Fw: operator account setup changed!

From: Flemming Videbaek (videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 11:31:38 EDT

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    The  message below is of general interest to anyone who takes shifts, maybe
    not in the details
    but as an orientation on what to expect for the operator account.
    
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Konstantin Olchanski <olchansk@ux1.phy.bnl.gov>
    To: <brahms-dev-l@bnl.gov>
    Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 9:38 PM
    Subject: operator account setup changed!
    
    
    >
    >
    > Folks, the operator account setup was changed. The purpose of
    > the changes is to make the environment as self sufficient as
    > possible.
    >
    > Here is the description of the operator account setup:
    >
    > 1) only the "tcsh" shell is supported. All bash related setup files
    >    (.bashrc and the ilk) have been removed.
    >
    > 2) .login is an empty file to avoid "login shell vs non-login shell"
    >    unix nonsense.
    >
    > 3) all setup is done in .cshrc
    >
    > 4) brahms_login.csh is no longer used and has been deleted. Since the
    >    operator account cannot use the standard login file, it is best
    >    to keep everything in one place, so all BRAHMS-specific setups
    >    were moved to .cshrc.
    >
    > 5) the BRAHMS setup in .cshrc is as follows:
    >
    >    - ROOTSYS is set to a local copy of ROOT: $HOME/root. This
    >      is a copy of /opt/brahms/root/pro/linux, with some cleanup
    >      (see my other email).
    >    - BRATSYS and BRATHOME (are these two redundant?)
    >      are set to $HOME/brat, a local checkout copy of BRAT.
    >    - BRAHMS_ARCH is set to: linux
    >    - CVSROOT is set to it's normal place in CVS.
    >
    > 6) PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are setup to the "right" places
    >    in ROOTSYS and BRATSYS, plus the additional entries
    >    for ntuple and VertexNtuple.
    >
    > These settings make the operator account environment and BRAT/ROOT
    > applications built in this environment (i.e. BRAHVO) immune to
    > at least AFS outages. Some more work still needs to be done to make
    > it immune from pii3 outages.
    >
    >
    > --
    > Konstantin Olchanski
    > Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York
    > olchansk@bnl.gov
    >
    



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