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3D Printing Guide This is a 3D printing guide for CSCF`s 3D printer. While the documentation on this page is mainly for internal use, others may be able to benefit...
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Main.ctucker 23 Nov 2010 How to Mount Kerberized NFS Shares as a Member of the CSCF Active Directory Document UNDER DEVELOPMENT and intended for use in CSCF University...
Configuring a Macintosh Computer to Authenticate Against the CSCF Active Directory The following needs updates to handle the current MacOSX. It`s possible that this...
Main.ctucker 27 Oct 2006 How to Authenticate a SAMBA Server as a Domain Member of the CSCF Active Directory. This is an outline for how to join a SAMBA 3.0 server...
Main.ctucker 13 Feb 2007 How to Authenticate a SAMBA system as a member of the NEXUS Environment. This page outlines how to join a SAMBA 3.0 server (the samba 3....
Note this page is no longer up to date! How to Authenticate a Solaris 10 System as a Member of the CSCF Active Directory This document outlines how to fully authenticate...
Authenticating an Ubuntu machine using the CS Active Directory Note that when setting up LDAP access for a host which happens to be running as a LXC container,...
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 02 Nov 2005 Configuring a Windows Computer to Authenticate Against the CSCF Active Directory Requirements Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 computer...
Main.ctucker 22 Nov 2011 Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Apple Schema Extension File Below is the contents of an LDIF file which we used to implement Apple schema...
Main.ctucker 27 Sep 2006 CSCF Active Directory: Delegation of Authority, Standards and Practices Up until very recently, all management in the Active Directory was...
Main.ctucker 28 Oct 2005 Active Directory Disaster Recovery Any Active Directory Disaster Recovery procedure involves re establishing forest domain controllers back...
Main.ctucker 28 Oct 2005 CSCF Directory Services DNS Configuration CSCF manages four general use DNS servers for the School of Computer Science (SCS), dc dns 1, dc...
Active Directory Federation Service As of May 2019, CAS authentication on University of Waterloo systems is now deprecated. ADFS is the new standard for campus wide...
Main.ctucker 28 Oct 2005 CSCF Active Directory Forest UNDER CONSTRUCTION: to be updated to new AD service design Fall 2019 The previous CSCF Active Directory is structured...
Kerberos Principals for Unix based Services in Active Directory A service principal is needed whenever you want to provide Single Sign on for users that have already...
Enabling LDAPS on Active Directory Domain Controllers This document describes 2 approaches on how to set up domain controllers in AD to listen for SSL wrapped LDAP...
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...
Integration of Macintosh Authentication and Management into Active Directory This document relates to MAC OS X 10.6.8 and needs to be updated to reflect current conditions...
Main.ctucker 02 Feb 2006 Main.iturner 20 Apr 2006 Sept 2009 Binding a Macintosh Client Through Command Scripting During testing, it was discovered that it is...
Main.ctucker 28 Oct 2005 CSCF Migration Path From NT4 Domain to Active Directory The full deliberations that took place with respect to migrating CS Windows computing...
Establishing A PaperCut Remote Server Within A Separate Directory Service Domain Or Kerberos Realm The campus wide PaperCut distributed printing system (called uPrint...
Main.ctucker 28 Oct 2005 Active Directory Password Synchronization with Core and Teaching Regions Complete deliberations concerning the development of password synchronization...
ClaytonTucker 2014 03 03 Domain System State Backups When it comes to backing up the controllers (DCs) in an Active Directory (AD) forest, each DC is a backup of...
Thoughts Concerning The Planning Of A Campus Wide Directory Service By Clayton Tucker Manager of CSCF`s Active Directory Forest, Forest Architect and Enterprise...
Main.ctucker 04 Aug 2010 Plan For Implementing Campus Active Directory Prototype As Proof Of Concept ADUwCampus outlines a proposed Active Directory forest structure...
Main.ctucker 14 Aug 2006 Basic Workstation Management In The CS GENERAL Domain This document is written mostly for the benefit of the CSCF Research Group and all...
RobynLanders 14 Aug 2008 Active Directory and Accounts Management Movitation It has been our intent that accounts management should be automated and should tie in...
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...
AV Suppliers Christine Henderson from UW Procurement purchases all AV equipment. chenderson #64;uwaterloo.ca ext:32854 ADVANCED PRESENTATION PRODUCTS Mississauga...
Preparation for Absences When we are away (typically for vacations), we want to be sure that all who need to know do. That`s our CSCF colleagues, and CSCF clients...
How to access the Visibull Interface Visibull.tv is a web based digital signage service under beta test by the School of Computer Science. It will allow any computer...
User Account Setup Introduction A good place to put in notes about anything related to accounts in the CSCF context, whether they be user, system, groups, etc. Technical...
The old account configuration using the xhier packages setpw This page is really just history... How do restricted shells get put into a passwd file Specifically...
Filesystem Group Definitions We want to document what each filesystem group we have is used for. That is to ensure consistent usage, and information for auditors....
userinfo command Although the userinfo command is available for use by all users, with different results, the intended audience for this page is the group of...
Adding Network Printers on the Mac Adding Network Printer, such as Xerox Download and install drivers download drivers from the vendor eg: Ricoh: http...
Note: The parent topic for this topic does not exist Administrative Applications How to: post events notices using WebCalendar. edit the Ongoing Series...
CSCF Support for Administrative Computing These notes are intended to provide an overview of how the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF) User Support Group...
Administration This section covers those areas that are (were) typically handled by the CSCF Administrator Accounts Accounts top level collection of notes...
Product Title Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 Product Home Page http://www.adobe.com/ Product Release notes Summary Supported Platforms Mac OS X, and MS XP, Vista...
Flailing around trying to get a handle on psql here at UW DRCSCS CSCF Preliminaries to enable your connection and use To be filled in later. Connecting and looking...
Adrian Pepper Demo Test Page in CF TWiki Here is text in Adrian Pepper`s test page AdrianPepperTest . This page was merely created to demonstrate something. Making...
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...
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After Hours Support Email As described in http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/about/after hours support, there is a mailing list for urgent after hours problem reports...
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...
Android Phones We have a number (90?) of Android Phones for teaching purposes Usage notes Updating firmware This was originally documented in ST#77256 First update...
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...
Apache Error Log Viewer web application Background This application allows owners of `~user` web pages on the CS webserver to view error logs for their pages. Access...
Main.iturner 29 Mar 2010 Attachments not yet available Apple Connect 2010 Toronto March 14 19, 2010 Conference Notes Parallels bare metal allows GoDaddy to be...
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Software/Applications Installation This documents (extra) information about the installation of specific applications. When the page gets too big, we`ll make per application...
MikeGore 2015 07 22 Asimov Old to New Data Migration script Important this script maps the old file system layout into the new filesystem layout on the new...
Asset Disposal Forms These forms are used when equipment is to be sent to Central Stores for surplus (see SurplusEquipment). These forms are kept in the `Forms` drawer...
Middle Atlantic parts we commonly use to order 1 MiddleAtlantic Low Profile Wall mount Mini TR 4 rack spaces with 4` square power box in right corner Part Number...
Setting up Apache2::AuthCAS client on Ubuntu Feisty Server Use of this module is not recommended as it has a poor security history. These instructions assume you...
Authentication Task Group Purpose The purpose of the authentication task group is to determine directions for authentication services within the School of Computer...
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CSCF Automated Deployment An overview of the various technologies at work providing automated deployment of workstations/servers in CSCF. Basic Architecture We use...
MikeGore 15 Apr 2010 Avast Antivirus Avast Avast Fixes With recent Virus Definition Updates we get the error An error occurred in avast! engine: Invalid argument...
Backups Notes on various backup systems available for use in the Computer Science and Math environments Macs BackupMacs notes on backing up Macs for Staff...
Backup using Areca These notes describe how to setup backups using the UW.Areca backup software Making a Backup Job Instructions: Create a new target, you...
Backups for Macintosh using the Legato System or Snapshots or Apple TimeMachine For Faculty and Staff To verify that your Mac is being backed up by Legato Networker...
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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...
USING RIM Blackberries at UW Here we will gather notes on selecting, purchasing and configuring RIM Blackberries. While many faculty may purchase a Blackberry on...
Supporting Blackberries on Campus These notes are courtesy of Cathy Cooper, ODAA, in preparation for a talk at the 2005 Conference What does BB offer you? Wireless...
Selecting a Blackberry Model These notes were taken from an email from Cathy Cooper, ODAA Info for selecting a BB model As you can imagine, there are pros and...
Setting up vacation mail for Blackberry Users These notes were based on an email from Cathy Cooper, ODAA Setting up vacation mail in myWaterloo BB users cannot...
These are incomplete. There`s probably some junk in associated RTs. Notes regarding getting the T3 array working with bonneville`s internal fibre channel adapter...
Bootcamp is a well established means of having more than one OS available on Apple hardware; the selection is made at boot time. Check DeployStudio for procedures...
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 Installation Version 0.6.5 USB mouse did not work after booting up Solution: ran mdetect, which said the device was: /dev...
Main.ctucker 14 Jan 2009 Creation of CSCF Windows 2008 Standard Server Image Sun Fire Hardware Windows Server 2008 will not install on to old Sun hardware such as...
For years I`ve wanted to have a PC with a pair of network cards that I can use to bridge between `the internets` and a suspected compromised PC. Ideally we can just...
Creating and Populating a Debian / Ubuntu Package Repository This document will briefly describe building a debian package from source, and adding the package to a...
The account files are located at the following location /software/accounts master/data/resources/computing/pippin.cs We need to parse this file either...
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...
Business Cards and Letterhead Who to ask Go to the Graphics web site for business cards: https://uwaterloo.ca/creative services/waterloo stationery orders#bcards...
Central Authentication Service Central Authentication Service ( CAS ) is the IST central authentication service being replaced by ADFS on November 1, 2020. It appears...
CFI New Opportunities 2001 Some of the machines purchased under this grant: 1 curumin, curupira (run IRIX) SGI O2 and SGI Origin 3xxx series 1 mudge, tumbo...
CFI New Opportunities 2002 Primary Investigator: Arne Storjohan PilatusNotes information about pilatus and how to use it ShutdownPilatus how do I make...
CFI New Opportunities Grant 2003 Primary Investigator: Orchard CFINewOpportunities2003Members list of collaborators for this CFI PilatusAccounts how...
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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...
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...
CSCF Software Notes Software Task Group Meetings and notes from the Campus SoftwareTaskForce Software Information CSCF Standards Standard Software Applications...
CSCF Support for ESQ The ESQ (Engineering Science Quest) outreach program has, for the past few years, `borrowed` a Mac Lab from the SCS to support their computing...
CSCF Website to WCMS Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose is to design and implement a new public facing CSCF website in the campus Web Content...
CSCF Newsgroups CSCF still uses newsgroups for some communication involving both their clients and their staff. In addition to the Unix based `Pnews` command, postings...
Faculty Information System is a project originating in Engineering Computing, now expanding to be useful campus wide (for increasing values of `useful` and increasing...
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 Linux Working Group Mandate Based on the Infrastructure group`s and https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/#csi guidelines guidelines; collaborate...
CS network ACL summary work in progress please send comments to trg We`ve requested a summary (with regular ongoing updates and maintenance) of the ACLs applied...
CS Office Assignment System Interface Summary This outlines the different views (including editing views) needed for various people. Room Assignment Editor Staff...
CS SaltStack Working Group Mandate reasonable people trying to reach reasonable conclusions on what setup pieces should managed and how to manage our Large Integrated...
MikeGore 02 Aug 2006 Ethernet Cable Color Coding Standard Credits The diagrams on this page were copied from http://www.incentre.net/incentre/frame/ethernet...
Cacti Monitoring Tool The CSCF cacti install is located on watcher.cscf and is accessible via cacti.cscf. Cacti Monitoring See CactiMonitoring Setup Installation...
The intention for this page is to collect `interesting` links to Cacti graphs. In addition to CPU usage and `number of users` information, other statistics (e.g....
CamelCase When two or more words are conjoined, with the start of each contained word capitalized, that is often called CamelCase. WikiWords are CamelCase. AdrianPepper...
CanHEIT / HPCS 2016 CanHEIT CUCCIO oversees the annual Canadian Higher Education Information Technology Conference, known as CANHEIT. With a focus on IT issues of...
Canceling Course News Posts Course accounts are able to cancel news articles to the course`s uw.cs newsgroup with the cancel news script. articles may be...
Installing and Configuring Captive NTFS NOTE THAT THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL AND IS GUARANTEED NOT TO WORK. IF YOU GET IT WORKINGm, YOU ARE LUCKY. I, AlexRoman, WILL POST...
Casper Suite 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 version...
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...
IBM Blade Centre in DC 3556. We`re calling it muscat . Liz Valiant from IBM says that http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/redp4264.html?Open...
