rails based online assignment submission system that allows markers to annotate submitted documents,...
Marmoset Course Configuration THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR CSCF STAFF ONLY ISAs, ISCs, instructors, TAs, and IAs should NOT be doing any of the steps on this page unless...
Matlab Installation and Licensing Resources https://wiki.uwaterloo.ca/display/ISTKB/Download or use MATLAB online Licensing options and files There are...
MediaWiki This page is intended to document the aspects of MediaWiki that USG members are interested in learning about. With that said, anyone who finds it interesting...
LSI MegaRaid Hardware notes LSI MegaRaid controllers are available in various configurations. See www.lsi.com The RAID array can be set up via the Adapter BIOS on...
Microsoft Imagine Software Suite General Information Microsoft Imagine is a Microsoft sponsored Azure web site for the educational community. The Math Faculty has...
Effective May 2009, mirror.cs redirects to mirror.csclub. Mirror.csclub is the official mirror for several open source projects, and is the campus distribution point...
sources.list for Ubuntu Using `wget no check certificate`, you can download the versions of sources.list for hosts internal to UW campus here: https://cs.uwaterloo...
At some point in the recent past the following was done to xhier some linux boxes for the graphics lab. Preserved the disk partitions but remade the file...
Dan Hergott`s Miscellaneous Notes Free Printable Calendars http://www.printable calendar.com/ CONVERT METRIC CAD drawing from millimeters to inches 0....
Generally available printers For faculty: ljp cs (1,2) DC 2320 lj dc3624 DC 3624 ljp dc3109 DC 3116 aka ljp 7(?) For Grad Students: $40 quota for self service...
Moving Email WARNING Be careful, especially if moving from mail.cs. I tried the command as listed below, and it assumed EVERYTHING in the file system of my home...
Mozilla Firefox Windows Specific Installation Locations http://mozilla.org Local installation files can be found on the AppServer at: \\asimov...
Mozex a Mozilla Extension to configure an external editor for textboxes 2009 8 13: apparently Mozex doesn`t work with `current` versions (ie v3) of Firefox, so...
MySQL High Availability Preamble This document assumes: You have credentials to access mysql 10 246 .cs.uwaterloo.ca and InfoBlox. The high availability...
Restoring Broken Old Master After Failover Caution: this process is meant to cover most situations output of commands should be reviewed to make sure they make sense...
Slave Failure If a slave has failed, we perform a restore from backups from the master. In this example, we use mysql 104 as the example slave to recover, and...
CS MySQL Database High Availability Testing Notes for System Administrators DRAFT This document is for historical use only, as of 8 April, 2016. Current details...
Ubuntu Migration NAS settings Settings: Name: watform nas (uwaterloo.ca) RAID 6 ( Striped set with dual distributed parity, provides fault tolerance...
MikeGore 16 Apr 2007 NTFS Read/Write utilities http://www.ntfs 3g.org/ The NTFS 3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux...
Nagios Systems Monitoring and Reporting CSCF uses Nagios to monitor and report on hosts. Our setup is described on this page, including extensions to Nagios to integrate...
NetTop Usage Overview CS Nettops are basic machines that load their software off the network. This approach has its advantages, as well as several pitfalls. The nettops...
7 Router challengers to Cisco (DRH 18 Sept 2010) 1. http://www.itworldcanada.com/slideshows/7 cisco challengers/default.aspx Debunking the Myth of the Single...
CSCF Nettop Deployment An overview of the various technologies at work providing service to MC3022, with links to further documentation. When A Deployed Nettop Boots...
Tutorial 2: Basic access and configuration display Roadmap for this tutorial: In this tutorial, the focus will be on the connectivity issues for attaching a serial...
Tutorial 6: Switch topology Points to discuss: building organization cs2 and cs1 organization and exceptions spanning tree stuff Where to Store...
This information is historical the CS departmental firewall no longer exists (trg, 2014 2 28) (OBSOLETE) Tutorial 9: Netscreen firewall procedures Roadmap for...
Legato Networker Windows Install See Legato on Linux for Redhat and Debian installs Notes There are two things you to concern yourself with in order to get...
Preparing for a new Director of CSCF (migrated to: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44440715315/Preparing for New Director) Much of the preparation...
This is a repository for useful information for programmers who are new to CSCF. Some information may be specific to co op students but a goal is general applicability...
Nomachine NX This software allows you to set up a service on a Linux or Solaris machine and then provide a full desktop experience to that server from a Windows, Mac...
MikeGore 2016 10 12 Clonezilla image U16041 VM 250G F16 V2 Update 17 Oct 2016 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/U16041 VM 250G F16 V2 Summary...
MikeGore 22 May 2020 Clonezilla image W10 1909 U1804 VM S20 ver1 Update 22 May 2020 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10 1909 U1804 VM S20 ver...
MikeGore 2016 10 17 Clonezilla image W10 VM 250G F16 V2 Update 10 Oct 2016 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10 VM 250G F16 V2 Summary of W...
MikeGore 2015 12 10 Windows 10 Enterprise and Applications Clonezilla Image W10U1404 M3A78 CM F15 V1 Update 7 Dec 2015 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images...
MikeGore 2017 03 14 Windows 10 Enterprise and Applications Ubuntu 16.04.1 and Applications Clonezilla Image W10U16041 M4A89GTD 640G W17 V1 Update 7 Dec 2015...
