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System Configuration (workstations, grape)

• System

Alarm handling/Shutting down the rack

• Alarm Handling

System Configuration (windows and Linux laptop)

• System windows
• System Linux

System Configuration (CCMS Blackhole)

• How To's

Grape queueing system

• Restarting the queue
• Administration
• Debugging Queue Errors

Add new user (LDAP)

• Managing Fedora-DS

Add new user (grape)

Create account in /etc/passwd

useradd -u NEWUID -g md NAME

Update NIS (for cluster authentication)

cd /var/yp/
make

How to build a Live CD

Get Gentoo Linux distribution, e.g. http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ (e.g. miniCD)
Adding custom packages to Sysrescd

In summary: 1. expand the sysrcd.dat in /mnt/custom 2. mount -o bind /proc /mnt/custom/proc 3. extract a recent gentoo portage in /mnt/custom/files/usr/portage 4. chroot /mnt/custom 5. install new packages using the gentoo commands (emerge yourpkg) 6. umount everything properly 7. clean /usr/portage 8. recreate sysrcd.dat with mksquashfs 9. recreate the iso image