24 January 2008 Ken, Ashraf, Mike technical meeting. 1 Why can`t Ken connect to the mgmt module from zonker? 1 Stable part of the blades: 4 for now 1 How...
CertBot a tool for making HTTPS certificates work automatically CertBot (actually Certbot or certbot, so not inherently a twikiword) is software designed to keep Encrypt...
Maintenance of SSL Certificate This page lists links to a number of pages I presented elsewhere with different subsets expanded. In the collapsed form here, readers...
openssl command The openssl command is available for use by all users. The intended audience for this page is system administrators who can submit requests...
openssl command degenerative examples The openssl command is available for use by all users. The intended audience for this page is system administrators who...
Certificate Updates Here we describe the procedures for updating SSL certificates for web servers (https), IMAP servers (imaps), and other similar services (Dawn/Adrian...
Cfengine Introduction Cfengine stands for configuration engine and is a tool using declarative language to configure computers. Setup in CSCF Cfengine is being used...
CFI 2004 (Kevin Hare) Cluster setup and configuration Initial Setup Several RTs for pre cluster setup experimentation: 53551 Setup test cluster with stored...
Changing the Mac Short Name In our world, the short name should match the UWDir entry, for ease in printer quota / access, and easier ssh access to our hosts. Leopard...
ST#53793 for the primary motivation for this. 1 Edit /etc/hosts on this box it was nearly empty, guess it never got updated. The host`s idea of its own IP...
Checkbox Hardware test tools: Checkbox Utility that comes with Ubuntu 16.04 to do hardware checking. Good graphic tool that performs hardware tests in Ubuntu...
Chiba A work around servlet that converts XForms to a combination of HTML and Javascript. example of XForms emulation. Chiba project home. IlguizLatypov...
Workgroup Manager preferences Open Workgroup Manager and select preferences on the top bar Change listing from users to groups (multiple heads) Slect...
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Purpose Example of creating a cluster like cabernet with multiple networks, using a set of virtual machines. Host VMware cluster setup prerequisites Most of...
ClusterInformationAggregationTool (CIAT) This page is for a staff meeting presentation. Usage instructions can be found on the project repository. Problem ~...
Checking Your Cluster Status While logged in as root, run `system config display` in order to initially set up your X config file. Back at the root prompt, run `startx...
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 Cluster DNSMASQ Setup dnsmasq provides DHCP, DNS ad, TFTPBOOT services for the cluster Makefile make is the only file run by and...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 firewall NAT services What: Provides NAT and firewall services for internal private networks in a cluster Installs as a service in...
MikeGore 2015 08 27 IDrac Scripts for Dell clusters IDrac is a Dell specific remote management tool set alternative to ipmitool see ClusterToolsIPMITOOL...
Cluster Tools IPMItool See: IpmiTool for general information ipmitool usage and scripts for controlling IPMI enabled devices ipmitool scripts Notes:...
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...
Clusters This page will collect the information/tools for building and administering clusters Building Clusters UndergradCluster Ed`s notes on building ugster...
Main.ctucker 17 Nov 2005 Network Configuration for CSCF Managed Neoware Eon 4000 and E100 Terminals If you are setting up the terminals with only one monitor/keyboard...
Command Documentation: getpw This turns out to duplicate getent , which is already available on Solaris and Linux. The standard getent should be used instead...
Communication Planned Outages After Hours Support Sharing (Critical) Information Posters for research labs with information on who to contact in emergencies...
Videography inside the School of Computer science Equipment The School of Computer Science has the following equipment for use in videoing presentations or events...
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...
Main.ctucker 10 Jul 2006 Conversion Procedure For csterm Eons to tc Eons CSCF is currently converting (renaming and renumbering) all supported CS thin client terminals...
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...
Creating a Course Account in WatIAM As part of moving email to a central system, we`re creating WatIam for course accounts (ST #88866). There are two parts to this...
Course Coordinators In addition to instructors, who are the immediate clients for Points of Contact, there are course coordinators (previously/also known as `outline...
Course Evaluation Data Processing and Storage Course Evaluation sources (evaluate.uwaterloo.ca) are validated against Quest records of instructors/sections for a...
The Course Evaluation Database is stored on postgres165.cs.uwaterloo.ca aka postgres.odyssey under user course eval ui and schema course eval . It also uses...
Course Evaluation Phase Two project CSCF Master ST Item ST#93435 Project Charter Introduction The Faculty of Math is responsible for collecting and reporting student...
Course Evaluation System Sysadmin Documentation This page is meant to include all useful instructions for maintaining the course evaluations by CSCF sysadmins Table...
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...
Barcode Creation For basic, background understanding of barcodes, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode In order to produce the following equipment is...
Create Your Own Certificate Authority (CA) To Secure https For All YubiKey Servers Most of what you will read here was derived from the following blog post and uses...
Create a CUPS printer on cups.cs.uwaterloo.ca This is the step by step process to add a new printer to the cups.cs printing queue. IN this example we are adding...
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...
Creating Group Accounts This probably needs more details and/or to be generalized. However, in order to have a group added to our Active Directory, the group needs...
Rough procedure for mastering an image to be used on the gradpc`s. 1 Ensure system is up to date (apt get update apt get dist upgrade) and that all applications...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 03 17 Invitees Attendees Dave, Devon, Fraser, Gouxiang, Lawrence (breifly), Lori Review and accept previous...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 02 15 Invitees Attendees Anthony, Gouxiang, Lori, Nathan, Nick, Lawrence Review and accept previous meeting...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 03 17 Invitees Attendees Anthony, Gouxiang, Lori, Nathan, Nick, Lawrence Review and accept previous meeting...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 04 27 Invitees Attendees Anthony, Gouxiang, Lori, Nathan, Nick, Lawrence Review and accept previous meeting...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 06 16 Invitees Attendees Dave, Gouxiang, Lori, Nathan, Nick, Lawrence Review and accept previous meeting...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 07 21 Invitees Attendees Dave, Gouxiang, Lori, Nathan, Nick, Anthony, O Review and accept previous meeting...
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...
June `06 Meeting Date: 14 June 2006. Meeting: 3:30pm 4:30pm Present: Daniel, Mike, Phil, Walter. Agenda decommissioning debian30.math by the end of the month...
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...
Linux Working Group Agenda Meeting Date TEAMS: Wednesday, Jan 26, 10:30 to 11:55pm Attendees arpepper, ldpaniak, a2brenna, ctucker, nfish, gxshen, gboerke...
Linux Working Group Agenda Meeting Date TEAMS: Tueday, Feb 9, 10:30 to 11:55pm Attendees arpepper, a2brenna, ctucker, fhgunn, gxshen, ldpaniak, nfish...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 7 13 Invitees Attendees Dave, Adrian, Anthony, Clayton, Devon, Fraser, Guoxiang, Lori, Nathan, Nick Review...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 11 02 Invitees Attendees Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 11 18 Invitees Attendees ldpaniak, a2brenna, lfolland, dlgawley, nfish, fhgunn, omnafees, gxshen, tlichty...
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Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 01 12 Invitees Attendees Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan...
Linux Working Group Invitees Attendees Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave, Lawrence, Omar...
Linux Working Group Invitees Attendees Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave, Lawrence, Omar...
Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED Invitees Attendees Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Todd, Omar Review...
Linux Working Group Invitees Attendees Invited: Anthony, Adrian, Guoxiang, Clayton, Lori, Fraser, Nathan, Dave, Omar, Devon, Todd, Nick, Lawrence Review...
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Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED MEETING DEFERRED 2 WEEKS Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 06 15 Invitees Attendees Invited: Anthony (group leader), Clayton...
Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 06 15 Attendees Anthony (group leader), Guoxiang, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Todd, Dave, Omar...
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Discussion of Scope Summary OFIS was designed with one faculty`s data needs in mind. There is data in CS reports that is not currently captured in OFIS...
SaltStak Working Group Agenda Meeting Date TEAMS: Wednesday, Jan 12, 2021 Attendees Anthony, Dave, Gordon, Lori, Nathan, Lawrence Agenda git/Saltstack standards...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 Attendees Anthony, Dave, Gordon, Lori, Nathan, Lawrence Discussion Items What Saltstack...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Attendees nfish, a2brenna, ldpaniak, lfolland Review and accept previous meeting...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: Wednesday, February 23, 2021 Attendees Dave: absent, Anthony, Lawrence, Lori, Nathan Review and accept previous...
Setup Ubuntu/Linux/Gnu frontends (deprecated pre 2012, see CSCF Ubuntu Setup Information) A description of what a frontend is Strictly speaking, frontends really...
Different Methods of Deploying the Grad Workstation Image To a System This section will give a brief description on the different possible ways to apply the Grad Workstation...
Notes on Particular Versions of the Grad Workstation Image References CloneZilla clonezilla documents An index to this page listed by Motherboard / Laptop...
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...
NET Books/Boxes Net books/boxes refers to low power, small foot print, computing devices meant to be an alternative to current full powered systems. Typical uses are...
CSCF OFIS Testbed OFIS testbed lives on cscfpc19.cs.uwaterloo.ca. Currently running lighttpd and fcgi php. Does not currently contain OFIS clone; OFIS db is configured...
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 Teaching Setup for a New Term In preparation for an upcoming term, there are various activities that mostly happen between terms: email instructors and...
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...
Configuration of the cscf urgent Mailing List The cscf urgent mailing list is implemented by an email alias in the cscf specific package: cscf urgent: cscf urgent...
The Administration of the CUPS PYKOTA server cups.cs This document is primarily addressed to system administrators who have root access but is also valuable for...
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...
MikeGore 23 Nov 2011 Ubuntu Custom Launcher Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04 Note: In this example we will create a launcher for a program called Maple14 Right click...
Cyclades Configuration Database / Tool: Participants: DanielAllen, Dave Gawley; advice by FraserGunn. Demo at: http://lurch.uwaterloo.ca/cyclades/ As per Dave`s requirements...
Upgrading Cyclades TS2000 from 1.3.4 to 1.4.0 3 (DRAFT) This is a draft document; regular disclaimers apply. Reasons for upgrade ftp://ftp.cyclades.com/pub/cyclades...
MikeGore 05 Oct 2006 Cyclades Console Server User Guide Links for CSCF and MFCF Links brief guide to using the MFCF and CSCF Cyclades console servers HTML...
CygWin installation installation files can be found in \exports\software\cygwin run setup.exe install from Local Directory use the offered directory...
Notes on the organization of DC3556 Shutdown procedure There are many research groups using dc3556 that will need to be advised of any room shutdowns: Tetherless...
DFS/FSS Monitoring Attributes to monitor via Nagios and report to e mail/Slack HDD SMART condition (include reallocated blocks, temperatures) ZFS pool condition...
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...
DHCP helper address configuration tool Our DHCP helper specifications tends to drift towards complete inaccuracy over time. I have created a simple PHP script that...
The DHCP information system in Computer Science Overview CSCF CSI provides a DHCP infrastructure for computers, printers and other devices on its networks. This...
DNSMASQ ASIMOV configuration Note: in the document DNSMASQ refers to the dnsmasq scripts home directory Rererences https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view...
MikeGore 2018 06 28 DNSMASQ Multiarch PXE booting Summary This is a standalone version of the DNSMASQ PXE boot configuration process that removed all of the...
Daily Regimen There are activities that we generally need to do every (work)day. It`s easy to miss some of these, so they`re worth enumerating: check your calendar...
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CSCF Access to Public Data In general, access to data that is public (to whatever extent), is best mediated by some system. E.g. it`s not considered ideal to provide...
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...
CSCF Data Point of Contact The data describing the Points of Contact is maintained in three places. Research For research, the data resides in the Subscriptions...
Database Services provided by CSCF Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database Management System Database Management Systems operated by CSCF IBM...
`apps` database cluster Purpose and Layout The `apps` database cluster contains databases to support internally developed applications for the School. The cluster...
This cluster is available via the default port on postgres.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca. The purpose is to make available a Postgres installation for instructional purposes...
PostgreSQL Users Cluster This cluster is available via the default port on postgres.cs.uwaterloo.ca. The purpose is to make available a Postgres installation to CS...
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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 Location of Files: \\asimov.cscf.uwaterloo.ca\sysprep\SYSPRIMG\CSCF DEB Install the split image. root wants to be /dev/hda5 (first partiton...
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...
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Denial of Service We are continually bombarded with outside attempts to connect to our systems, to break in. It`s mostly `ssh` attempts to login to well known userids...
DenyHosts References See Documentation: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ FAQ and Issues Excerpt: What is DenyHosts? DenyHosts is a script intended to be run...
About Departing CSCF Employees When someone moves on, we need to remove references to them from various documentation, and access to various systems. Most of what...
DeployStudio DeployStudio allows administrators to image and deploy Macintosh machines in a more efficient and less time consuming process. Unlike other methods such...
Deploy Studio Imaging and deployment links and notes. Deployment Planning Template http://www.peachpit.com/content/downloads/peachpit/bookreg/DeploymentPlanningTemplate...
Managing and editing workflows are what is behind the real power of DeployStudio. Workflows can be managed for creating system images for both Mac and Windows partitions...
AlexRoman 19 Nov 2004 Web development under Windows Downloading Download the latest Apache 2 series Win32 Binary (MSI Installer) package from http://httpd...
Devon`s Work Guide and Responsibilities This is where I`ll link to my documentation and any other important information. Most of my typically used resources can be...
Project Charter Dfs C See also: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CFPrivate/DFSC Current Layout 3 servers ( 422), in dc,mc,m3 Hardware: Each server...
DHCP Debug tool Based on work done by Ethan Galstad (nagios #64;nagios.org) for the nagiosplugin Original source file CHECK DHCP.C (see source for full...
Digital Door Sign Project Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose is to investigate, prototype, and deploy a web based `door sign` for staff in...
Digital Door Sign Comments and Feedback Following are comments and feedback on the design and implementation which might eventually be implemented, but are beyond...
Digital Door Sign Specifications This web based door sign should have two visual parts. Both should work from desktop web browser and from phone. staff input...
Digital Door Sign User Stories Here are some user stories to suggest how we anticipate the digital door signs being used. Nick, a CSCF staff person, is in a meeting...
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...
MikeGore 20 Jan 2012 Disk Scheduler Optimization #!/bin/bash # # Mike Gore, 20 Jane 2012 # Fix disk scheduler # List all out disks disks `ls /dev/sd?` # noop anticipatory...
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...
Per CSCF RSG meeting of 12 April 2005, we need some standards for exactly what information we put in DNS (particularly the text records) for what machines. This is...
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Standards for Internal Documentation Our internal documentation is that documentation we produce to help us provide computing support to our clients, that we don`t...
Documentation Standards 2022 A lot has changed since the original creation of the DocumentationStandards Those `standards` were never fully adopted and agreed upon...
Documentation Standards Note: this is a proposed set of standards for documentation within CSCF and should not be considered official at this time Comments...
Inventory Domain Name Extension Proposal (draft) Introduction IST is changing the schema of their IP Management system (currently `Maintain`). Historically, campus...
Door Signs It is helpful to clients and co workers to let people know whether you`re in today or when you`ll be back. A number of staff have created door signs that...
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DreamWeaver Configuration This page is to document the proper DreamWeaver configuration settings to work with the CS web server. As of this writing, it is based upon...
WiebeTech Drive Erazer Description CS009000 is a WiebeTech Drive Erazer Ultra. It is capable of securely wiping hard drives without the use of a full machine running...
ST#55528. First 1 destroy the d5 metadevice: metaclear f /dev/md/dsk/d5 (won`t work without the f) 1 rebuild the d5 metadevice: metainit d5 r c1t0d0s...
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...
EDocs Introduction We have created a standardized location for electronic documents. The original purpose was for storing Purchase Orders and quotes in a shared...
Understanding EFI and its role in NetBoot Where is it on the machine, how big is it, and what can you do with it? See also rEFInd boot manager from sourceforge...
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EduRoam EduRoam is an international service where members from one university can authenticate using their home credentials while visiting another university. This...
Email stuff SpamAssassin, Client Notes, Mailing Lists, etc. Standard Setup In this section, we will try to describe how email is typically setup for the following...
Email Aliases System wide aliases are typically stored in /etc/aliases. However, in most xhier managed systems on campus, you cannot simply edit those files. Instead...
Email Directions The goal is to provide a fast, reliable and flexible mail service to CS clients. How will we do that? Current services mail.cs mbox mail service...
Email forwarding for M365 accounts Setting up email forwarding can be done via Outlook or Outlook Web App. 1. Check to see if you have an account a. Try logging...
Migrating to maildir.cs OBSOLETE maildir.cs.uwaterloo.ca has completely vanished. TWiki page history will remain for the really curious. AdrianPepper 05 Jan...
Thunderbird mail account creation for maildir OBSOLETE maildir.cs.uwaterloo.ca has completely vanished. TWiki page history will remain for the really curious...
Handling email from Off Campus Several ISPs block port 25(SMTP) from leaving their networks. They expect that you will only use their mail services. This, I believe...
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...
Responding to Electronic Mail The Problem We have done multiple surveys of our clients, both general and review time surveys via mail/web/personal visits. A common...
THIS PAGE IS NOW OBSOLETE It was too specific to the old Solaris 8 environment running an old version of University of Washington IMAP. Resolving a type of crisis...
EmailUndergradMailReset OBSOLETE This page content became truly irrelevant a number of years ago. TWiki page history will remain for the really curious. AdrianPepper...
Emergency Contact Posters We have designed a poster to be put into research labs with information about who to contact in various emergencies (fire, police, flooding...
List of databases to be moved List of databases and the stakeholders to be notified if there are issues Stage 1 equipment : Inventory (CSCF and MFCF)...
Enterprise Mysql Cluster Project Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose is to set up a Highly Available clustered mysql database to support general...
Meeting: 2016 01 20 2pm Attended: drallen (project manager), dlgawley a2brenna fhgunn ldpaniak; gxshen arpepper were declared not necessary at this point (arpepper...
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 25 February 2016, 2pm Attended: drallen a2brenna fhgunn ldpaniak Agenda: Progress on Milestones Timeline Brief summary since the last meeting...
Implementation See https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/edocs/ProjectManagement/IAAS Database Systems/ for project documents including Work Breakdown Structure and...
Enterprise Mysql Cluster Project Wrapup Summary As of Tuesday 12 April 2016, the deliverables are either complete, or very minor steps away from completion. Below...
Support of the Teaching Computing Environment Here we`ll document maintenance information for the cs teaching `region`; the environment that uses the common student...
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...
Note: This topic is missing content at the end Drew Main.ctucker 18 Nov 2005 Scripting for Eon Thin Clients: The Work Horse of Eon Terminal Management The EZ...
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...
Equipment and Inventory Overview CSCF maintains a database of most of our equipment. As equipment comes in we assign a barcode to most items and then record Model...
Equipment Notes There is a new feature in the Inventory system that will display a link to web page in the Equipment Notes folder of eDocs. We currently have three...
Adding the UWDir LDAP address book to Evolution: Server: uwldap.uwaterloo.ca Use secure connection: No encryption Login method: Anonymously Search base: dc uwaterloo...
Here we discuss what to do if a Researcher wishes to sponsor an account (`resources`) for an ex grad student. Graduate Students would previously have had resources...
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...
Exam Seating, Data Extracts, and Postgres.student Migration Procedures Exam Seating See Also http://odyssey.uwaterloo.ca/teaching/ems/ Public facing information...
Exam Seating System Administrator Documentation The Exam Seating System is currently going through rapid changes. For this reason, it will be impossible to keep documentation...
Main.mdmewhor 22 Aug 2005 Subject: Graduate Studies Application Account Confirmation University of Waterloo School of Computer Science. Hello, Thank you for registering...
@plg2 102 % mail Mail version 4.3a 2003/04/29. Type ? for help. `/var/mail/mpatters`: 2 messages 1 MAILER DAEMON #64;plg2.math.uwaterlo `DON`T DELETE T` Sat...
Printing in Color on a Xerox WorkCentre 7535 Color Printer For this printing example, we will use the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 located in DC3507, called xrxpr003....
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...
ExpNet Networking Lab (Brecht/Karstem) Lab Manager Groves Servers The principal server with which we have any interaction is rocket, belonging principally...
Expense Claims Expense claims (e.g. for a conference or training) are done online. Using Concur Concur uses your WatIAM userid and password. Login page: https://uwaterloo...
Here`s my sources.list: deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian unstable main contrib non free deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian experimental main contrib non free (Once debian...
Expertise Database Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose of the project is to investigate, prototype, and deploy a public webpage that facilitates...
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Manage an External Domain in CS These notes were derived from Trevor Grove`s work on CS RT57874 Update: January 2011 be sure to read: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca...
Extremeware has several methods of MAC address security. General The switch generally... Allows data FROM port TO anywhere WHEN data is from a static...
Filemaker database remediation project CSCF Master ST item ST#91265 Project Charter Introduction `Filemaker` is a commercial desktop database application development...
Configuration for Mac use of FORE The following browser/plugin configurations have worked to allow PDF `drill downs`. Roloson, of MFCF, created a Down Test Page...
Troubleshooting Safari and the FORE Financial System Information for configuring Safari to work with the FORE system. MacConfigurationStepsToWorkWithTheFOREFinancialSystem...
Maintenance Documentation for FSS This document is deprecated in favor of https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CFPrivate/NextCloud vault and related pages This document...
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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: Reference Letter Uploads by Referees: Requirements The following corresponds to: ST#80445 Summary Currently, all reference letters are...
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...
Email and Address Book File Locations Outlook and Outlook Express File Locations Please see Microsoft document http://office.microsoft.com/en us/outlook/HP...
All files that are created at startup for a user Home directory are stored in the following area of pippin pippin:/System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj Home...
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...
Meeting: 2016 11 01 DC 2564 Attendance: Issac Morland; Lori D. Paniak; Nathan Fish Agenda: Discussion of haproxy/backend service layer 4 configuration. overview...
Meeting: 2016 11 18 DC 2102 Attendance: Guoxiang Shen, Lori D. Paniak; Nathan Fish Agenda: Ceph on `fat` OSD, current obstacles Discussion: Review of building OSDs...
Filesystem decision matrix: Ceph vs Gluster performance products features support for configuration usable capacity reliability (worst case) rebuild...
File Sharing Service Name Background For the File Sharing Service, we are planning on using NextCloud. We will need a name for the machine/service to use Principles...
FireFox Web Browser Mozilla Firefox Web Browser The Mozilla Firefox Web Browser is a free and open source web browser widely used at the University of Waterloo....
Tuning TIps for the Mozilla Firefox web browser Over the years, FireFox seems to have become increasingly greedy, and one can experience slowness and delays on less...
The current set of firewall rules will be posted here for perusal and perhaps critique. iptables.rules: You can use this in a Debian machine by modifying your...
Obsolete as of August 2013 Our firewall service has been shut down and replaced with router based ACLs. Firewall quick reference The alleged definitive statement...
First Aid First Aid Kits Various first aid kits can be found throughout spaces used by CSCF. These first aid kits are maintained by CSCF and are available for anyone...
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...
Flexible Setuid CGI Execution A common problem with CGIs is that they tend to run as the same user as the webserver itself, which is unadvisable at best and unacceptable...
FreeBSD FreeBSD in the Math Faculty of the University of Waterloo The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org/ UsingFreebsdInCS I also will stash some things...
MikeGore 03 Apr 2012 Created from notes from Ronaldo Garcia FreeNX Server Help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX Download: http://www.nomachine...
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...
Part 1: Frontend (Master Node) Installation Plug the monitor into the power strip and turn it on. Find the machine with two network connections; this is the master...
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Title GPUInstallScripts These scripts installs Cuda, Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch, Pycuda and related packages Location of master repository This Document...
Windows 10 CUDA cuDNN and Tensorflow GPU install Overview These are instruction for installing Python 3.78, CUDA, cuDNN and tensorflow on Windows 10 with and...
Giest parts we frequently order 11. GEIST 1U rack mount powerbar with AMP METER PN# BREC160 0020/16 supports 110v or 220v up to 16 amps max per bar. MUST order...
Giest parts we frequently order 1. GEIST DISTRIBUTORS: Anixter, Graybar, Wesco, and Nedco 1. GEIST product representative: GREG PORTER Email: gp #64;innotechsolutions...
CSCF Git Repository This page is to document CSCF use of the https://git.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/ group of the git.uwaterloo.ca server, which has an easy to use Gitlab web...
Gitlab/ST Web Hook for CSCF Projects Usage If your gitlab project has this turned on, all commits pushed to git.uwaterloo.ca will be automatically associated to the...
MikePatterson 16 Dec 2004 No user data, so just reboot and reinstall. Hrm, installer CD sees no hard disks. :( Some googling suggests that this is a Perc3/Di, but...
Grad Admissions Extract Codes Here we record special codes found in the extracts and any information we have concerning their meanings. Decision Codes Code...
Design Document for On line Graduate Student Admissions System (OGSAS) This document describes some details regarding the design and functionality of the On line Grad...
Academic Background This page allows the applicants to state relevant courses that they have taken in various computer science areas. For each course the user must...
Account The user will also be able to edit account information. Currently only the user`s e mail address and password may be changed. When the user changes the e mail...
Main.mdmewhor 23 Aug 2005 Applicant Account Creation On the first page of the Online Computer Science Graduate Application System there will be a link to a page where...
Login The Login page has a field for an OUAC number and for a password. When a user logs in, the password goes through MD5 hashing and the hash is compared to the...
Graduate Application Checklist and Final Submission This page will act as a guide for the users as they fill out their applications. Each step of the application...