MikeGore 2016 10 12 Clonezilla image W10U18042 VM 400G S19 V1 Update 10 Oct 2019 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10U18042 VM 400G S19 V1 Summary...
MikeGore 2019 04 23 Clonezilla image W10U18042 VM 400G S19 V1 Update 10 Oct 2019 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10U18042 VM 400G S19 V1 Summary...
MikeGore 13 Aug 2020 Clonezilla image W10v2004 U2004 sabertooth 640g s20 v1 Update 13 Aug 2020 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10v2004 U...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes (W81U1404 T440s F14) Image Name: W81U1404 T440s F14 Created by: dmerner Creation Date: August 13, 2014 Created...
MikeGore 2015 06 30 Grad Workstation Image File Notes: (image file name) Image Name w81u1404 sabertooth 2TB s15 v3 Created By Phil Beldowski, David Gawley...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2amd001 v1 Image Name: x2amd001 v1 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: June 11th, 2012 Created on workstation...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2amd001 v2 Image Name: x2amd001 v2 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: August 1, 2012 Created on workstation...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2amd002 v2 Image Name: x2amd002 v2 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: September 18th, 2013 Created on workstation...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2amd002 v3 Image Name: x2amd002 v3 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: October 1st, 2013 Created on workstation...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2amd003 Image Name: x2amd003 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: October 9th, 2013 Created on workstation base...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2gen010.gho Image Name: x2gen010.gho Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: August 7, 2009 Imaging software...
x2gen016.TIB NOTES Location: \\asimov.cscf.uwaterloo.ca\IMAGES\core Created Nov 2011 Using Acronis Disk Backup and Recovery 10, NOT version 11 and NOT...
x2gen017v1.TIB NOTES Location: \\asimov.cscf.uwaterloo.ca\IMAGES\core (being created) Created March 2012 Using Acronis Disk Backup and Recovery 10,...
x2gen017v2.TIB NOTES Location: \\asimov.cscf.uwaterloo.ca\IMAGES\core (being created) Created June 2012 Using Acronis Disk Backup and Recovery 10, NOT...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2intel001 v1 Image Name: x2intel001 v1 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: June 11th, 2012 Created on...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2intel001 v2 For Lenovo Laptops Image Name: x2intel001 v2 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: August 1, 2012...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2intel002 v2 Image Name: x2intel002 v2 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: September 18th, 2013 Created on...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2intel003 Image Name: x2intel003 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: Oct13 Created on workstation base:cs...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2intel004 Image Name Created By Creation Date Created on Equipment Tested on Equipment Partitioning...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2zenbook001 v1 For ASUS Zenbooks only Image Name: x2zenbook001 v1 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: August...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2zenbook002 v1 For ASUS Zenbooks only Image Name: x2zenbook002 v1 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: August...
Odyssey 3 Apache Configuration This page explains the contents of /software/odyssey 3 apache/config . RCS ...
Enabling an Apache module in odyssey 3 apache In order to enable Apache modules for our Apache environment, there are additions made on the webserver (such as www...
Odyssey Web Development Co op Guide These notes provide an introductory guide for Web Developer co op students working on the Odyssey application. They are currently...
Odyssey Documentation Overview This page provides technical information about the Odyssey web application`s online help. Background https://odyssey.uwaterloo.ca...
Odyssey Introduction session (DRAFT) Prerequisites You will need the following: https://docs.python.org/3.6/ Python 3.6 https://pip.pypa.io/en...
OFIS Notes from 10 Jul 2009 Past Tasks: Daniel: open software that performs same functionality as sharepoint (as far as we need?) Will ask online about open...
MikeGore 15 Nov 2011 Old Documents for reference Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Packages apt get install openssh server sshfs thunderbird openoffice.org texlive latex...
MikeGore 2016 11 01 OpenConnect OpenConnect is an SSL VPN client initially created to support Cisco`s AnyConnect SSL VPN. It has since been ported to...
MikeGore 05 Nov 2012 openmpi openmpi allows programs to be run cooperatively with other users and share resources. It can trivially be extended across several...
Dell OpenManage SNMP Configuration This page includes notes and references for setting up a Dell PowerEdge server to be monitored by CSCF`s nagios system via OpenManage...
OpenSuSE Updates It would appear that you update OpenSuSE with a SuSE archive. Go figure. For local installation source, go into Yast2 and disable the DVD or CDROM...
The University of Waterloo uses the Oracle Calendar system, locally called bookit to replace Synchronize. We`d like to preinstall the Linux client. Web client is http...
Main.ctucker 18 Nov 2005 Supported Operating Systems for the Eon 4000 and E100 Terminals The following are the currently in service operating systems for CSCF`s Eon...
Main.ctucker 21 Nov 2005 Update the Neoware Linux Operating System The OS of a Neoware Eon 4000 or E100 are updated using a package called a snapin which is uploaded...
Standard Procedures for all Operating System Updates We`ll document some standard procedures, mostly just reminders, for some of the things we do when planning for...
PHP Setup PHP Setup Instructions From InventoryInstallation Installing LAMP LAMP stands for `Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP`. It is a bottom to top suite of technologies...
MikeGore 14 Feb 2012 PXE Boot Files Example Setup a TFTPBOOT server TODO needs updating Files Location: asimov.uwaterloo.ca:/images/exports/tftpboot...
MikeGore 07 Mar 2013 PXE Ubuntu Live boot images on ASIMOV NOTE 11 Mar 2013 I am moving the sections from See https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/PXEBootFilesExample...
