New Employee
Indoctrination
Chris Biddick Paul Grenz
Jan 30, 2007
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Kitchen
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Refrigerator, Microwave, and Sink
Please keep clean
WE HAVE A MOUSE PROBLEM! Do not
leave food out anywhere in the building
University stuff
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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
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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
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Exterior doors for MGIO (base camp and all
observatories)
Most LBT interior doors
Gate key
Email
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Provided by Steward
Thunderbird email client
Web mail
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Email lists maintained by Alex
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• http://server_name/webmail
• https://mail.lbto.arizona.edu/mailman/listinfo
Operating system
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We are using CentOS 4
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Linux kernel 2.6.xxx
Alex can provide details if interested
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• Repackaging of Red Hat Linux
Computer access
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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
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You do not have root access
Computer name: lbtdunnn
Computer access 2
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SSH
• Login
• ssh computer_name
• File copy
• scp [options] file_name1 file_name2
• Public-key
• ssh-agent
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Window system
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gnome, KDE
gnome is used on the TO station on the
mountain
Shell
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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
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Editors
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IDEs
• vi (vim)
• emacs
• gedit – basic wysiwyg
• anjuta
• KDevelop
• None
C++ compiler
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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
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Define environmental variable MAKEFILES as
/somepath/somefile where somefile contains two lines:
CXX = g++4
CC = gcc4
Establish the following aliases
alias gcc gcc4
alias cc gcc4
alias g++ g++4
alias c++ g++4
CVS
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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
CVS 2
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Needed environmental variables
• CVSROOT
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:ext:[username@]cvs.lbto.arizona.edu:/export
s/homes/cvs/
CVS_RSH
ssh
Web access
• cvs.lbto.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
• Authentication (shared, not LDAP)
CVS 3
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Linux access
• Use ssh-agent public key to avoid typing
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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
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We use tags to identify TCS software
components
• Component_name_Version-maj-min-rel-bld
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Contained in “Version” file
Applied with command “make tag”
Additional tools
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make
sudo
epkg (encap)
QT Designer
doxygen
Wiki
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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
Web calendar
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Keeps various schedules
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http://webcalendar.lbto.arizona.edu
LDAP authentication
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• Software group meetings
• LBT bedrooms
• Conference rooms
• Telescope activities
• LBT vehicles
IssueTrak
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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
Drawing and document archive
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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
TCS on desktop
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You need a second ethernet interface
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Run TCS network processes and
subsystems for local testing
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• Configuration file (LBT.conf) points to it
• Edit LBT.conf locally
Tucson test cluster
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lbtdu16 (TO station)
lbtdu101, lbtdu102 (servers)
Builds are installed here before going to
mountain for testing
MS Windows support
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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