Infrastructure

• Staff - done?
• Server(s) - almost entirely done
• Mailing list - not done == faclin01: Course Server, Fall 2004 ==
  • Faclin01 is accessible(7/22/04) on campus at faclin01.olin.edu(ssh, other) and everywhere at focs.olin.edu(http).

    NB: For forward compatibility, the course web site should always be accessed as focs.olin.edu (a stable name) rather than faclin01 (the machine that happens to host it). Faclin01 hosts:

    • A CVS repository

    • Website

    • The FoCS wiki

  == pegasus: Temporary Course Server, Summer 2004 ==
  • Pegasus is accessible(6/30/04) everywhere at pegasus.research.olin.edu. Pegasus(nee Whangdoodle) is running:
    • MacOS 10.3.4

    • MoinMoin wiki software on Python 2.3 (slightly unusual, see below)

      • 7/22/04 Wiki-bility is still there, but the wiki has moved to focs.olin.edu.
    • A CVS repository(slightly unusual, see below)(6/28 trumped by faclin01)
    Slightly Unusual:

    • For some reason, the Administrator user isn't wanting to be added to the cvs-user group, meaning that Administrator cannot use the repository. This may or may not be due to the fact that its shortname is "admin", which is also a groupname. I cannot delete Administrator, since it was the first account created on the machine... there is also some sketchiness where $ groups admin says admin is in staff, but NetInfo doesn't seem to think so; my user is "Allowed to administer computer" but is not in staff, via the shell nor NetInfo. I don't know how to fix this, but I don't think it will be a problem if we just leave it.

    • I neglected to note that /usr/bin/python was a symbolic link deep into /System/Library/Frameworks/... and so MoinMoin also got installed deep in /System/Library/Frameworks/... This isn't a big issue, since I made /usr/share/moin link to the appropriate place, and Apache doesn't care. It's only a pain if you ever have to edit this theme's python file, since that is located in a different bit of the tree than the rest of moin. This will all be documented somewhere permanent, as soon as we figure out where that should be.

    • Also: UserPreferences used to be horribly, terribly broken; I've mostly fixed it except that the row of itty-bitty icons seems to disappear when you log in. Still solving that.