MikeGore 20 Mar 2012 Bootable USB KEY with all of ASIMOV`s PXE boot functions Location: /images/rawiso/linux utils/RIP File: mkusb acronis Also...
Planning and Directions in CSCF For an alternate view, see: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/about/plans/ This page will attempt to provide an overview of our services...
MikeGore 2015 10 29 Immediately Post Imaging IMPORTANT MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF ACHI IN THE BIOS Windows Do NOT restart the computer except where noted...
MikeGore 2016 01 04 Immediately Post Imaging IMPORTANT MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF ACHI IN THE BIOS Windows Do NOT restart the computer except where noted...
MikeGore 2015 10 22 Immediately Post Imaging IMPORTANT MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF ACHI IN THE BIOS Windows Do NOT restart the computer except where noted...
MikeGore 2016 01 04 Immediately Post Imaging IMPORTANT MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF ACHI IN THE BIOS Windows Do NOT restart the computer except where noted...
MikeGore 2015 10 22 Immediately Post Imaging IMPORTANT MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF ACHI IN THE BIOS Windows Do NOT restart the computer except where noted...
Post Install notes for W10U 1809 U1804 Sabertooth W19Ver1 Immediately Post Imaging Windows IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT restart the computer except where noted Perform...
MikeGore 2016 01 04 Immediately Post Imaging IMPORTANT MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF ACHI IN THE BIOS Windows Do NOT restart the computer except where noted...
MikeGore 2017 03 14 Immediately Post Imaging Windows Perform Initial Setup change hostname Control panel System Advanced system settings (on...
Immediately Post Imaging Make sure to turn off SecureBoot and change CSM support to LegacyROM only! Windows Perform Initial Setup change hostname...
CscfTechnician 2016 10 12 W10U16041 VM 500G F16 V1 Post Install notes Windows Boot Windows Login cscf op or cscf adm 2016 passwords Change system name...
Post image steps for w81u1404 sabertooth f15 v1 Initial steps / Ubuntu Initial boot: 1) Get to Ubuntu: Method A) System boots to non grub chooser. Escape to...
Post Install Steps for x2intel001 v1 image This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) Immediately Post Imaging Windows...
Post Install Steps for x2amd001 v2 image (Lawrence) Checked October 2012 seems to be accurate. Immediately Post Imaging Windows IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT restart...
Post Install Steps for x2amd002 v1 image This is for the Fall 2013 PC Workstations (dual boot Windows 7/Ubuntu 12.04) Phil says these are the extra or changed steps...
Post Install Steps for x2amd002 v3 image Immediately Post Imaging Windows IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT restart the computer except where noted Perform Initial Setup...
Post Install Steps for x2amd003 image Immediately Post Imaging Windows IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT restart the computer except where noted Perform Initial Setup...
What do I do to make this machine go?? Windows 1 Add user to local Administrators group Linux (if we give up on AD) 1 add a local linux user with admin (sudo...
Post install steps for x2gen016 image Windows Immediately post imaging IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT restart the computer except where noted 1 Boot, Windows will...
Post install steps for x2gen017 image This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) Last reviewed by: Dennis Bellinger...
Post Install Steps for x2intel001 v1 image This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) Immediately Post Imaging Windows...
Post Install Steps for x2intel001 v2 image This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) Immediately Post Imaging Windows...
Post Install Steps for x2intel002 v1 image Note: this is for the Fall 2013 Lenovo laptops Phil says these are the extra or changed steps: new Win7 activation...
Post Install Steps for x2zenbook001 v1 ASUS Zenbook Prime Only This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) Immediately...
Post Install Steps for x2zenbook002 v1 ASUS Zenbook Prime Only This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) Immediately...
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is a database management system allowing custom types, triggers and table inheritance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL PostgreSQL...
Postgres Personal Databases To set up personal databases on postgres.student.cs or postgres.cs , log in to linux.student.cs (tested) or linux.cs (actually,...
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MikeGore 19 Apr 2005 How to setup core.cs to print to a Linux box running CUPS Notes: Please make sure to rcsdiff and rcs files before making changes See: Edit...
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MikeGore 24 Feb 2005 Printer setup documents on UNIX and Linux SettingUpUnixPrintersForCSCF How to setup printers to print from UNIX for CSCF PrintconfPrinterConfigForC...
Resources for Printing Laptop wireless access to printers IMPORTANT if your are using wireless you may have also use the campus VPN to print https...
Problems and Fixes for W10U16041 M5A99X 750G W17 V1 Booting Problem: Windows cannot boot. 1. Press DEL during startup to access the BIOS, then F7 to access...
Problems and Fixes for W10U16041 VM 500G F16 V1 Booting need to set default to `Saved` (Last booted) Windows Office Activation fails Linux LawrenceFolland...
Professional Development The Approach The Approach describes how we allocate professional development resources as fairly as we can. DLP Collection of CSCF Books...
Comparison of Printing Systems See PrintingProblems for an analysis of xhier Lpr and CUPS. Conventions within this Document A print system will be a software tool...
Main.ctucker 18 Nov 2005 Remote Setting and Managing of the Eon Terminal Passwords By default, an Eon terminal`s password is NOT set when the terminal comes `out...
Purchasing Hardware (Page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) General procedures Generally speaking, the goal of purchasing hardware (or anything, really) is to generate...
