Notes on Computing Facilities at ING

Description of Current Computing Facilities at ING

• Visitors - which sparcs you can use and where they are
• ING Solaris Cluster Site-Wide Login Files
• Solaris Cluster Migration
• Notes for users migrated from SunOS to Solaris
• How to Migrate a User to Solaris Cluster (for CFG Administrators)
• Solaris Cluster Startup files
  • customising account via .postcshrc and .postlogin
• PGPLOT
• Network Congestion - Reporting Faults
  Until the new network is in place on the Roque site there may be occassions when the network becomes so congested that some applications stop working at an adequate response. When reporting these faults during the night please use the CFG tools to identify the source of the problem while it is happening!. These notes on "How to Use Net X-Ray PC tool" will allow you to do this
• Mail
• setting up CDE mail tool
• setting up unix to forward mail to another destination. account
• setting up VMS MAIL to forward mail to your unix account
• appending aditional information to a mail in pine
• Dial-Up (Modem) Services for ING This gives a list of telephone numbers of modems at the Roque Site and also in Santa Cruz de La Palma.
• Software available on lpss20 at the SLB
• X-terminals
  • Using X windows and xterms at the SLB
  • Customising Your NCD X-terminal
• HTML information (writing HTML, forms etc)
• Printing on HP Laserjet
• new A3 and Duplex Printer Queue hp-3b
• HP printer message "PC LOAD LETTER"
• HP printer message "13 PAPER JAM"
• HP LaserJet - Maintenance Of Printer
• HP LaserJet - Solving Printer Problems
• software source information
• Hardware information
• Table of Sparcstation Configurations
• Inventory of Computing Hardware Oct 1996
• VAX
• How to Migrate files from VAX to UNIX
• setting up VMS MAIL to forward mail to your unix account
• Vax Multi-Host/Shadow Scsi Configuration Procedure
• Scratch disk policy
• PC Software available at the ING
• UNIXhelp for Users
• Information about some PC viruses
• Advice on writing scripts - use sh not csh. Here is a local copy of "Csh Programming considered Harmful" (snapshot Sept 1998) and a link to original off-site document. As for tcsh the author says

  "While some vendors have fixed some of the csh's bugs (the tcsh also does much better here), most of its problems can never be solved because they're a result of braindead design decisions. Do yourself a favor, and if you have to write a shell script, do it in the Bourne shell.

• Tape Copying
• making up labels for D-tapes use script dtapelabels in ~cfg/tapes.
• Verifying D-tapes on Sparcs
• On-line information on D-tape copying status
• On-line Tape Copy Request Form

Plan of Future Computing Facilities at ING

See this section for entries on

• Items ordered and expected to be on-line in the next few months.
• Wish list of things to purchase in 1996/7
  and instructions for getting them onto the CFG's shopping list.

returns from customer survey on Requests to CFG for 1997