Imager Technical Information

Update Policy

modified: Apr 18 2007

• UPDATE POLICY IS STILL BEING DECIDED UPON.
• If you would like your machine to be frozen during a conference freeze period, add your machine to the Conference Freeze Dates wiki page and send an email to imager-tech@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca .
• For Imager computers (subnet 54), if you don't want your machine to be upgraded, then turn off cfengine.
• Frozen and non-frozen periods for updating machines will be determined at the Imager Tech Staff Meetings in accordance with the calendar of conferences. There will be a 48 hour notification on updates during the non-frozen period. No updates (including security updates) will occur during the frozen period. The updates will be tested on 'tom' first, and 'tom' will generate an email to imager-tech when it is upgraded.
• Look at the file /var/log/yum.log to see a list of recent updates to Linux machines.

Imager Filespace

modified: Mar 28 2007

• The imager filespace is located at /ubc/cs/research/imager .

What changed with NetApps

modified: Jun 20 2007

• NetApps documention link: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/computing/accounts/backups.shtml
• Recommendations for setting permissions: For most files = -rw------- (default, allows only you to read and write them.) C/C++ programs and other programs = -rwx------ (also default, allows only you to read, execute and write them.) See the man page on umask for information on how default permissions are set. For more information go to: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/computing/unix/permissions.shtml

How to mount things on Macs? How do you find your home directory?

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