Purchasing Laptop Computers or Tablet PCs Considerations when deciding what kind of laptop to purchase The sections below describe some of the considerations when...
CSCF Purchasing procedures The following describes a proposed procedure for ordering equipment, in order to facilitate receiving the equipment, filing of paperwork...
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26 August 2004 MikePatterson Retrieve sources for 2.6.8.1 from http://www.isurf.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ (that`s the latest stable, might as well...
MikePatterson 15 Dec 2004 First, back up /fsys1/.software. cd /fsys1 tar zcf quadrasoftware.tgz .software/ mv quadrasoftware.tgz /u/mpatterson (note that /u was still...
Title RAPID1 and RAPID2 Article text. Hardware Dell PowerEdge R740xd CPU 1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHz CPU 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold...
MikeGore Recovery Is Possible Linux rescue system (RIP) Home Page: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent robotti/looplinux/rip/ Note it now appears...
RT Batch Creation and Edits RT has fairly simple scriptable tools for batch ticket creation and edits. Summary RT has powerful scriptable tools for batch ticket creation...
Main.ctucker 08 Jan 2009 Create A Snapin Package to Update rdesktop Most of our Neoware thin clients came equipped with a freeware RDP client called rdesktop . You...
Real time Lab Administration Guide The Real time Lab is used by students taking courses in CS 452/652 where students design and implement a real time multi tasking...
Notes/Questions for Fraser Emergency network service if DHCP fails Is this something that we would be able to put under Common Errors and Troubleshooting? use...
RedHat Linux and Fedora Core Stuff Modified yum.conf You can get RH/Fedora stuff on campus at rha.uwaterloo.ca or mirror.cscf.uwaterloo.ca . See also attached...
MikeGore 19 May 2009 Windows XP Registry Repair Linux can be used to restore Windows registry files that are corrupted Example the \Windows\system32\config\system...
Main.ctucker 17 Nov 2005 Remote Access of Eon Operating System All Eon 4000 and E100 terminals have a telnet server with which a remote manager can login as root...
MikeGore 2017 03 29 Linux Remote Desktop See LinuxRemoteDesktop Macintosh Remote Desktop See https://support.apple.com/en ca/guide/mac help/mh11851/mac...
Replacement of Setpw and Custom Login with Vendor software using Kerberos and LDAP Project Overview The goal of this project is to eliminate our dependence on a custom...
Rescue CD A rescue CD allows you to boot a linux environment from CD. From there, you can mount the local hard drives and do any required work to fix the boot record...
Research Group machine naming conventions The CSCF RSG names machines after science fiction authors, since we tend to read and like that stuff. Herewith follows a...
Research Subscriptions Developer Documentation Software Location On the old Ubuntu 12.04 webserver, the code is installed on www152.cs in /software/odyssey 3 apache...
CVS EladLahav 25 Nov 2005 Preamble CVS is an easy to use, yet powerful and effective version control system. It is based on a client server architecture that stores...
RESEARCH SUBSCRIPTIONS DEVELOPMENT SETTING UP DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT OVERVIEW This section is made to guide new developers through the process of setting up a development...
RICOH 1022 Printer in DC2560A Postscript RICOH DC2560A CUPS on Linux setup Use CUPS. If you use anything else and it breaks, you can keep all the pieces (and...
Riemann Cluster Notes General The Riemann cluster obtained in late 2009 is an SGI XE340 cluster consisting of nine chassis with two separate machines per chassis...
Rsync Usage for Backups Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync http://rsync.samba.org/ Syntax rsync options source destination...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Accounts Management Requirements Proposed Requirements Immediate Implementation Database The database relies on three...
SCG Hardware Scale 5027R 2U Xeon Dual Socket Server, 128G ram, 4 x 2T drives OS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AMD ALT 64bit Hardware nScale 5027R 2U Xeon...
SCG Mail aliases Mail sent to any of the mail aliases for SCG are handled by the CS core mail server. To determine who is in any of the aliases, follow the steps...
SCG printing for Windows and Linux Users Who to call for help? if you have problems that aren`t solved by the following you may speak to the SCGPointOfContact...
SCS Email Plans 2021 We have been discussing for some time now the elimination of CS Mail services. What exactly that will look like and how we will replace some...
How to Set Up a Virtual Host on cs.uwaterloo.ca Web Server Add nsbuild alias: https://nsbuild.uwaterloo.ca/ui/ DNS search for haproxy.cs.uwaterloo.ca and add...
This page is obsolete Do Not MIgrate MikeGore 18 May 2012 SSD Solid State Disks Solid State Disks, DDS or flash drives require special settings to work optimally...
SSH usage IMPORTANT IST now blocks password based SSH to most systems This prenstly does NOT effect users connected to the University via VPN See: https...
Cookbook method for fixing ssh host based authentication Problem: rsh hostname doesn`t require a password. I want ssh hostname to work the same way, for lots...
Adding, Editing, and Deleting Staff Members in ST We still need new staff to be able to access ST tickets, and access to .htaccess protected areas which are controlled...
Login Problems on particular machines Macs in DC3335 The Macs in this room require a user`s CS GENERAL password to access. An easy way to tell if a machine uses CS...
Setting up Markus for a course Markus is accessed via https://markus.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca Markus auto marking backend ~isg/bin on linux.student.cs is a collection...
Emergency restart of all course buildservers As root@linux.cscf: cd /region/cs cscf legacy/u1/omnafees/bin/marmoset/ ./restart all buildservers Adding users...
