AFS Myths

Myth #1: With regard to the AFS Cells, Unity is ITD, Eos is Engineering, BP is Bobby Pham RealDeal(tm) #1: Today, May/2002 – the cell names don’t mean much with regard to the organizations that manage them. Generally today: BP = software installs, Unix...

Remote Access

Currently the Engineering NT Labs include an icon for XWin32 that hits a feel servers using XDMCP to “get a full session back.” This was originally done because certain disciplines in the College still had a strong need for one or two Solaris only...

Mailing Lists Replies

The default settings for the engr-sysadm@lists mailing list are set to have the “reply-to” address set to the list itself. For anyone “hitting” the reply button on their email client to a message sent to the list, it should auto-populate the...

Mail Forwarding Policy

Mail forwarding Unity/Eos account holders can have their e-mail forwarded to a different e-mail account. The request must come from the Unity e-mail account for which mail is to be forwarded, and must provide the full Internet address to which the e-mail is to be...

Locker Info

Background == As part of our standard locker creation process, all AFS lockers have a couple of groups assigned to them in the form: owner-lockername <- administrative group, owned by the point of contact for the locker owner-lockername:staff <- general user...