Main.mdmewhor 23 Aug 2005 Data Model applicant Table This table holds data on each applicant. Fields 1. ouacId (primary key) The applicant`s ouac number....
Final Submission Once the users have completed the graduate studies application they have the ability to submit the application to the computer science graduate studies...
Graduate Application Main Page The main page lists all of the application data that user has filled in and has links to pages to edit them. By separating the `view...
Research Interests Form This page consists of checkboxes for each research area and a text area for general research interest information. The research areas are...
Resume Attachment This section allows users to attach a pdf resume to their applications. Alternatively there will be a checkbox to indicate that the user wishes...
Statement Of Purpose We are currently unaware of the true purpose of this form. The form will contain one large text area. When the submit button is pressed the...
Edited from document from jkeir, sometimes given to students on how to generate passwords. This version is same line count as jkeir`s, and has less (no) regexes....
At present I see at least the following pieces: 1. Grad Desktop Equipment Management (GradDesktopEquipment) 1. TA Assignment System a. TA Preference...
Notes from Meetings and Interviews June 20, 2005 Isaac, Michael, and Jason in attendance. Interview notes are on line. Pieces of the application have...
Grad Desktop Equipment Management At present information management for grad student desktop machines is a bit of a mess. In addition to inventory/DNS/ONA, there...
Interview with Debbie Mustin (Oct 26) How Office Assignment Works Many offices, especially lab areas, are `owned` by specific research groups. Typically students...
Interview with Jennifer Keir Paul Thompson (Oct 31) Paul Thompson is involved mainly in doing extra barcode scans to update equipment locations after a bunch of...
Interview with Research Support Group (Oct 30) Sequence of Events Debbie makes an ST, one per student, asking the research group to install equipment for that student...
Fixing Grad Desktop Problems The problem seems to fall into the following pieces: 1. Room assignment 1. Improvements to CSCF Processes Room Assignment System...
Grad Office Application Authorization This area of the website will eventually permit authorized users to view and edit the authorization records for the grad admissions...
OGSAS Detailed Design Notes Any additional notes on design of specific parts of the system can go here. GradOfficeApplicationPDFGeneration IsaacMorland...
OGSAS PDF Generation We use the iText library, written in Java, to generate, fill in, and manipulate PDF files. More information is at http://www.lowagie.com/iText...
Grad Office Application Screen Design Here we describe the content of each page in the system. When this is complete, any valid URL in the system should have a corresponding...
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Data Model: Application Checklist The following items need to be recorded on the application checklist: Immigration Card Transcripts (one per institution...
Grad Office Specs Functional specification (users` demand) Main article: OGSASPhaseOneDesign. Application records come from the UW Graduate Studies Office. In addition...
Graduate Office Web Application Overview This is a multi phase project to overhaul the operations of the CS grad office. This includes replacing the existing FileMaker...
CS GradPC standard workstation A GradPC is a standard CS PC workstation deployed to grad students using the CSCF standard Windows XP and Debian images. See Also...
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Grad Student Accounts Here we discuss the various accounts Grad students may get, attempting to demonstrate what happens automatically, and what manual supplementary...
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 Mac Deployment The information on this page pertains to obtaining and setting up a Mac for grad use. The current setup uses Mobile Device Management and...
Grad Student PC deployment This information pertains to desktop systems. For laptops, see GradStudentLaptopDeployment Core Group Phil will image the School...
Graduate TA Evaluation Project Phase 1 Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose is to replace the existing paper TA Evaluation process with a Web...
Grad Visit Day web application (v1) Background Originally designed based on ST#86639 The TWiki page for v2 of this application, also based on ST#86639, can be found...
Grad Visit Day web application (v3) Background This app is used to support Grad Visit Day, held in February or March in CS (and Math). The principal user is the Graduate...
Grad Workstation Schedule The arrival of graduate students each term, in varying numbers, combined with the release schedule for the desired operating systems, drive...
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...
Graphics software Software The Graphics Lab is currently running Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.10. The following list the software on these two environments....
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 Hardware notes Models HP DL 585R07 http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.BINARYPORTLET/public/kb/docDisplay/resource.process/?spf p.tpst...
High Performance Computing at UW Here we will document the resources available for High Performance Computing in the School of Computer Science, Math Faculty and the...
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...
HP Networking Parts we use or order frequently: 1. HP J9150A (SR) A 10 Gigabit transceiver in SFP form factor that supports the 10 Gigabit SR standard, providing...
Port security techniques To prevent port hijacking in student computer labs: we use the HP `port security` features we do not use `MAC lockdown`, which applies...
HR Submissions This will be a page related to HR Submissions, How and When your supervisor wants them submitted, what they pay periods are and the cutoff for submissions...
Hammond parts we frequenly order 14. HAMMOND 4 outlet 120volt POWER BARS with 6ft cord: PN# 1584H4A1RA with 15ft cord: PN# 1584H4B1RA DanHergott 01 Dec...
Hammond parts we frequenly order: 1. HAMMOND 4 outlet 120volt POWER BARS with switch and 6ft cord PN# 1584H4A1RA 2. HAMMOND 4 outlet 120volt POWER BARS with...
Handling Accounts Requests System Logs Ignore mails from: 0000 Admin(0000), accounts maintenance software, root, and super user This is info sent from...
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Fighting Spam HOWTO Documents SpamassassinSetup How to setup spamassassin in CS and how to use mailservices.uwaterloo.ca to for your spam processing...
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Hardware Census Statement of Work Problem: CSCF Inventory System information has (as of 2021 01 01) woefully nonexistent, incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent...
CSCF Hardware Lab DC2560G Documentation in process of being updated The CSCF HARDWARE LAB consists of four areas: storage, workstations, receiving, and network racks...
Hardware Repairs This will be a general guide to simple hardware repairs and replacements. Before Beginning Before taking apart a computer make sure you have at...
HealthDoc This is a research group headed up by Chrysanne DiMarco. healthdoc.cs and inkpotinc.ca Server ST`s https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/request...
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Help Desk Assistance This page will outline the various things I do to help the CSCF Help Desk. General Duties Equipment Loaning From time to time students, staff...
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...
High Performance Computing resources available to CS / Math / UW See also: MFCF page on High Performance Computing Centre for High Performance Computing...
Himrod cluster This is a cluster belonging to Ashraf Aboulnaga and Hans DeSterck, purchase in May 2014, running since October 2014 Overview role count cpu...
Himrod cluster Principal Investigators Ashraf Aboulnaga, Hans De Sterck, Ken Salem Cluster hardware overview system count cpu memory disk interconnect...
Replaced 2009 9 23 Overview of creating VLANs In principle, VLANs that never leave a switch don`t need to be allocated and managed globally, but if one intends...
Holiday Support Providing effective support during extended holiday periods is a challenge. The following describes the process once used to achieve this. It has since...
Horizion Furniture Contact: Patrick Flanagan 519 748 9874 ext 103 Parts we order: 1. Company contact established Monday March 11, 2013 by Dan Hergott 1. Company...
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...
MikeGore 11 Oct 2005 Host Naming Rules and RFC Documents For the CSCF specific guildlines see https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/decisions/DNS names RFC921 http://www...
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)...
HCI Lab Lab video equipment The lab has an overhead track mounting system that can use used to mount all manner of video gear. It is called `Unistrut(R)`. The Edcom...
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...
IST Announcements of Campus Wide Changes IST says: Campus wide changes will be communicated through the IST communications officer as well as through the Network Alert...
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...
This is the changelog I keep whilst creating and updating the standard images. See CreatingImage to go about making one. I used to keep it in a CVSed text file on...
Image Deployment Images Windows10BaseImage Windows 10 base image Creating, Installing Salt setup, etc for CSCF CscfGradImageNotes CSCF Grad Image Notes...
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...
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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...
MikeGore 13 Oct 2006 Thunderbird Email Image Filter SPAM Note how to remove messages with embedded images Steps Create a new filter called SPAM IMAGE...
Images by Desktop Motherboard / Laptop Model This page is intended to be an index to the list of images found here: CscfGradImageNotes Desktop machines Asus Sabertooth...
The imapsync application to copy IMAP mail between IMAP mail servers UNDER CONSTRUCTION Information about imapsync The application is available for unix systems...
Discussion of the Userids File for Experts The magic Userids file The `magic` Userids file, /software/accounts userids/data/Userids has its master copy maintained...
Experiments and Documentation relating to CFADRIANGADGETINCLUDE variable This page is useful for reference, but really documents why the mildly arcane CFADRIANGADGETINCLUDE...
Referers This topic is referred to by... Note: when I added multiple `off` parameter to the SEARCH, I think that`s the same as multiple `on`. AdrianPepper...
Some Relevant History of https AltNames To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates...
Generating a CSR To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates Generate a Certificate...
Generating a CSR specifying SANs To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates...
Generating a New Private Key To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates Generate...
Get Certificate from Web Page using Firefox To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates...
Stunnel Certificate File Format To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates...
Xhier Certificate Location To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates Certificate...
Receive Certificate To see how this inclusion page fits in with similar ones, perhaps see one of CertMaintenanceCollapsed CertificateUpdates Receive the...
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Preliminary Notes About Sponsors Data; Creating Userids Creating Truly New Users (Userids) Before you can use the sponsors data software to create new accounts for...
Explanation of /software/accounts master/data/sponsors/CLASSES CLASSES/ CLASSES/ files under ClASSES allocate resources for instructors and instructional...
CSCF/ CSCF/ files under CSCF facilitate the computing facility CSCF/admin administrative assistant staff, and many mailing lists CSCF/consulting this...
Sponsors Data Directory Organization Note that in the case of any discrepency between what is stated here. and what is the actual case on the UNIX computer...
REGISTRAR/ REGISTRAR/ files under REGISTRAR `automatically` sponsor resources, based on data received from the registrar`s office REGISTRAR/.DATA/ Don...
REGISTRAR YYYYMM/ REGISTRAR YYYYMM/ Files under REGISTRAR YYYYMM , e.g. REGISTRAR 201001 implement the predictable long term expiry of sponsored resources...
Explanation of /software/accounts master/data/sponsors/Research Research/ Research/ files under Research correspond to an individual researcher or research...
Explanation of /software/accounts master/data/sponsors/School School/ School/ files under School are for non teaching resource requirements School/Away...
Needed at start of standard table describing portion of sponsors data directory Directory/File NamePurpose Sample Column 1Sample Column 2 AdrianPepper 26 Oct...
Explanation of /software/accounts master/data/sponsors/ top There are no files to edit at the top level. There are directories which are recursively processed...
Traditional Sponsors Data Documentation Documentation The following traditional UNIX man page documentation describes the sponsors data base in a technical fashion...
Cautionary Notes About Editing the Sponsors Data Cautionary Notes About Editing the Sponsors Data In general you should avoid making easy to make mistakes....
Sponsors Data Editing RCS Checkin Use RCS ci command to unlock the file so others can edit it At this point you must use the RCS utility ci to save a record of...
Sponsors Data Editing RCS Use RCS co command to prepare file for editing All files in the sponsor data are now maintained using the RCS set of utilities. Before using...
Sponsors Data Editing Tutorial The central aspect of making any particular resource changes for any particular set of users defined by any criteria, is the editing...
Sponsors Data Id Numbers Notes about the ID number needed for sponsors data Even if a userid inherently has several ID numbers, there is only one which may be used...
Preliminary Sponsors Data Notes; Location Location of Accounts Sponsor files The accounts files for CS are on the UNIX computer cs xh admin.cs.private.uwaterloo...
Sponsors Data Run sponsor resources Before Making Changes Run sponsor resources before making changes While it is not strictly necessary, it seems a very wise practice...
General Preliminary Notes About Modifying Sponsors Data These notes relate to adding users to groups and servers using the Xhiered Accounts packages. This controls...
General Preliminary Notes About Modifying Sponsors Data Required authorization Users who need to update accounts need to be in group `sponsor` and group `accounts...
accounts client command Run the accounts client program accounts client {hostname, eg:cs general.cs.private} ~/hostname date This will cause the desired changes...
accounts master command Run the accounts master program to process the changes Note: everyone who runs the sponsor resources command should be aware that it is...
sponsor resources command Run the sponsor resources program to process the changes Note: everyone who runs the sponsor resources command should be aware that it...
userinfo command Run the userinfo program to verify your changes Run the userinfo command before and after you make your changes to verify that its output reflects...
Setting the password Setting the Password Once an account has been created or if someone forgets their password, the password for the account must be (re)set. For...
Email Replies to non Undergrads Email Replies to Expiry Inquiries From Users Who Are Not Undergraduate Students For Graduate CS students, these accounts expire on...
Sample Replies to Non undergraduate CS TEACHING users Sample Email Replies to Such Users It seems it might be helpful to have templates to address the common situation...
Information About the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) This document is meant to give determine how the AODA affects CSCF`s websites. The AODA...
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...