See any of: CactiMonitoring Cacti NagiosSystemsMonitoring SNMP: MacLabMonitoring OpenManageSNMP MacSnmpSetup SassafrasLabMonitori...
SSH Host Based Authentication from www.student.cs to linux.student.cs hosts See ST#92542 Slowness See ST#96348 OmNafees 2014 10 08
ST Service Special Events While there are various one time special events, there are some regular events. We plan to document MacOSX software that`s often needed...
SeaShell IDE for CS136 See https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/edocs/rtattach/93167/main.pdf Things to note when building: See seashell/INSTALL in the...
.classlist differencing root@linux.student.cs:~/isg/grades/README contains info on some scripts that are run regularly to publish changes to .classlist files...
Graphic Lab in MC3007 The lab in MC3007 is used primarily to support the needs of CS488. It consists of workstations with high end graphics cards that are used for...
Roughly ordered Steps to setup a system: Install an LTS Ubuntu using a standard ISO and then update the Apt Repository Sources using instructions at https://cs...
Below is an extract from notes. Directly preceded by STToRTInvestigationTechnical20170308 between Daniel and Jeff. Lisa and Jennifer and Jeff were there; Robyn was...
Below is roughly based on notes. Lisa, Jeff, Robyn, Daniel, Fraser, and Lawrence attended. Agenda Go Live for IST 4.4: April 22nd (Sat). IST is not going to...
MikeGore 23 Mar 2010 SWAG.CS (was swag new.cs) Machine Record: https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/edocs/machines/swag.cs.uwaterloo.ca/ Operation System...
SaltTemperatureLoggingAndShutdown For more information about SALT https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/SaltStackCSCF Determine if the target system is a SALT minion...
Salt Windows PC and Laptop Install Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose Have Salt provision Windows desktop and laptop machines with site license, accounts...
From: Tomas Vinar To: Mike Patterson CSCF Subject: Debian automated security update Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:08:22 0500 (EST) Here is the routine I am...
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Standard PC Deployment Information Request # Date Installed/Delivered: Computer name IP: 129....
School PC notes This page will gather up the various notes regarding school PCs. Installation of Linux and Windows are documented in other places, but will be noted...
MikeGore 29 Aug 2005 Securing Linux and Applications (This page needs updating) OS Security Securing Fedora Core Securing Fedora: http://itsecuritysymposium...
Security in CS (This page needs updating) Jump off page for security related stuff. LabSchedule listing of possible rooms Opening and Closing SecurityAlerts...
Handling Security Alerts (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) We regularly receive alerts from Security Operations Centre or notice unusual high bandwidth activity. Here we...
MikeGore 05 Oct 2005 V40Z Service Processor Setup References Installation Guide Server Management Guide Diagnostic Guide ServersSP and BIOS Update...
Setting Up IPMI on the Sun Fire X2100 Server On the Server Here`s the quick summary of steps. They are documented in Appendix C of the User`s Guide. Boot the...
Setting up a GradPC using the CS GENERAL Active Directory (This page is Obsolete Do not Migrate) Background This page documents the setup of a standard grad PC...
Setting Up an Ubuntu LTSP server (Obsolete) Introduction This article describes how to set up an server using fat clients and the i386 architecture. Options are included...
DanielAllen Monday 26 Sep 2005 Step by Step Setting Up New Ubuntu Arch Masters (64/32 bit) This document assumes familiarity with xhiering process; might want to...
Setting up PLG Lab PCs with Ubuntu The following assumes that the PC being setup is called `scspc187.cs` Prepatory steps We started out with awk.cs and then proceeded...
Setting up VLANs/trunking on a Debian machine 1 Install VLAN utilities: apt get update apt get install vlan 1 Edit /etc/network/interfaces...
SGI Altix System Administration course June 6 10, 2005 Instructor: Dave Wright (daw at sgi.com) Course notes LawrenceNotes Reference Materials SGI...
Sharing (Critical) Information There are several things in common in the approaches taken for critical situations and ongoing work; both of which can affect our clients...
MikeGore 03 Sep 2009 Skype Setup Note: Audio settings in Linux are a bit tricky. So first we need to get Sound Recorder working then move onto Skype Do not...
SLURM installation on Ubuntu Preparing for SLURM installation Munge and SLURM user creations You want to ensure that you have the Munge and Slurm users created on...
From: Cory Kapser To: Mike Patterson Subject: more notes on the se lab public machines Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:20:07 0400 (EDT) Here is how the password...
SWAG lab DC2555G Background A list of people involved with SWAG can be found here: http://www.swag.uwaterloo.ca/people.html Most PCs are named swagxx, and currently...
Automated Shutdown Procedure for Solaris/Irix This is for notes on automating a shutdown in preparation for a power outage or other outages. The general...
Giant Sponsors Database Historical Documentation Page (Pruned) Working from SponsorsDataAccountsDocumentationBig as a start, we attempt to indicate sections which...
Staff Absences Staff Send E mail to `cscf away@cs` Staff who will not be coming in are requested to send email to cscf away@cs to let management know that they will...
Stored Researcher Equipment (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) We regularly have equipment returned from students that belong to research groups or individual...
Raspberry Pi based Stratum 1 NTP Server Notes The Raspberry Pi is a low cost ARM7 based singleboard linux computer. The most useful feature of the Raspberry Pi is...
