New Employee Indoctrination

Chris Biddick Paul Grenz

Jan 30, 2007

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Kitchen

Refrigerator, Microwave, and Sink Please keep clean WE HAVE A MOUSE PROBLEM! Do not

leave food out anywhere in the building

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University stuff

Stephen has a wiki page: http://wiki.lbto.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/NewHireInformation• Orientation

• CatCard

• Parking permit

• Keys

• NetID

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Building security

Keep the doors locked to keep riffraff out You should have keys for your office and

Steward exterior doors You should have three keys for the mountain

• Exterior doors for MGIO (base camp and all observatories)

• Most LBT interior doors

• Gate key

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Email

Provided by Steward Thunderbird email client Web mail

• http://server_name/webmail

Email lists maintained by Alex• https://mail.lbto.arizona.edu/mailman/listinfo

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Operating system

We are using CentOS 4• Repackaging of Red Hat Linux

Linux kernel 2.6.xxx Alex can provide details if interested

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Computer access

We use LDAP to provide access to your account on any of the Linux desktops• You can log in as you on any desktop

• Alex maintains LDAP

You do not have root access Computer name: lbtdunnn

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Computer access 2

SSH• Login

• ssh computer_name

• File copy• scp [options] file_name1 file_name2

• Public-key• ssh-agent

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Window system

gnome, KDE gnome is used on the TO station on the

mountain

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Shell

Shell• ash, bash, bsh, csh, ksh, sh, tcsh, zsh

• tcsh is used on the TO station on the mountain

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Editors and IDEs

Editors• vi (vim)

• emacs

• gedit – basic wysiwyg

IDEs• anjuta

• KDevelop

• None

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C++ compiler The OS has been compiled with gcc 3.4 The TCS is compiled with gcc 4.1 On some machines gcc 4 may not be the default. To

insure you always use it• Define environmental variable MAKEFILES as

/somepath/somefile where somefile contains two lines:CXX = g++4CC = gcc4

• Establish the following aliasesalias gcc gcc4alias cc gcc4alias g++ g++4alias c++ g++4

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CVS

All the TCS software is in a CVS repository

Requires authentication (not LDAP) Developer must maintain his/her stuff Root must have read access to work

space

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CVS 2

Needed environmental variables• CVSROOT :ext:

[username@]cvs.lbto.arizona.edu:/exports/homes/cvs/

• CVS_RSHssh

Web access• cvs.lbto.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/

• Authentication (shared, not LDAP)

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CVS 3

Linux access• Use ssh-agent public key to avoid typing

password all the time (Michele has instructions)

• Optional: make a .cvsrc file which contains the following two lines to establish defaults• update -d -P• checkout -P

• Command line• tkcvs - GUI

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CVS 4

We use tags to identify TCS software components• Component_name_Version-maj-min-rel-bld

Contained in “Version” file Applied with command “make tag”

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Additional tools

make sudo epkg (encap) QT Designer doxygen

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Wiki

Collaborative web system LDAP authentication for editing http://wiki.lbto.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/

view/Main/WebHome http://

wiki.lbto.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/LbtoLinks

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Web calendar

Keeps various schedules• Software group meetings

• LBT bedrooms

• Conference rooms

• Telescope activities

• LBT vehicles http://webcalendar.lbto.arizona.edu LDAP authentication

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IssueTrak

LBTO bug tracking system Operated by vendor Requires authentication (not LDAP) http://www.issuetrak.com/lbt http://wiki.lbto.arizona.edu/twiki/bin/

view/Main/IssueTrakDocumentation

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Drawing and document archive The official LBTO documentation repository. Based on CAN (Category/Assembly Number)

index with sections for major telescope subsystems.

Maintained by John Hill Many formats allowed http://abell.as.arizona.edu/~hill/xlbt/ 001s001 describes the archive 481s039 describes TCS document structure

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TCS on desktop

You need a second ethernet interface• Configuration file (LBT.conf) points to it

• Edit LBT.conf locally

Run TCS network processes and subsystems for local testing

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Tucson test cluster

lbtdu16 (TO station) lbtdu101, lbtdu102 (servers) Builds are installed here before going to

mountain for testing

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MS Windows support wintermserv.lbto.arizona.edu is a Windows 2003

server supporting Remote Terminal Services Use Remote Desktop on Windows XP Use rdesktop on Linux Office, Acrobat, Firefox, Ghostscript, Thunderbird,

RsLogix 5000, Tornado 2.2, PIC compiler, VisualDSP++, Borland C++Builder, Enterprise Architect, SSH, TortoiseCVS, XEmacs, XMLSPY, …

You can have your Linux home mounted as a windows network drive

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