CREATING A WINDOWS WORKSTATION BASE IMAGE WINXP 30Aug2006 Some of this is out of date please verify and fix Notes: These instructions are for creating a base OS...
1 rsh to ace1.adm 1 run /fsys1/ace/prog/sdadmin, you will see some thing like `File System User Token Group Client Realm Site Profile Log Report` 1 use arrow...
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....
Installing Perl Modules as a non root user in one`s homedir The problem, as identified: there wasn`t an xhier package for a particular set of modules; and a user would...
Installing smalltalk.cs, 21 June 2004 Solaris 9 04/04 Solaris 8 was already installed told installer to go ahead and partitiona disk. Made a 2048MB swap slice...
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Institute for Computer Research Here we`ll collect specific notes relating to supporting ICR DC DC1301, DC1302, DC1304, DC1316 and DC1331 Presentation Rooms...
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...
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IntranetSSL Certificates See also OrganizationSSL Strictly speaking, either OrganizationSSL or IntranetSSL intermediate certificates will be used to create a chain...
Inventory Development Log Suggested IDE Setup See here for a suggested IDE and debug setup. Ideas for Improvement Include a saved history for searches. I.e...
Inventory Developer Test Plan Overview This document describes the plan for testing the inventory application. Originally these tests were done manually, however...
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 Monitoring Updates Spring 2019 Summary Devon has a term goal of updating Nagios to Ubuntu 18.04. This includes the Nagios API layer written by Dennis, which...
Inventory Database: Requirements Document This document incorporates notes from 62833 (inventory database on cscf in php) and 47633 (wishlist, closed) as well as discussions...
Inventory Database: Requirements Document Data Model Notes DRAFT This is structured to correspond to the InventoryRedesignRequirements document to which it relates...
Inventory Salt Integration Project Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose is to facilitate Salt updates pushed from inventory; involving Inventory...
Inventory Service Monitoring Project DRAFT Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose is to replace the Inventory `Services` section, which used...
Inventory Service Monitoring Meeting Notes 2021 02 16 Initial meeting with managers; full discussion of the request. Next meeting on 2021 03 10. 2021 02 17 Devs...
An Inventory record may have a single Support Group asociated with it. The Group is found in the `Support` tab. Valid values are as follows. For additions or changes...
Inventory System Administrator Documentation The inventory system tracks CSCF and Computer Science equipment in a database. It can be accessed at https://cs.uwaterloo...
Inventory System Triage Documentation This page is meant to consolidate all of the how to`s related to the Inventory System. Table of Contents Guides to the Completion...
Inventory User Documentation Logging In and Out The Inventory application is shared between and https://uwaterloo.ca/math faculty computing facility/ MFCF staff...
Inventory User Document Logging in The inventory system is available at https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/inventory/ for current CF staff. Your UWDir password...
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...
Irix (SGI`s version of Unix) IRIX is not commonly used in CS, but there`s at least a couple of machines in everyday use. Some documentation on somewhat obscure topics...
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Inventory System Triage Documentation (Draft) The inventory system tracks CSCF and Computer Science equipment in a database. It can be accessed at https://cs.uwaterloo...
Problem: I lack hardware for initial implementation of freebsd5. But: I know FreeBSD can implement virtual interfaces and assign them to jails, so... Answer...
John`s Work Guide and Responsibilities These notes are to describe the basic work that I do, the responsibilities that I have here at the University, guides to my...
The CS General Windows Domain Introduction There is a Windows Domain (part of the Active Directory infrastructure) membership in which provides some advantages:...
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...
jupyterhub.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca Admins: nfish, fhgunn https://jupyterhub.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca:8000 is a production service implementing a Jupyter Hub for undergraduate...
ST#51597 has all the gory details. For now, just one attachment: the config file for the 2.6.15 kernel. The kernel .deb package is too big to attach. MikePatterson...
Customizing KDE for multiple user use, such as on front end servers in the Student Environment. Also see KdePerformance and ST #49493. KDE Docs on configuration internals...
This document will discuss KDE Performance. Feel free to add particulars! Related ST: #49493. Also see KdeMultiUser. Performance Tips Starting document: this...
Main.ctucker 29 May 2007 Configuration of SCS Public Kiosks At boot time, an SCS public kiosk is configured to forgo the normal Windows logon process and immediately...
Kiosk Events Display Overview The Kiosk in the Great Hall of the Davis Centre displays upcoming events on its upper screen. These events are primarily drawn from...
Main.ctucker 28 Jul 2009 Kiosk Hardware Specifications This page will outline some of the relevant hardware details of SCS`s public kiosk computers. But right now...
Kiosk Proxy Service Motivation The kiosk displays web content, which may become available due to any number of reasons, including network and server failures. When...
CS Kiosk Graphical Home Page Visibull Digital Signage http://www.visibull.tv/ the product we are using for our digital signs Modifying a Google Drive...
SCS Kiosk Shutdown or Reboot (Restart) You can remotely shutdown or restart the cs kiosks using a couple of methods: Preferred method for restart login to najas...
LISA 2010 Attendee Notes The LISA Conference was held in San Diego, CA. Five staff from UW attended: Jeff Voskamp (IST), Robyn Landers (MFCF) and Fraser Gunn, Ronaldo...
LISA 2010 Fraser`s attendee notes `10: November 7 12, San Jose CA Training Sessions Attended Nagios: Advanced Topics Instructor: John Sellens, SYONEX Description...
Accounts are synced from plg2 by a script that`s in the crontab. It`s under /software/local plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca/maintenance/sync passwds. If a machine gets reinstalled...
Lab Mac System Administrator Documentation The Mac Labs are lab rooms throughout the MC building dedicated to giving students access to Mac computers. In any of these...
Lab Renovations CSCF Workflow The CS Space Committee is to be involved whenever the look, feel, or use of a space, or the potential for that, is involved. The `evergreen...
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...
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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...
S nail (S mailx) mailer WORK IN PROGRESS Not ready for others. From apt show s nail . Description: feature rich BSD mail(1) S nail is a mail processing system...
Legato Networker We use Legato to back up the majority of our systems. Here are some usage notes. Client Setup See: Legato Networker Client Setup Checking...
Lenovo Specific Notes BIOS settings Enable Secure boot the imaging process will need this Secure Boot setting will also enable other required defaults...
School of Computer Science shared Library the Distributed Library Project (DLP) CSCF`s DLP: http://dlp.uwaterloo.ca (no longer exists this project is no longer...
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 in CS CollectdConfiguration Configuring your system for resource monitoring MetaPackages bundle, deploy and update collections of deb packages across...
Linux Active Directory Here we will document how to setup a Linux machine to authenticate against an Active Directory and then how to solve various problems in using...
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...
Severn`s notepad on random good to know Linux things The nix equivalent of Windows` nbtstat is nmblookup, ie nmblookup A ipaddress ... nmblookup is part...
Legato Client Installation notes See Legato Install Notes for Windows Restoring Files https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups/services...
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...
Linux (Ubuntu) Printing There Are Actually Two SCS Print Servers In order to prevent confusion, the first thing to know is that CSCF maintains two different print...
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...
Please use the eduroam installer for all newer version of ubuntu Download it from: http://cat.eduroam.org Using UW Wireless (eduroam) under Ubuntu 10.10 To...
Sun is angling for small footprint 1/2/4u. Opterons and low end Sparcs. Look here. Looking at PXE installs for x86 over network. Sun will also be supporting HP...
`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...
This was almost a workshop style tutorial, with lots of participation from the attendees. It`s worth going to once; probably not worth attending twice. Robyn gave...
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...
Network Security Profiles When considering a site`s security profile, it`s important to determine not just what it does have, but also what it doesn`t have. You...
16 November 2004 Solaris 10 Security Peter Baer Galvin Solaris is evolving, but security is somewhat stable. Tutorial notes were based on build 63 (10 wasn`t...
LISA 2004 Combating Spam..., David Skoll Using MIMEDefang. A big con is that we can`t send back different reply codes to the bad guy. The multiplexor is to avoid...
I didn`t take very many notes at this session, as the tutorial notes are fairly straightforward. I will give page numbers that refer to the notes, and these notes...
those not in the know Livejournal is an extremely large weblogging site. They were purchased by SixApart not long (as of April 2005) ago. here `We`ll go into what...
LISA Conference 2004. Conference ran Sunday 14 November until Friday the 19th. General notes: Atlanta, GA venue was the downtown Marriot Marquis MikePatterson...
MikeGore 31 Oct 2012 LJC ALG Printer See also AlgorithmsAndComplexity Location DC2305 Printer Description ALG HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color Printer...
To use the NEC projector with an iMac: Connect the projector`s RGB IN 1 port with the Mac`s mini DVI port using the cable provided. The mini DVI port is on the back...
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...
The basic script is installed under /Library/Scripts and is run upon login. This currently contains the comment sections from the cleanbasic script #set xv; exec...
This logout script is found under /Library/Scripts and currently just contains comments #Update on June 27, 2006 added support for 10.3 clients and other improvements...
UW Web `Common Look and Feel` Implementation The CSCF implementation of the UW CLF makes us of a database backend to store side menu options. These options are hierarchical...
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...
M3A78 CM Based Grad PC Workstation Base BIOS Adjustments The workstation base became our new standard base in April 2009. Consists of: Touch PC base Asus...
MC Lab Checks This page will detail what is required to check the labs in MC Basics The MC Lab checks are a process used to ensure that the labs are operating properly...
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...
Math Faculty Computing Facility (MFCF) Purpose We have talked numerous times about having a collaborative document repository, and what type to use, and where to...
Printing Color Documents with a Mac on a Xerox Color Printer Note: The Driver for the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 was downloaded from the website and installed on the...
MacAdmins Conference 2016 MacAdmins is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages Macs and iOS devices. In 2015 we featured 60 sessions and...
Creating a Bootable USB for Macs Apple has created a support page http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5856 which directs you to https://support.apple.com/en ca/HT...
sudo niutil createprop . /users/joebob shell /bin/tcsh and substitute your short userid for joebob, of course. MikePatterson 24 Mar 2005 start Terminal...
Create a new userid under System Preferences/Accounts change icon picture if users requests Pay very close attention to the users short name as it must...
Carbon Copy cloner is a software package that is installed on the standard Macintosh platform or can be obtained fromm www.versiontracker.com You cannot clone...
Main.iturner 01 Apr 2009 Disable Safe Sleep Mac portables can become un bootable off their hard drive if the safe sleep image is corrupted. See for further information...
Ejecting media in Mac OS X: Removing `stuck` CDs/DVDs From time to time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS...
This list of Macintosh error codes is erroneus as soon as it`s put up. There are new codes introducted all the time, but most of these should at least remain constant...
PDF Browser Plugin for Mac Firefox System Administrator Documentation The Mac Firefox PDF Browser Plugin is a plugin for Firefox that allows users running Mac...
Mac For Surplus 1 Connect the Mac to VLAN 420 (Asimov`s network) 1 NetBoot the machine Sometimes when booting into the DeployStudio NetBoot set, the...
All faculty, staff, and students (grad and undergrad) use the same image. What is different are the hidden/inaccessible Applications that are made so via a post install...
Creating a Mac OS X Installation Image using DeployStudio 2011 11 08: in progress This applies to both multicast and unicast images. 1. creating a netboot set...
Mac Image Deployment We almost always use DeployStudio. Sometimes it`s handy to use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup to an external drive before installing a new OS....
The software differences in various MacOS X versions we deploy This is a work in progress. ToDo: we have a non teaching minimal image, that we use as a start for the...
Mac Imaging On the topic of Imaging Mac imaging is dead. Imaging is a process that has been deprecated and completely abandoned by Apple and the Mac community. Apple...
Procedure for Checking on Apple Computers There are 3 major procedures to check on the health of Apple computers (iMacs, Mac minis, MacBooks) power network...
As of May 2014 the undergrad Mac labs in MC are running OS X 10.8.4 with the following additional software: (note this is not a complete list nor is it current)....
Guides to the Completion of Scheduled Tasks Some tasks must be completed on a regular basis. List the scheduled tasks from least frequently recurring to most frequently...
There are a bunch of things that need to be done to make a Mac `lab worthy`. Hers is a list: It is currently in the processes of being revised. Disable Bluetooth...
Mac Lab Information ADMacInteg Document describing the integration of Macs and Open Directory with Active Directory MacLabWorthy Checklist for what to...
Mac OS X Running a Command at Login and Logout One way to run applications at login time is to launch them using a LoginHook. Similarly, a LogoutHook can be used...
The following tools are currently used by Google to manage over 64,000 Apple devices with less than a dozen people. They mentioned to avoid sourceforge (because it...
If a user is unable to launch Firefox or Thunderbird on the lab Macs, then under the user`s account: go to the Library folder (i.e. /u//Library/ ) rm...
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...
Mac Lab New Image Creation How to create a new Intel image NetRestore has reached EOL from creator Mike Bombich, information on this page should be considered outdated...