SuSE Linux Website Software updates We have a full SuSE mirror on campus, at http://mirror.cs.uwaterloo.ca/suse. You can point yast2 at, ie http://mirror.cs.uwaterloo...
Supporting Information for the AODA Analysis This page is intended to give more specific details about our findings related to the AODA. Information may be added here...
Surplussing Old Equipment (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) To Surplus Or Not to Surplus? Before surplussing equipment, check to see whether it can be re used. See StoredResearcherEquipme...
Swag Printers SWAG has two printers in DC3334 PCs wishing to use the printer need to use direct TCP/IP printing to each printer Swag Print Server Please use...
Symbolic Computation Group DC3594 Web Space: www152:/software/odyssey 3 apache/data/vhosts/www.scg.uwaterloo.ca SCG Managed Conference Web spaces: www...
MikeGore 15 Nov 2010 SysPrep Windows 10 We assume you have a fully loaded version of windows and it has been activated Activation https://cs.uwaterloo...
Configuring and Using Systemimager on Linux Systems These notes are still in a preliminary stage of development. Introduction Systemimager forms a component of...
The Latest Version including those in Subversion I have been conversing with one of the primary developers, see some of my conversation below. I hope to distill these...
Tablet PCs (OBSOLETE) (Updated March 2008 to add latest models) Overview PCs PCs Selecting a Tablet PC slides on selecting a Tablet PC (from WatITis...
Main.ctucker 17 Jun 2009 Several Domains (OBSOLETE) Diversity Of Platform Support Unlike Engineering`s NEXUS domain, CSCF`s AD domains authenticate not just Windows...
Taskgroup Membership Mail can be sent to a task group via an address of the form: tg group@cscf The group names below can be used to send mail, and/or determine appropriate...
Temporary Account Email Template An informative message sent to the person requesting a temporary account and/or the person for whom the account is for can be very...
CSCF Goals by Term Winter 2018 2018 Term Goals (frozen version) all groups ( CSI, TOP, RSG) Fall 2017 TermGoalsFall...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones Fall 2016 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Plan, purchase, configure, deploy and manage lifecycle of equipment...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones Fall 2017 Previous Term: TermGoalsSpring2017 Meeting 2017 08 16 Discussion of potential goals for Fall 2017 Infrastructure https:...
Spring 2016 CSCF Objectives and Milestones April 2016 Ken`s original version: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/pub/CF/TermGoals/CSCFObjectivesS16.pdf Hardware Acquisition...
Term Goals Spring 2016 Research Support Group Master ST#104569 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Objective: timely deployment of desktop...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones May 2017 Previous Term: TermGoalsWinter2017 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Plan, purchase, configure, deploy...
Term Goals Winter 2016 for Research Support and Special Projects General environment File storage Distributed File Service Lawrence/Lori w/Dave/Anthony (ST...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones Winter 2017 January 2017 Next Term: TermGoalsSpring2017 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Plan, purchase,...
Tetherless Networking Lab (Keshav) DC3556ShutDownProcedures: see DC3556 Nabeel Ahmed`s project Old: NabeelAhmed`s project Desktop client systems...
Main.ctucker 17 Nov 2005 CSCF Thin Client Terminals Neoware Eon 4000 and E100 Terminals OsEons Supported Operating System for the Eon 4000 and E...
Do Not Migrate to Confluence Thunderbird troubleshooting steps Note try each solution based on the symptoms you are seeing Are you seeing a certificate warning...
If it can happen to me it can happen to you procedure to reboot and/or restore a macbook It happened to me. I could not reboot my MacBook. It is a newer model...
Network Training and Tutorials (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) Over time Dan and Trevor will be creating a set of tutorials and training documents pertaining...
Twiki notes for CSCF and MFCF staff TWIKI Add On Products Add On Products TWIKI Editors and Plugins integration Edit Plugin Java 1.1 applet text...
Survey Analysis In the Fall 2012 term, the CSCF Technical Writer conducted a survey to research the requirements that CSCF staff had for Twiki. This page summarizes...
TwoFactor Authentication Service (Needs Updating) Purpose The Two Factor Authentication service is a secure authentication service intended for computing support...
Architecture for the TwoFactor Authentication Service (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) The TwoFactor service makes use of technology developed by CRYPTOCard...
Renewal or Replacement of the MFCF/CSCF Two factor Authentication System (SecurID) (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) Motivation As of June 1st 2005, we are...
Using your CRYPTOCard KT token for the first time You will be issued a token along with an inital PIN. You will have to change your PIN at first login. Guide for...
Setting up a Linux host for Using LDAP Accounts and TwoFactor Authentication These instructions assume you are using Ubuntu 7.04, so YMMV. First, install some packages...
MikeGore 2016 04 05 UEFI booting and tools UEFI settings and documents https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI Thisdocuments cover UEFI BIOS settings...
HOWTO: Run UML with VLANs When testing different VLANs, it is common to have multiple computers on a VLAN with similar or same configurations. Other times, there is...
CSCF Linux Configuration Management Purpose The purpose of this project is to deploy a functioning BCfg2 server and associated infrastructure elements in order to...
Project to resolve the bind/unbind problem with our MacOSX labs Master ST item 84510 Meetings 2012 11 30 Edward, Stephen, Trevor query/interrogate client...
CSCF Printing Infrastructure Renewal Purpose Provide a modern reliable printing infrastructure to replace our legacy CUPS and LPD services. Development plan (as...
