Astronomy Computing Facility Page

• There have been a few slight changes to the way the web server is configured. These changes have been approved by the computer committee and are intended to increase web security in the future as well as to make recovery from future crashes a bit easier. We apologize for any inconvenience.

• If you read the instructions below and you don't have an html web directory yet don't panic. It will be added soon. This is being done by hand and it takes a while, Your patience and understanding is appreciated!

• Your web directory will reside on the disk /home/httpd/html which is being exported from sbast3 to many of the machines in the Astronomy group. The disk will be mounted on your machine as /www . This means that your web directory will be /www/your_user_name . We realize that this is a bit different than our previous configuration but it is advantageous to do this for a number of reasons that we won't describe here.

• Your new URL will be "http://www.ess.sunysb.edu/you_user_name". Note that there is no "~" in this as there previously was. You'll need to modify your html files by getting rid of these tildes for both links to your own files and links to files of other group members.

• We only have approximately 750 Mbytes of public html space for the moment, so please try not to load huge files in your html directory. We have more disk space on the way and we'll let you know when it's ready.

• Your old html files are still available under your public_html directory. You can simply copy them over to your new web directory and make the changes mentioned above and they should work. Make sure to set the file permissions so that they are world readable and permissions on any subdirectories that you make have so that they are executable.

• sbast3 is acting as a mail server & forwarder. Most of you are currently able to receive mail as your_user_name@sbast3.ess.sunysb.edu or as your_user_name@mail.astro.sunysb.edu or your_user_name@mail.ess.sunysb.edu. This mail is forwarded to another machine such as vulcan. If I didn't know where to forward your email I sent it to vulcan so check there. If you want it forwarded elsewhere please email sysman@mail.astro.sunysb.edu.

• If you don't have an email account on sbast3 yet (assuming you had one before the crash) email me at sysman@mail.astro.sunysb.edu and I'll get it added ASAP.

• The hp printer in the computer room is having problems with the paper feed from the lower tray. Placing paper in the lower tray will cause the printer to jam. Please avoid doing so until this problem is resolved.

• IDL has been installed on vulcan. The licensing issue have been corrected. However, there may be some problems related to the license mamanger. Please report any IDL problems to sysman@mail.astro.sunysb.edu.

• Please report problems to the system manager via email at sysman@mail.astro.sunysb.edu.