Mac Network Trace From Steve Hellyer: here`s how to capture a full packet network trace on Mac OS X.... Open up Terminal and type: sudo tcpdump K i en1 s 0 w...
This is an old document, dated 17 February 2005. Using pkgviews on a Mac OS system Mac OS 10.3.8, xcode 1.5 and Java 1.4.2 Developers installed. This requires a...
Mac Printing There Are Actually Two SCS Print Servers In order to prevent confusion, the first thing to know is that CSCF maintains two different print servers for...
They look like this: (imagine a picture here). They have blue ends with a twisted grey cable and are about 30cm long. It turns out that they`re Prolific devices...
The /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file on the Mac lab machines needs to be modified as follows: Note: There might not be an snmpd.conf file on the machine and so it is presented...
Problems 1 Excel (Microsoft) always opened in a 2 page format when it was launched would preferred a single page format Resolution 1 A tmeplate had to be stored...
MacOSX Software for Special Events Each special event that uses the Mac labs tends to use similar software over time. Here we will document where the software comes...
Setting up a BaseSystem 1 Initial Account Set up administration Account need IPaddress temporary address or permanent address and port to the internet Select...
This page briefly describes the sequence of events that happen when Mac OS X boots. Power is turned on. Open Firmware code is executed. Hardware information is collected...
Need to reboot your Mac to access a new startup disc or launch with safe mode enabled so you can troubleshoot problems with OS X? Then read this list of startup options...
Mac OS X Support Approach This information (so far) pertains only to a Mac workstation. It is a work in progress, driven by discussions of those CSCF staff who do...
Mac Test Suite Here we list a series of features that should run under our standard Macintosh installation, or any time we want to test various features of hardware...
The following KB from VMware provides some assistance in solving performance issues on macs. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language en US cmd...
Virtualization on Apple Hardware Possibilities to allow multiple OSes to run at the same time: VirtualBox currently free. VMWareFusion currently CS has...
The version of X11 that Apple recommends is XQUARTZ from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/. Previous versions of X11 are deprecated. XQUARTZ is currently running...
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/the worst bugs in os x yosemite and how to fix them 1652690924 http://meandmymac.net/2014/10/trouble with yosemite mail/ http...
CSCF Machine Rooms Labelling Standards Machine Room racks and organization MachineRoomRacks Fire Suppression Power and Air Conditioning Consoles and KVMs...
Machine Room Fire Suppression Here we gather the techniques we will use to protect machine rooms from fire, in a way that will minimize the occurrence of floods such...
Machine Room Fire Protection Campus Practice This page has moved to https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/reports/CTSC/MachineRoomFireProtectionCampusPractice to avoid a...
Machine Room Mapping Tool Change Log Back to the MachineRoomMapping page ThomasAng 17 Dec 2004 The page is up again and can be used. I`m currently working...
Machine Room Mapping Tool suggestion box Here we can collect notes on features that we would like to see fixed, changed or added. Please provide some notes on the...
Machine Room Mapping Tool Where to find it Official site: https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/room map/login.php Original site in ThomasAng`s home directory:...
RobynLanders 07 Aug 2008 MOVED TO MFCF MEDIAWIKI This page has been moved to the MFCF wiki as of September 2010. Don`t bother editing it here. MC3015 Machine Room...
Macintosh We are currently discussing and determining the overall Mac support approach. Installation and Configuration Mac OS X Versions Mac Image Creation...
Macintosh Diagnostics Home This is the default landing page used in our diagnostics NetBoot image. It will cover basic diagnostics tips as well as the use of all...
How to Print from Macs to the Main CS Printers 1 Check the list of CUPS printers by browsing to print.cs.uwaterloo.ca:631/printers Notes : Setting up colour...
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Mailman lists used in CS The canonical list of CS lists hosted by IST on http://lists.uwaterloo.ca is availble at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/mailman/lists/ (ADFS...
Managing an IST Mailman Mailing List Setting up the mailing list This needs to be done by someone on IST staff That is, submit an IST RT or equivalent...
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Adrian Pepper`s Quick Start Guide to Mailman List Moderation (rendered for `` list) Preface I was actually hoping to find a link to someone else`s description...
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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...
Enumerated Mailman Management Links (rendered for `` list) Reminder View this page as ?mmlist LISTNAME But replace the word LISTNAME with the actual name for...
Creating a Mailman Mailing List on IST`s Mailman server Contact IST Send an email to request@ist.uwaterloo.ca asking for your mailing list to be created on...
Main.ctucker 17 Nov 2005 Management of Neoware Eon 4000 and E100 Terminals Management of all Eon 4000 and E100 terminals is centrally located on the Eon Management...
Main.ctucker 17 Nov 2005 Creating and Modifying Main and Manditory Terminal Menus As mentioned in ManEons, menu files are designated as .rgy files. In reality these...
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...
Management This page is intended to list the topics of interest to the CSCF Management group. Employees New/Departing/Job Info/Absences Notes for new CSCF...
Management Principles and Insights Management Principles and Insights We`ve learned that we must spend as much time on management as is necessary, and only with...
See ST#57802 for details, but succinctly, to apply patches, use smpatch update . This will not automatically install all outstanding patches; some may require `special...
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...
demos on curu : really nice need to get passwordless smbmount working, f`rinstance on saci for Saurabh. Justin doesn`t really need access to curumin/curupira shares...
Meeting of 5 July 2004 Meeting started at approx. 1415h. Present: Ken Salem, Gladimir Baranoski, Justin Wan, Gail Chopiak, Mike Patterson, Lawrence Folland Gladimir...
MegaCLI Notes for the MegaRaid Command Line Interface See also: MegaRaid https://wiki.mikejung.biz/LSI References http://erikimh.com/megacli cheatsheet...
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...
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca School of Computer Science UWCS Metapackages A convenient way to bundle, deploy and update collections of deb packages across UW CS Ubuntu...
Beta Actually currently just notes. http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca School of Computer Science UWCS Metapackages \ Tue Jun 26, 2018 https://depot.cs.uwaterloo...
MikeGore 28 Oct 2005 MicroX using SSH tunnelling See also SecureShell for details on SSH Configuration of SSH Client and MicroX Xwin32 SSH Client is UofW...
Microsoft Imagine Software Suite General Information Microsoft Imagine is a Microsoft sponsored Azure web site for the educational community. The Math Faculty has...
Middle Atlantic parts we commonly use to order Middle Atlantic Vendors: Anixter London Patti Dennison 1 800 265 6042 Anixter London Kathy Lawrence 1 800...
Migrating a Thunderbird Address Book to Outlook Background This is based on work in ST#74959 exploring how to migrate Thunderbird address books to Outlook Overview...
MinUWet Overview This application was developed by Erick Engelke in Engineering to help promote safe computing. It tests Windows laptops to ensure that they meet...
(This is an old document, dating to 12 April 2005.) Mac Minis as school PCs After using a Mac Mini as a primary workstation for approximately a month, I believe that...
From time to time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS X methods pressing the keyboard eject key; using the...
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...
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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...
Miscallaneous How to`s This page is intended to list any topics dedicated to completing a process but are not sufficient to be considered triage documentation....
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...
Mobile Device Management Procedures New Devices Before we give new devices to the library, we should: remove any earbuds briefly check for adequate (over...
Installing and configuring the mod auth cas module to work with Apache 2 on Ubuntu This is to make use of the Central Authentication Service provided by IST for single...
Main.ctucker 17 Nov 2005 CSCF Modifications for Neoware Eon 4000 and E100 Terminals Before an new Eon 4000 or E100 is put into service it is setup with some CSCF...
Main.ctucker 04 Jul 2007 Modify Eon Desktop Colour There isn`t a simple direct way to alter the desktop colour of an Eon. There are several complicated steps which...
How to Modify the Google Drive Presentation Steps below outline how to log in to the Google Drive website and then get to the presentation. Google Chrome is reconmended...
Title Article text. Comments mouse SVN running on cs tech1 vm.cs.uwaterloo.ca for testing All original accounts are running passwords restored The svn...
Moves and Removals This will be a page discussing the basis of moves and removals, where equipment goes, and what needs to be done in regards to inventory and ONA...
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...
Moving to Connect This document will cover the migration of CS users from their existing mail servers to the IST Exchange server Background In 2010, it was decided...
I wanted to move some people on softbase from /fsys2/u2 (old home directory structure) to /fsys4/u4 (new one). See ST#42644. From: Adrian Pepper To: mpatters...
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...
MikeGore 05 Jan 2006 Howto Upgrade to mozilla 1.7.12 and make Xprint work Note Prior to upgrade you receive the following error trying to print Background...
MikePatterson 16 Dec 2004 Things we definitely need to do: 1 ensure all disks are in use 1 ensure user data integrity MikePatterson 20 Dec 2004 First, backup...
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CS MySQL Database Overview for System Administrators Public MySQL servers, available across campus Public Alias Current Hostname OS MySQL Apps Accounts...
CS MySQL Database Backup and Recovery Validation for System Administrators The CS MySQL database backup and recovery procedures should be validated periodically....
Failure of the Master Server If you have performed problem diagnosis and believe the Master Server has failed, these instructions will assist with emergency recovery...
Move Some (but not all) Databases from Old MySQL server to New HA Cluster This section assumes: mysql 5.5 the high availability architecture is one master...
Normal operation Nagios should accurately report that the cluster is operating normally. In case you would like additional verification, the following are manual diagnostics...
CS MySQL Database High Availability Operations Manual This document is used to administer the CS Highly Available clustered mysql database for general computing....
MySQL High Availability Preamble This document assumes: You have credentials to access mysql 10 246 .cs.uwaterloo.ca and InfoBlox. The high availability...
Problem Diagnosis There are various failure modes of the MySQL cluster; this section will help identify which recovery method to use. The scenarios below are listed...
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...
NFS (Network File System) protocol NFS stands for Network File System protocol. This page will serve as an entry point for all things NFS within CSCF. Mounting...
MikeGore 2014 03 28 Note cluster is no longer in service RT#1039321 The data for all of novo1,novo2 and novo10 including /u is now located on root@asimov...
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...
Nabeel Ahmed`s wireless testbed project (June 2007) The project consists of deploying many (40 or so) custom built wireless APs, driving them with lots of traffic...
Nagios API The Nagios API was created to integrate Nagios more closely with CSCF Inventory. It is documented here so it may be useful for other projects as well. Note...
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...
NetApp Filer Active/active configuration An active/active configuration is two storage systems (nodes) whose controllers are connected to each other either directly...
NetBoot NetBoot is deprecated and has been completely abandoned by Apple. Macs no longer have the ability to boot off of the network since the introduction of the...
NetBooting Lab and Tutor Macs Pressing Option N during startup will cause a Mac to NetBoot from the default boot image if one is available on the subnet (and in the...
Net ID Accounts The announcement: From ctsc bounces #64;lists.uwaterloo.ca Tue Aug 13 09:00:49 2013 From: Natasha Jennings njennings@uwaterloo.ca To: `isthd@lists...
NetTop notes Overview and Background In 2011, we began to use the NetTop as a `fatter` thin client. This was primarily driven by the desire to speed up browser usage...
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...
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This information is historical the CS departmental firewall no longer exists (trg, 2014 2 28) CSCF firewall information Basic operational information See: `Tutorial...
Network Hardware TESTING Network and Internet connectivity (DRH 23 Oct 2007) 1.) ping loopback 127.0.0.1 (ie is OS internal network working). 2.) ping...
This page is obsolete as of October 2010 and is retained only for historical interest. Network Load Balancing Starting in 2008, CSCF will be experimenting with network...
This Page is nearly obsolete and needs rewritting to remove references to the decommissioned `Maintain` application, decommissioning of the CS localized firewall and...
This information is historical VLAN management is now handled entirely by IST (trg, 2014 2 28) Tutorial 10: Setting up a new network (VLAN) Roadmap for this...
Routepoint configuration archive Typical definition for an HP routepoint: Configuration for vlan 1731 (cscloudinet); 2010 11 18 On `dc cs2` router vrrp vlan...
Tutorial 11: Creating an LACP link HP Procurve Setup Roadmap to this tutorial: This tutorial outlines the procedure for creating a lacp trunk on a production...
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 3: Configuration backup and restore HP switches To backup the configuration file: 1. You will need to backup to a tftp server that is accessible...
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Tutorial 5: How to Configure a HP 2650 Switch Roadmap to this tutorial : This document will show you how to configure a HP2650 switch. For this document I have...
Tutorial 8: Networking Documentation Roadmap for official CSCF documentation on network facilities, and design criteria, see: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf...
This information is historical the CS departmental firewall no longer exists (trg, 2014 2 28) Tutorial 9: Netscreen firewall procedures Roadmap for this tutorial...
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...
CSCF Networking Twiki This is to augment WWW networking information which is the authoritative site until merged with this site. There are also public facing Network...
