Customized software
Please list anything that isn't from normal Debian repositories here.
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Current software
postfix
Postfix requires a patch to work nicely with AFS. (Do you have the patch, Liz?)
Responsible sysadmin: Liz
Custom stuff on netboot machines
Kernel/bootup sequence
The kernel requires several patches to work nicely with aufs. These patches are mostly pretty small, but change from kernel-to-kernel. Googling and looking through the aufs cvs will help a lot. When compiling a new kernel, make sure to read *all* of the aufs docs to find the required patches.
- lhash patch
- put_filp patch
- sec_perm patch
Additionally, when I was compiling aufs, it did not believe that it had NFS branch support. There are some lines in aufs.h that determine if it defines AuNoNfsBrach- comment out the part where it defines it and it will work.
The current (2.6.24ugcs1) kernel also has a one-line patch to fix the vmsplice bug.
e1000
The core2's need Intel's e1000 network drivers. You can find them on Intel's site. After you get clio booted, you can use clio to compile and install these modules so the core2's will boot.
matlab
Matlab R2007b is installed to /opt/matlabR2007b on the netboot images. In /usr/local/bin, matlab, mbuild, mcc, and mex are symlinked to a wrapper script (matlab_wrapper) which prints a message letting users know the license requirements (being a current member of the Caltech community) before running the appropriate program.
Responsible sysadmin: Joshua
Job posting script
The job posting script is in /usr/local/bin/ugcs-jobs. It finds all the files in the drop dir (/afs/ugcs/drop/jobs) newer than ~/.lastlogin, and shows them. It is run through /etc/profile, /etc/zsh/zlogin, or /etc/csh/login.d/ (for the appropriate shell). User documentation is at Website:Job_Posting
Responsible sysadmin: Joshua
mail_forward
Sets up mail forwarding for users. It is a python script in /usr/local/bin/mail_forward
Responsible sysadmin: Liz/Joshua
Software no longer installed
libpam-script
This package provides a pam module for running scripts on login/logoff. It was going to be used to do the job posting script, and possibly other things (provide helpful messages when a user is blocked by pam_access?).
