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: