(featuring links to Marguerite & Burt's emails to phsoft and phobos)

Upgrading from RedHat 7.2 to RedHat 8 on Phobos machines

• Schedule for upgrade
• What ROOT should I use to recompile my Phat?
• Making sure you don't have LSF environment variables in your startup scripts
• How does this affect distributed disk?
• What files are staged to new distributed disk?
  • (with the addition of filesets AuAu130GeV_1_2_9_Jay, 20GeV_pr01_ONLV_2_1_8_data, 20GeV_pr01_mc, PhastPhysics_pr01_ONLV_20_data, PhastPhysics_pr01_mc, PhoExpGen_Gen1_Adam, PhoMCHits_Adam, and PhoSlowTracksDST_Adam)
• How to use the distributed disk before and after Sept. 15th upgrade

Kerberos 5 password upgrade

• RCF information about K5
• Marguerite's howto K5 upgrade
  • if it's after Sept. 8th, then you have to access the NewKerberos5Password.txt file via rftpexp
• Information about your .cshrc (.login, .tcshrc) to make sure it's correct with respect to K5
• rcf (mail server) doesn't change, it is separate

Other

• My talk given at the Sept. 4 bi-weekly meeting (includes Production stuff): ppt pdf
• RCF AFS cel name change info

Really useful link

• RCF News and announcements
• Back to "Getting Started on RCF computers" at Phobos Computing website

Marguerite Belt Tonjes, Sept. 11, 2003