Workstation Support Notes

APT-RPM Notes

• Allowing AS3 and WS3 machines access to APT repository apt-for-ws3-and-as3.txt
• Creating APT repositories and RPMs apt-repositories.txt
• Downloading updates for RedHat Enterprise redhat-enterprise-updates.txt

Aide System Configuration

• AIDE v0.10 and the aidecheck script aide-010-readme.txt
• AIDE v0.11 and the aidecheck script aide-011-readme.txt
• /usr/sbin/aidecheck & /etc/cron.daily/aidecheck aide-checking.txt
• Remote Check Operation (Jul 5 '00) veritas_aide_configuration.txt

Central Authentication Service (CAS)

• CASifying MediaWiki on RHEL 5 CASifying_MediaWiki_on_RHEL_5.txt
• CAS inexplicably pointing to an https:// URL upon completing authentication? cas.txt
• Protected URL does not contain an index.html file (or equivalent). cas2.txt

Installation notes

• CIRCUS INSTALLATION PROCEDURE circus-installation-procedure.txt
• Computer Science PhD Machines Installation Procedure cs-phd-inst.txt
• Computer Science PhD Machines Post-Installation Procedure cs-phd-postinst.txt
• ZOO INSTALLATION PROCEDURE zoo-installation-procedure.txt

LDAP

• OpenLDAP Account Utilities ldap_tools.txt
• Warning about using secure LDAP (ldaps://) for authentication ldaps_warning.txt

Machine Room Operations

• ADSM Backup/Restore Notes adsm-backups.txt
• Backup/Restore operations at CS backups.txt

Mail Tidbits

• CS Forwarding Options forward.txt
• Hosts running SMTP services open-smtp.txt

Matlab

• Fix for 64 bit Segmentation Fault matlab-64bit-fix.txt

Network Notes

• Requesting a network address ip-request.txt

Pantheon

• EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Installation iscsi.txt
• Pantheon Account Tool pantheon_account_tools.txt
• Private Unencrypted Telnet via Terminal Server (ptelnet) ptelnet.txt

Red Hat

• Query for Service Tag from OS RHSerialNumberCommand.txt
• system instability after applying RHEL3 Taroon Update 6 redhat-el3u6.txt
• Manually modifying existing partitions redhat-partition-changes.txt
• OS license subscriptions rhn.txt

Samba

• Migrating from server security to ADS security samba_ads.txt
• Authentication issues with samba and winxp samba_auth.txt

Suse Notes

• Query for Service Tag from OS SuSESerialNumberCommand.txt
• Issues encountered upgrading cups packages on suse 9.x via apt-get suse-cups.txt
• ssh public-key logins not working on Kerberized suse 10.2 machines suse-krb5.txt
• Printing from Firefox/Thunderbird suse-ps-printing.txt
• Remastering the Suse boot CD suse-remastering.txt
• Suse 9.3 XDM login problem with non-bash users suse-tcsh-xdm.txt

Ubuntu

• Kerberizing Ubuntu ubuntu-krb5.txt

_Archived Notes

• Here old-notes.txt

rdiff-backup

• caveats when compiling on 64-bit Linux rdiff-backup.txt

streaming.yale.edu

• streaming Quicktime videos on streaming.yale.edu (media2.wss.yale.edu) streaming-quicktime.txt

   

   

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Yale University Workstation Support Services (WSS)
Comments: wss-tech@yale.edu
URL: http://wss.yale.edu/
Certifying Authority: Chuck Powell, Manager, Workstation Support
Last Modified: May 7, 2000
Copyright © Yale University, 2000