Networking Lab System Administrator Documentation (DRAFT) This lab is meant for students taking CS 456, which provides an introduction to the fundamentals of network...
Hiring Co op or Part time students These notes are intended to document the process of hiring a co op student, getting them started, assigning duties, reporting procedures...
CSCF New Employee Guide These notes are intended to document the process of hiring a new full time staff person, getting them started, assigning duties, reporting...
Guide for new CSCF employees Q and A What should I do on my first day? The first three items were modified from the Faculty AdministrationNotes. Keys : See your...
Preparing for a new Director of CSCF Much of the preparation for a new Director of CSCF is changing the Director`s name/userid in various places. Web Pages Content...
New Faculty Onboarding Here we list the many tasks that have to happen when new faculty are hired This can be modelled on the NewCscfEmployeeGuide, with specific items...
New Lecturer Onboarding Needs updating from Faculty to Lecturer! Here we list the many tasks that have to happen when new faculty are hired This can be modelled...
New Part Time Employee Guide These are additional guidelines for part time employees; see also Notes for new CSCF employees. Starting The hiring manager needs to...
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...
New Sessional Onboarding Needs updating from Faculty to Sessional! Here we list the many tasks that have to happen when new faculty are hired This can be modelled...
New Staff Onboarding Here we list the many tasks that have to happen when new staff within CS are hired This can be modelled on the NewCscfEmployeeGuide, with specific...
New Visitor Onboarding Here we list the many tasks that have to happen when new visitors are expected/have arrived This can be modelled on the NewCscfEmployeeGuide...
NextCloud This is the replacement for OwnCloud. We use NextCloud as the base software for our Vault service. This provides a DropBox like service for our...
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...
Non Registrar Sponsored Accounts Files under the directory /software/accounts master/data/sponsors/ but outside of the directory /software/accounts master/data...
NNI primaries are Grant Weddell and Ric Holt. ReplacingDisksNNIT3Arrays replacing the disks in the T3 arrays in the fridge room in MC. This procedure would...
Nortel Switches Miscellaneous notes Procedure for clearing an unknown Nortel switch password (DRH) 1 Connect terminal to console port of switch 1 Power cycle...
MikeGore 2016 01 04 What is included in the Windows 7 Enterprise part of the image Update 7 Dec 2015 your Point Of Contact for more details Apply the...
MikeGore 2016 01 04 W7U1404 M4A89GTD 750G F15 Audio Lab v1 notes This image is the SAME as the W7U1404 M4A89GTD 640G F15 v3 with the addition of the audiolab...
MikeGore 10 May 2011 Win7vm Ubuntu Spring2011 6 May 2011 Image Notes Windows Notes: The image as the cscf adm and cscf op 2010 userids Note part of a domain...
Notes taken in Isaac`s briefing to Dawn, Lawrence, Daniel, Stephen, and Adrian on 1 December, 2008. 1) Contact info 2) RT Queue items that should be done before he...
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...
MikeGore 10 May 2011 Win7 x32 Spring Image Notes Notes: The image as the cscf adm and cscf op 2012 userids Need to join the domain Check drivers Acrobat...
Grad Workstation Image File Notes x2amd002 v2 Image Name: x2amd002 v2 Created by: pbeldows Creation Date: September 18th, 2013 Created on workstation...
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...
x2gen017v2.TIB NOTES Location: \\asimov.cscf.uwaterloo.ca\IMAGES\core (being created) Created June 2012 Using Acronis Disk Backup and Recovery 10, NOT...
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PLG NSERC Project 2007 Background Tasks SetupPlgV40z notes for setting up the Sun V40z as the new PLG server SetupPlgT1000Number1 SetupPlgT1000Number...
This is an old working copy that is no longer maintained. The official version of this document is located here: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/decisions/ogsas...
OGSAS Graduate Admissions Assistant`s Guide Beginning late 2007, the School of Computer Science started deploying the Online Graduate Student Admissions System (OGSAS...
OS X 10.9 `Mavericks` Installation Media Creation This process is identical for Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite (replacing all instances of `Mavericks` with `Yosemite`) OS...
Odyssey Adapter Programs Introduction There are the following programs: cgigate : CGI that connects a remotely authenticated (or anonymous) user to their own...
CS Events The CS Events application is used to advertise events of interest to CS. IsaacMorland 09 Feb 2007 StephenNickerson 8 Dec 2008 Adding a User to webCalendar...
Odyssey Application: CS Teaching Preferences This application collects teaching preferences from CS faculty members and allows administrative users to view the collected...
Odyssey Application: Website Maintenance This application allows authorized individuals to maintain the menus and other centralized information that is part of the...
Odyssey Applications This is being replaced by a new system based on Python and PostgreSQL. See OdysseyApplications3 for details. This is a system for creating web...
Odyssey 3 Applications Note: This section is what I am working on right now. Not everything described here is yet operational. This is a UW specific system for creating...
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...
Oddysey 3 UW CLF Implementation This page describes the UW CLF implementation in use on www.cs and www.student.cs . Static Pages Static web pages are implemented...
Odyssey 3 Applications Database All data are stored in the Postgres database at appdb.cs:5433 . Each application has a schema. Naming Conventions Identifiers use...
Odyssey 3 Application Structure This page explains all the pieces required in order to implement an application that uses the Odyssey framework. Project Directory...
Odyssey 3 Apache Virtual Host Configuration This page describes how each virtual host is configured in our Apache 2 installation. HTTP only Virtual Hosts Each virtual...
Odyssey Connect Directory The Odyssey connect directory contains the FIFOs used to communicate between the gateway adapters (OdysseyAdapter) and the JVMs (OdysseyJavaCode...
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 EMS Meeting September 19, 2016 Notes from meeting with Caroline. Overall she liked the system and had many positive things to say about it, but she found...
Meeting with ISG ISCs in their weekly Monday meeting Daniel, Dimitri, and Frank met with Karen Anderson, Barbara Daly, Caroline Kierstead, Olga Zorin, and Travis Bartlett...
Proctor Package investigation From parent page: ST#107173: Caroline noted that sometimes the Proctor Package isn`t automatically generated. Isaac says that this results...
Odyssey Exam Management System UI Updates In Fall 2016, we`ve planned to review the user interface and make improvements. This is a loosely defined project, with...
Odyssey Java Code Here we document the organization and setup of the Java code used by the odyssey 2 package. Code formatting related standards are in OdysseyJavaCodingStandards...
Odyssey Java Coding Standards For consistency, all Java code in the Odyssey system should follow the following standards. Version Control Subversion is used for version...
Odyssey Local App: Assignment Submission Introduction This is a web interface to the command line submit command. Implementation is in Java class uw.unix.SubmitHandler...
Odyssey Local App: Disk Quota This application allows users of the environment in which it is installed to see their diskquota. It simply runs the command line diskquota...
Odyssey Local App: Local File Access Introduction This is a web interface to the user`s files. Implementation is in Java classes uw.unix.FileBrowser . The main...
Odyssey Local App: XAS Account This application allows users of the environment in which it is installed to see their LP quota balances. It simply runs the command...
Odyssey Local App: Mail Forwarding This application allows users of the environment in which it is installed to see and update their mail forwarding. Upon requesting...
Odyssey Local App: XAS Account This application allows users of the environment in which it is installed to see their XAS account balance. It simply runs the command...
Odyssey Log Directory The Odyssey log directory is /software/odyssey 2/logs . Within this directory should be one directory per year. Within the year directories...
Odyssey Wire Protocols: JVM Request This page describes the format of a JVM request. These arrive at the JVM on standard input, which is redirected from the .fifo...
Odyssey Wire Protocols This page documents the `wire` protocols used by the Odyssey system, i.e. the exact formats of the byte sequences sent through various communications...
The (partial) text of a uw.mfcf.gripe posting I just made. I post it here because I talk about Thunderbird and putty, but the concept applies well to any OS capable...
Microsoft Office install and Activation University Office Portal for Office install and Downloads Updated 15Feb2022 Mike Gore Login to portal.office.com...
Data Required to Produce CS Reports and Other Output Deliverables in OFIS dev for December 2009 Research Book / Webpage in OFIS Manually entered: webpage/webpage...
Weekly Meeting with Dawn, 31 March, 2009 I suggested it would be useful to get opinions from current users of the system Dawn suggests Shaz, admin for Software...
OFIS Notes from 1 December, 2010 Today Marlon: can import GSO update to dev, up to gov`t count date. Will bug OOR about their data. then imports will be done....
OFIS Notes from 2 December, 2009 Past Tasks Tamir: ct`d bibtex Daniel: `what do I need to fill in` info sent OfisCSOutputRequirements Daniel: Questions...
OFIS Notes from 2 February, 2011 Today Daniel: volunteering to determine/recommend workflow using mercurial(hg) source control, and clean up the redmine/mercurial...
OFIS Notes from 2 March, 2011 Today Steph Sempson`s 2nd day on job. A bit info overloaded. Vu: may be back next week; new project was quicker than expected. Daniel...
OFIS Notes from 27 January, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel: not much. worked on ssh data transferring, still in dev. Today: beth: CFI grant reporting requirement...
OFIS Notes from 3 June, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: fixing user info: replace `Department of` with blank; in display and in CV. Will move to Production. Today...
OFIS Notes from 03 May, 2011 No meeting last week. Today Oops; last term`s co op didn`t email out a writeup of the mysql workbench. Marlon: weren`t we going to base...
Initial Meeting for discussing CSCF/CS/Math Faculty contribution to the project Daniel Allen, Dawn Keenan, and Peter van Beek attended the regular weekly OFIS...
OFIS Notes from 3 November, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work: data cleanup. Today Vu: research support: `losing fields` means missing data...
OFIS Notes from 5 Aug, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book proceeds. Today: Daniel: will email OFIS list when CS profs get sent the email to update...
OFIS Notes from 05 Jun 2009 Daniel reported on hiring process, discussion. Differences: Engr. hired a 1st, didn`t want 2nd or 3rd term. sounded like they...
OFIS Notes from 6 April, 2011 Today Anthony is sick today, so no demo. Vu: everything is working in dev2, including delegation. working on new headers. Daniel: hg...
Weekly Meeting: discussion on LaTeX and RTF: marlon and ray determined that freebsd `rtf2latex` did a good job on a sample report template file. bibtex imports...
Past Tasks Daniel: bring OCGS reports for Math. Tamir: ct`d bibtex import work Marlon, Vu away. Beth: queries to George Dixon re: cleaning up Office of Research...
OFIS Notes from 8 April 2009 Dawn: yesterday`s CS school council meeting: report on the faculty performance reviews and how it is constructed. Daniel: student...
OFIS Notes from 9 December, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel: move expertise keywords live (done); WatITis talk done; Research Book: printing drafts for people...
OFIS Notes from 9 February, 2011 Today Vu: big project coming down the pipe for him: grad student data administration project. He doesn`t have full spec, hard due...
Weekly Meeting: What`s been happening? Beth: do we want to alternate between dev only and dev/management meetings? `Rick`s webpages`: Marlon is moving link...
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...
OFIS Notes from 10 June, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: looking at personal profile etc. Today: Vu: RTF / html input cleanup to fix RTF export. Jack: error...
OFIS Notes from 10 March, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel worked on data cleanup Marlon: see below. Today: small meeting. Daniel brought up whether common tables...
OFIS Notes from 11 Mar 2009 Met from 11am 12:30. Following direction from Peter van Beek last week, we discussed his CS Research Directory profile and how...
OFIS Notes from 11 November, 2010 Olga: grant data errors in her data; Marlon will track down. Daniel: Bill Cowan: errors in grant data. Daniel will have him...
OFIS Notes from 12 Aug, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work. Daniel: email OFIS list when CS profs get sent the email to update profiles Today...
OFIS Notes from 12 Jun 2009 Daniel reported back on Professional Registrations in CS/Math. (see below). We might just rename the sections to `Professional Deignation...
OFIS Notes from 13 January, 2011 Today Marlon: wants meeting with Colin Daniel to discuss philosophy of revision control (re: rollbacks and keeping some changes...
OFIS Notes from 14 April, 2010 Past tasks Daniel: `expertise single`: code change to display as carriage return, not comma. (then ready for live). Daniel...
OFIS Notes from 14 Oct, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work: investigating webpage, prof comments. data cleanup. Today Marlon and Ray away. Next...
OFIS Notes from 15 Apr 2009 discussed UI issues for new version, if the user is cross listed in more than one faculty (and has admin powers in both; ex., Olga...
OFIS Notes from 15 July, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: ready for profs at end of June. Yay. Today: Beth: affiliation info simplification? Vu will make a demo...
OFIS Notes from 15 May 2009 From April 29 meeting: Daniel presented about CS course critiques. data is passed to Frank Tompa CS Director of Undergraduate...
OFIS Notes from 16 December, 2010 Today Daniel: cleaned up Research Keywords. Will move backup of old version to subdir. Won`t get to asking profs about display on...
