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System Installation This section documents operating systems and system administration tasks related to system setup. How to install or re-install the operating system on a UWM LSC workstation: Fedora Core 4 install on an Intel or AMD machine. Fedora Core 3 install on an Intel or AMD machine. Red Hat 9 install on an Intel or AMD machine. Red Hat 7.3 install on an Intel or AMD machine. Solaris install on a SPARC machine. How our servers were configured: dataserver gravity hades new uwmlsc old uwmlsc storage1 watchtower New users/groups should be added on uwmlsc and propagated from there. A table lists users/groups. Userids and groupids should be chosen according to the conventions in this document. Instructions on adding UWM LSC users and machines. Instructions on adding UWM LSC users on the group's Windows XP machine, oisin.phys.uwm.edu. Useful links for the systems that we own: Solaris 8 answer book available locally on ldas. Red Hat home page X Free 86 server home page Linux kernel archives Sun Microsystems home page Raidzone systems home page

Hardware This section documents the exising general computing (i.e everything except beowulf) hardware that the group currently uses. Cluster Hard Drive Install KVM instructions List of General Computing Machines Tape Robot and Backup Configuration Information Backup Tape Offsite Storage Schedule Setting up a serial console (as done with storage2). Switching machines from 57 subnet to 61. Software This section documents software subsequently added to the system onto of the base install. CVS administration and usage Gnats bug tracking system AutoUpdate RPM updater Bogofilter spam filter Host Certificate Recovery Movable Type installation notes List of all cron jobs on the cluster E-notebook addition notes. YUM - Yellowdog Updater Modified Mailman Administration User Table Information [ut.cgi] Spam Password Encryption Security How to perform a quick security check on your GC box List of Machines/dates checked Network This section documents the groups current network configuration. : Problems This section documents known problems with the groups computing configuration. Jolien Page created on: Thurs Jun 9 2005 by Clint M Chilcott Page updated on: 02006-06-23 by Gregory Skelton