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Introduction

This guide explains to system administrators how they can install and customise the HEPiX scripts.

The HEPiX shells and X11 login scripts are a package of shell scripts, perl programs, manual pages and documentation which provides the Common HEP Environment to your users when they are using a shell interface or an X11 interface.

All the concepts are detailed in [6]. You will also find a reference guide in [7] and you can give a short user guide [8] to your users. These 3 documents should come in the same package as this one otherwise you can access them through: http://wwwcn.cern.ch/hepix/wg/scripts/www/Welcome.html

In this paper we distinguish between 3 classes of system administrators according to what they manage:

Of course, you might correspond only to one class but in the other hand you can be the same person who is fulfilling the 3 roles.

Although there are 3 classes, we could add 2 more classes:

A paper will come later with another set of programs in order to give site system administrators the ability to change some defaults at 'site level' (see [6]) in an easy way.

Anyway, we will see in the following how to:




Arnaud Taddei
Tue Dec 12 08:15:58 MET 1995