OFIS Notes from 16 February, 2011 Today New staff to work on OFIS, at end of month: Steph Sempson, currently Science Computing support. Vu: his new project is automating...
OFIS Notes from 16 Sep 2009 Short meeting. Mostly about BibTeX Beth says Engineering Deans are enthusiastic about bibtex import. Ray/Tamir/Daniel determined...
OFIS Notes from 16 Sep, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work: Talking with MWG and PaF Today Marlon will move data updates from dev to prod (GSO...
OFIS Notes from 17 February, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel: worked on ssh data transferring, still in dev. Will generate `real` profiles, but I want preview to work...
OFIS Notes from 17 Jul 2009 Beth talked with Martha about Eng. Faculty webpages: want common look and feel. Can Ofis do this? Marlon: working on cleaning...
OFIS Notes from 17 June, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: will fix CS Research Book code for order of display Daniel: question about contribution `0000` dates...
OFIS Notes from 17 March, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel: conv with Marlon about NULLs and bibtex id Daniel: conv with Ray about ecserv19 / ofis.uwaterloo lack...
Today Olga: how can we generate department webpages ECC wants access to their faculty members` last 3 (or n) publications. broke down 3 options: 1) ofis hosts data...
OFIS Notes from 18 Mar 2009 Met from 11am 12:15. Question from Peter D. on request by Arts, to use OFIS as well. But Peter suggests we don`t currently...
OFIS Notes from 19 April, 2011 Today Michael will send out a writeup of the mysql workbench demo, via email. Daniel: Discussion of dev2 checkout (https://ofisdev...
OFIS Notes from 19 Aug, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work. Today Jack: demo of edit menus; wide css; decided to switch to wide css Marlon...
OFIS Notes from 19 Jun 2009 Ray will add shell access. uses nexus p/w Latex: Daniel reported on TeX4ht. latex to HTML/xml/open office and (via html) can be...
OFIS Notes from 20 April, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: met with 2 profs, demo tomorrow with n more (3 NSERC website will work. Would trust OFIS text dump,...
OFIS Notes from 20 Oct, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work: data cleanup. Today Marlon: Eng. Research Reports engineering tool update: added...
OFIS Notes from 22 July, 2010 Past CS tasks Today: Daniel: will email OFIS list when CS profs get sent the email to update profiles Beth: interviewing...
OFIS Notes from 22 May 2009 General Notes to be determined: whether to add profs who will never generate reports, such as retired faculty data checking...
OFIS Notes from 23 March, 2011 Today Met at 10:30. Done at 11:30. Vu: changes to support multiple implementations: instead of config.php and /common/lib dir, use...
OFIS Notes from 23 Sep 2009 Beth making list(s) of specific info profs do need to do CEAB and other reports? Marlon: course critique data integrity issues, missing...
OFIS Notes from 23 Sep, 2010 Today Daniel: no show stopper bugs with CS stuff. Just a pile of small bugs to figure out. one request to have a staff member...
OFIS Notes from 17 Jul 2009 Beth is taking on Computing Director job while Peter Douglas is in Dubai (Nov ) but also stood in for Peter today. Marlon working...
OFIS Notes from 17 March, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel: conv with Ray about ecserv19 / ofis.uwaterloo access. works! Marlon added `BS` to common field. Today...
Daniel`s Revision Control Demo user customizations to ecdev:~/.hgrc (replacing my name and email with user`s): ui username Daniel Allen trusted groups ofis...
OFIS Notes from 25 Mar 2009 Met from 11am 12:55pm. Two visitors from Arts: prof, Bruce (Muirhead), associate dean of grad studies; and Carol (x), from Arts Dean`s...
OFIS Notes from 25 November, 2010 Today Marlon: importing watiam and HR data automatically now. But what about errors in data? solving seems higher priority than...
OFIS Notes from 26 Aug, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work. Research Book; sent Vu notes on odd display (fixed); moved bibtex under contribution...
OFIS Notes from 26 January, 2011 Today Next Monday Marlon will start reimporting the Faculty member table; will tell Daniel when he`s done (for CS re edits)...
OFIS Notes from 27 January, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel: not much. worked on ssh data transferring, still in dev. Today: discussion of errors reported by profs...
OFIS Notes from 28 April, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Demo for profs. Today: Office of Research: wants to use OFIS data as core for reporting requirements...
Past Tasks Daniel: OCGS comparisons sample (JAtlee). find out what is deadline for CS OCGS? was last done March 2006 has the office of research been asked...
OFIS Notes from 28 Oct, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work: data cleanup. Today Maron: Wayne`s 6 missing grad students: one`s a postdoc and...
OFIS Notes from 29 Apr 2009 Engineering Computing is planning for a spring term co op, if they can find tasks for him. Possibly Jack, who is experienced with...
OFIS Notes from 30 March, 2011 Today Vu: everything is working under the new (relocatable) code except delegation; working on that. Daniel: shall we set up additional...
OFIS Notes from 30 Sep 2009 Past Tasks: Tamir: ct`d bibtex import work Marlon: OCGS: gray area: some business rules a bit confusing... marlon adding CIHR and...
OFIS Notes from 31 Jul 2009 Before meeting: discussion on ofis list about upcoming OFIS work for the fall: 1. Contributions interface contribution specific...
Meeting with Marlon, Jack, Daniel, Ray, Alan Bell, and Colin Bell. Clarification on Library role: doing this solely to be useful to campus data availability:...
Ofis/RefBase meeting Marlon, Vu, Ray, Jack, Daniel met with Colin Bell, IQC; regrets from Allan Bell, Library. Colin explained further about his/library`s ideas...
Equipment Inventory Database See InventoryUserDocs The following information is obsoleted by the revised Inventory web interface and is preserved for historical purposes...
Equipment Inventory Database This is based on OldEquipmentInventory, with stale information removed. Some information is available from http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca...
Stuff to see here: bcm5700 modules are intended for use on WatForm Dell servers (eg. PowerEdge) with 2.4 kernels The desktop kernel stuff is a kernel I built...
OpenFirmware Setting of openfrimware password UidNotes Explanation of UID number assignment in the maclabs WorkGroup Manager account creation ClassPreferences...
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...
Editing the Upcoming Events notice The Ongoing Series notices that appear on the home page on the side, directly below the `Upcoming Events` notices are affected by...
Online Course Support Expectations for online course support, understood as of 2013/03/08, are: Video Only the instructor will be involved; students will only be...
I went to OUCC 2005 in Kingston. I tried to balance what sessions I wanted to go with the sessions I felt I should have gone to. The complete list of sessions is...
OpenBSD in CSCF CSCF`s ability to support OpenBSD is very limited. In mid 2007, CSCF starting looking at OpenBSD for low cost network load balancing using CARP/pfsync...
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...
The open firmware password has to be set when ever a new machine is set up in the Lab. This password prohibits the use of boot CD or other device from starting up...
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...
There are several major sources of Open Source (ish, we won`t worry about strict definitions here) applications. Some are: http://www.macports.org/ MacPorts...
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...
OrganizationSSL Certificates See also IntranetSSL Strictly speaking, either OrganizationSSL or IntranetSSL intermediate certificates will be used to create a chain...
Rob Schmidt in IST sent me the following link: Technical Information. Under tools, it has a looking glass, which allows you to see if a peer is on the Orion Network...
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...
Developers Tools These are required to get gcc and the like. They are available for download from the Apple Developer Connection, http://www.apple.com/developer...
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Other Time Off Work The university has procedures and guidelines for staff time away from work for reasons other than scheduled vacation. This is a collection of...
MikeGore 03 Oct 2011 Convert Outlook Express to Thunderbird See also Outlook to Thunderbird OutlookToThunderbird Convert DBX files to MBOX Note: this is useful...
How to convert from Outlook to Thunderbird This is if you have weird conversion problems like a funny attachment or HTML mails turning plaintext when importing...
OwnCloud Background ownCloud is a PHP based service that allows you to sync your files across different computers. Smartphone support is in progress. ownCloud is...
OwnCloud Server Administration OwnCloud Set up: OwnCloud Usage: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/OwnCloudUsage link OwnCloud Server Info Information on our...
OwnCloud Setup For background information on OwnCloud http://owncloud.org/sync clients/ You will need to install a sync client in order to sync data over multiple...
OwnCloud Usage If you haven`t installed ownCloud yet, please see: OwnCloudSetup Information on ownCloud usage has been taken from the ownCloud User Manual, which can...
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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...
Package Docs: Odyssey 2 This page is the starting point for documentation of the odyssey 2 package, maintained on capo . Configuration Options Odyssey configuration...
Package Docs: Odyssey 2 Data The data directory of the odyssey 2 package contains the following items: admin : See `Miscellaneous Shared Data` below....
I have a script on cscf.cs in my home directory/bin called sync plg {sarge,woody} that will do the appropriate magic. You need to be able to open up remote xterms...
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Panduit Parts we use frequently (Default colour IW International White): 1 PANDUIT PART# UICFPRTR4WH (4 Outlet FIXED Tamper Resistant Face plate Uses Excelite...
Paper User QuickStart Token for reservation site access A password/token is required for the reservation system (below). These can be (re )generated at any time...
Password Web Application There are two copies of the password changing and app, running in the student and core regions. The student.cs password application...
CscfHelp 2014 04 09 The old version of instructions are removed the app can be used by everyone to change their own password, rather than via helpdesk. If the client...
MikeGore 11 May 2005 CSCF Standards Networks/Cables All cables are to be labeled. When you are moving/changing a cable, update all labels in the cable channel...
PC Hardware SCS Standard PCs Standard PC specifications Dell PCs IST has made arrangements for UW staff or researchers to purchase standardized machines at...
People App Requirements Document The below corresponds to ST#78166: CS People Database Project It follows on from initial work done as part of ST#55351: Improve...
The extensible nature of this project makes a number of options possible. All of the below meet particular school needs, and fit into the overall model, but are clearly...
PeopleSoft Data Import Data provided by the University`s student information system arrives as email to a specific staff member`s email account (IsaacMorland). A...
PeopleSoft Extract Handling This page describes in detail the handling of extracts from the PeopleSoft SA system. Email Handling Each extract email consists of a...
PhpMyAdmin PhpMyAdmin is available on capo via XHier. The current up to date version is the package phpMyAdmin 2.7.0 pl2 . The web link to our installation of...
PhpMyAdmin Documentation for Administrators You may wish to refer to the Project Page. The existing package is set up to allow customization of files in a simple but...
PhpMyAdmin User Documentation PhpMyAdmin is a Web based interface to MySQL. It has been installed on CSCF`s web servers to simplify access to CSCF`s MySQL servers...
Acquiring and creating accounts on `pilatus` Background pilatus is an SGI Altix 3800. It was originally acquired under the CFI New Opportunities program in...
MikePatterson 21 Jan 2005: We want to upgrade to ALE3. So, pwr d and then pwr u (at console) and quickly jam the boot CD in. Then wait and wait and wait anyway. Eventually...
First, make sure you know how to get at the console. (Hint: cts2.cscf, line 20.) You may or may not need the root password. Scott Wilson from SGI sent me the following...
Pilatus Notes Pilatus is an SGI Altix 3700 acquired as part of the CFI New Opportunities grants of 2002 and 2003. More information can be found here: http://www.math...
Initial Planning Monday 19 December 2005 First thing to do: look at the upgrade to ALE 3 and see how that went. It looks like I took things like backups for...
Flash the PROMs. Reading the migration guide, they say to see what configs changed. pilatus:~ # rpm V a grep `\b c` S.5....T c /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm cfg...
debian/ubuntu can`t redistribute PINE becasue of license/source code issues. washington.edu offers a debian package for PINE for i386, which I have put in the local...
Pinning Debian and Ubuntu Packages Say you`ve got an Ubuntu Stable system but you need some packages from Ubuntu`s old Stable. `Pinning` will allow you to force the...
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Downtime Time and Duration Certain maintenance requires that a computing environment be disabled; taken `down`. The principles to be followed when choosing an appropriate...
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...
PLG`s LDAP Adding users MUST be root in the core for the following steps! Step 1: Find out the UID and GID of newuserid in the CS core: make sure you...
Point of Contact In CSCF, a Point of Contact is the `go to` person for your computing needs. These are usually divided between teaching, administration and research...
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Problems Fixes for x2amd001 v2 image This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) SSH Client license file missing...
`Page Currently in Construction solutions may vary` M4A89GDT Pro3 If you have issues Refer to the solutions below BluesScreen if you are getting the blue screen...
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Problems and Fixes for x2gen017v2 image This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) PB noticed that there is a...
Problems Fixes for x2intel001 v1 image This page is under construction (Information presented here is not necessarily correct) Fix Ubuntu Mozilla PPAs Also...
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MikeGore 2022 Feb 15 poisson.cs main documentation links See https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CFPrivate/Poisson poisson.cs configurations notes VMWARE...