CSCF Printing Infrastructure Renewal Purpose Convert SE lab to linux. Implementation target: Sept 1, 2012 Development plan (as of 2012 3 1) develop linux...
MikeGore 2014 05 13 ASUS UX32U imaging notes Imaging Options PXE based imaging does not work Reasons: None of the boot images we use have Ethernet...
Ubuntu First Impressions These are notes based on Image 0.99 (May 12/2006). This is a list of tasks Lawrence needed to do early on. Maybe we can get some of these...
Ubuntu For Surplus (This page is Obsolete) These notes are for a image of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS we put together specifically for putting onto machines destined for surplus...
Ubuntu How To Questions and answers about how to accomplish various tasks in the CSCF standard Ubuntu image. See Also: DebianHowTo General environment Q: How do...
Ubuntu Image Creation (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) This TWIKI is current the standard for Research and GradPC images Note: The following two alternate documents are...
Using Ubuntu in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Waterloo. (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) CSLinuxWorkingGroup meeting notes, mailing list info...
Ubuntu Inotify Tuning See man 5 proc and then in particular man 7 inotify . A demo was produced and presented which indicates how crucial tuning these parameters...
Ubuntu Inotify Tuning Demo 20191025 Or how something seemingly perplexing can devolve into something trivial I almost cancelled this as being too trivial. However...
Ubuntu Inotify Tuning Demo 20191025 Or how something seemingly perplexing can devolve into something trivial I almost cancelled this as being too trivial. However...
UBUNTU Install Notes (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) Image file location See also: CscfStWrkLinuxImageUpdates Linux images Location of Files...
Ubuntu Kernel Tuning In progress See man 5 proc and the many man pages it refers to. UbuntuInotifyTuning UbuntuInotifyTuningDemo20191025 AdrianPepper...
RonaldoGarcia 19 Jan 2011 Ubuntu Ldap Setup REF: https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/ADAddUbuntu#Introduction Install: ldap utils, krb5 user, libnss ldap,...
RonaldoGarcia 19 Jan 2011 Ubuntu LDAP Scripts ubuntu scripts Location: //asimov:/coregroup1/images/ubuntu scripts Updated: 13 May 2011 Install:...
See also ST#60268. This page refers specifically to Ubuntu 7.10, which is currently nearing release. I spent a couple of hours and came up with a list of issues we...
MikeGore 20 Mar 2012 ubuntu scripts Location \\ASIMOV\images\ubuntu scripts asimov:/coregroup1/images/ubuntu scripts FILES in this TWIKI are...
Xhier and Ubuntu Linux How well does xhier work with Ubuntu Linux? I took a machine, williams.cscf , running Warty Warthog and xhiered it from debian31.cscf . The...
Howto for Installing Xhier onto ubuntu Supplement for Ray`s solaris specific install howto. (http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/mfcf/internal/procedures/OS/Solaris/xhier...
Main.dlgawley 18 Nov 2010 The cscf adm account should be available on all CSCF administered Ubuntu hosts. If the account doesn`t exist or password doesn`t work report...
MikeGore 13 Feb 2008 Udev Notes on using and understanding Udev External References Udev Rules FAQ Usefull commands udevinfo list all of the...
MikePatterson 22 Jan 2005 1 shut down apache so nobody can make changes post backup. 1 cd /usr/local ; mkdir tmp ; tar zcf tmp/www20050122.tgz www/ wow,...
Main.ctucker 17 Nov 2005 Usage of Neoware Eon 4000 and E100 Terminals The Neoware Eon 4000 terminal is a natural extension of the thin client capabilities of an ordinary...
MikeGore 12 Oct 2005 Mike Gore, 20 Nov 2003 What How to set up User Mode Linux images (UML) as well as UML networking to the real world. References Full information...
The CSCF User Support Group Meetings User Support Group Meeting Notes (in CFPrivate) Operations Resources for PoCs which should aid them in managing software...
Local Debian Mirror We are running a nightly rsync from ftp.de.debian.org . We currently mirror the archives debian , debian non US and debian security...
VLAN and IP address space information (Do Not Migrate) This page documents established network assignments (that is manually maintained). For the definitive list...
MikeGore VMware Workstation setup Downloads Workstation Downloads look for `Get Free Trial` you will be prompted to enter the license key in the...
MikeGore 22 May 2020 Clonezilla image W10 1909 U1804 VM S20 ver1 Update 22 May 2020 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10 1909 U1804 VM S20 ver...
MikeGore 2019 04 23 Clonezilla image W10U18042 VM 400G S19 V1 Update 10 Oct 2019 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/W10U18042 VM 400G S19 V1 Summary...
Vault file service: User Documentation Nextcloud User Manual https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user manual/ Overview This service provides a `DropBox...
Installation and Configuration of Virtual Machines Introduction Wikipedia (virtual machines) states that a virtual machine is a software implementation of a machine...
Location DC2303E Lab Location: DC2303E Just inside CGL LAB first door on left People Yuri Boykov https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~yboykov/ Olga Veksler...
Visitor Accounts The below is out of date for the easiest provisioning of wireless only accounts. Please see: Help Desk Guide: Network Access for Visitors We have...
Windows Vista Setup and Applications (obsolete) System Default Browser and Email applications Notes MicroSoft has yet again changed the way you access default...
VMWARE VMWare licenses Computer Science maintains a license key for Research and Teaching purposes. See VMwareLicense for details VMWare is pre installed on...
