Common HEP UNIX Environment


After it had been decided to design a common user environment for UNIX platforms among HEP laboratories, a joint project between DESY and CERN had been started. The project consists in 2 phases:
  1. provide a common user environment at shell level,
  2. provide a common user environment at graphical level.

Phase 1 is in production at DESY and at CERN as well as at PISA. It had been developped around the scripts designed at DESY Zeuthen and improved and extended with a 2 months project at CERN with a contribution from DESY Hamburg. It consists of a set of files which customise the environment for the 6 main shells (sh, csh, ksh, bash, tcsh, zsh) for the main platforms (AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, SunOs, Solaris2, OSF/1, ULTRIX, etc.) and it is divided into several "sociological" levels: HEP, site, machine, cluster, group of users and user with some levels which are optional.

Phase 2 is in deployment and is part of this 3.0.* version. It includes many new features in the X11 area. Consult the Version file for a full description. This part is now deployed in production on the PLUS services at CERN and at PISA.

If your system runs make_asis or ASISUpdate you should find the files under /usr/local/lib/hepix. Templates are provided under /usr/local/lib/hepix/templates and some external documents refered as number 162, 163, 170, 171, 172, 184, 185 are available from the UCO.

The main entry point for the HEPiX scripts project is located at:

	http://wwwcn.cern.ch/hepix/wg/scripts/www/welcome.html
Contact: Arnaud.Taddei@cern.ch
Arnaud Taddei, 12-Jan-1996