MikeGore 2014 06 04 Running a VM in VMware Workstation as a service under Linux The Attached script called vmware run can be used to run a VM as a service under...
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:53:21 0400 From: Nancy Day To: Mike Patterson Subject: today`s meeting Hi Mike I should have sent this earlier, but here are the big items...
WatForm Meeting Minutes 19 August 0930 1030 Present: (CSCF) Mike Patterson, Lawrence Folland, (WatForm) Jo Atlee, Nancy Day, Mark Aagaard Nancy gave a quick overview...
Time 1500 1600h Present: MikePatterson, LawrenceFolland, Nancy Day Covered ok to use Linux only on Wens` replacement PC (he`ll get rainylake, ST#46040) Jo...
5 April 2005, meeting started 1535h ended 1600h Present: Nancy Day, MikePatterson Only a few items: 1 Nancy can`t actually see the details linked from here. (Hrm...
Meeting 4 May 2005 started 1300 ended 1345 Present: Nancy Day, MikePatterson, LawrenceFolland Mark would like to upgrade chaco (workstation here) and `rainylake`...
MikeGore 2013 12 02 WatItis Network Imaging 2013 Network Based Image Deployment for Linux/Windows Operating Systems When: 2:30 PM to 3:15 PM December 3rd...
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Windows This page is to document issues relating to the administration of Windows machines in Math and CS Installation notes for CSCF WindowsInCS CSCF Windows...
MikeGore 2016 03 02 This page is intended for general links specific images should be documented under https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/CscfGradImageNotes...
Windows Apps on Asimov Common Windows Applications and links # File links and applications available on the CS Applications Server Local resources WindowsInCS...
Mounting an Ext3 File System on Windows Mounting an ext3 file system under Windows can be done in various ways. However, out of all the programs I (AlexRoman) have...
Installing Windows on a new laptop For IBM Thinkpad Laptops see the IBM SoftwareInstaller Note: these instructions were written while installing an IBM Thinkpad...
MikeGore 15 Feb 2005 Mapping your UNIX home directory to your PC using SAMBA services on smb files.cs.uwaterloo.ca Where are the files kept ? All of the cpu1XX...
Windows Test Suite Here we list a series of features that should run under our standard Windows installation, or any time we want to test various features of hardware...
Windows Wireless Networking Note The University uses EDUROAM authentication and requires userid@uwaterloo.ca for userid and your WATIAM password In some locations...
Mucho information in two RTs, 52482 and 51689. Succinctly, nugget is a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server. We wanted to install a Xen kernel and get some guest operating...
MikeGore 05 Nov 2010 Xerox Phaser 8560DN Printer in DC2305 Usage Notes Xerox Phaser 8560DN printer is only intended for DS and ALGORITHMS and COMPLEXITY Group...
Configuring the Xerox Phaser 8400 printer under Linux Mike Gore Nov 2005 Using CUPS and PPD files Please refer to CupsOnLinux before starting Download...
Setting up the Xerox Versalink B7035 CS Xerox printers Installing VersaLink B7035 printer on a Mac Open the Mac`s System Preferencs Select Printers Scanners...
Setting up the Xerox WorkCentre 5335 Printer Note: June 2012 copied these notes from XeroxWorkCenter128 details need to be verified CS Xerox printers CSCF...
NetBSD`s pkgsrc has been ported to many operating systems we care about Darwin (Mac OS X), IRIX, Linux, Solaris, the other BSDs, and more. Can we integrate it with...
From: Jeff Voskamp Subject: Re: porting xhier to new architecture Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:53:43 0400 Mailer: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en US; rv...
Herewith are my notes on my attempts to port xhier to FreeBSD. 26 August 2004 Start with a vmware machine to test things on. Set it up on williams.cscf and...
MikePatterson 13 Oct 2004 New machine, I scooped a dual P3 from Phil. I had started noting what I did in XhierOnFreeBSD, but the hard disk barfed and the previous...
MikePatterson 14 Mar 2005 scrub the existing software tree ( rm r /{vendor,xhbin} , clear out /fsys1/.software , recreate links, etc). Set capo`s access rights...
So we started again. Dave lied to debian30 and told it that it`s the archmaster for freebsd5. Try just a plain xh first time. Dave found the same stuff I did. Dave...
Meeting time 6 April, 2005, 1430h 1600h Initial notes by DanielAllen 07 Apr 2005 Today Dave showed us the draft of his new script to automate ray`s instructions...
Meeting time Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 1330h 1430h Initial notes by DanielAllen Present: Dave Gawley, DanielAllen, Ray Butterworth, and Steven Nickerson. Since two of...
07 March 2005 meeting start 1300h finish 1345h Present: LawrenceFolland, DanielAllen, MikePatterson, Dave Gawley, Guoxiang Shen, Steve Nickerson, Ray Butterworth...
Meeting time Monday, 16 May 2005, 1400h 1500h Initial notes by DanielAllen Present: Dave Gawley, Ray Butterworth, MikePatterson, DanielAllen, Chris Calzonetti,...
21 February 2005 Present: Guoxiang Shen, David Gawley, DanielAllen, MikePatterson, ChristopherCalzonetti, LawrenceFolland. We`re interested in xhiering several new...
Selected Notes on the ZFS File System Layers device: HDD, SSD, iSCSI vdev: tree of: stripe, mirror, raidz1, raidz2, device pool: vdevs of: data, write...
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