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Helpdesk Tutorial Tomorrow Night - HTML
by Eoin Campbell 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Hey Everybody, Just a quick reminder about the helpdesk tutorial this week. We'll be doing an introduction to HTML. You can learn how to design a webpage and get it up and going on your redbrick webspace. This weeks tutorial will be very basic covering formatting text and putting pics and other such things on your site. We'll cover some more technical stuff next week in another HTML tutorial. The tutorial begins at 7pm in LG25 of the Computer Applcations Building, tomorrow evening (Tuesday 4th of November). I hope to see loads of newbies there. Any questions you can fire a hey/mail to any of the helpdesk. (*hopes he hasn't forgotten anything*) ~Cambo -- Eoin Campbell ---------------------------- cambo(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Helpdesk/Education Officer Redbrick Committee 2002/2003

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Web Issues
by skyhawk＠redbrick.dcu.ie 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Hello everyone, Since the prodigy reinstalls there are a few small points you should all be aware of. 1. As was mentioned on the boards, anyone with scripts connecting to a mysql database should now use "mysql.internal" instead of "localhost" as the database hostname. 2. The ip of Prodigy, our webserver, has changed from 136.206.15.10 to 136.206.15.2. Any of you with vhosts should contact your domain provider and have the DNS altered to the new ip address. 3. The big move is completed now and you will all notice that users webpages are located at /webtree/firstletterOfUsername/username. This should be accessible from the public_html symlinks in your account or directly if you wish. Also the document roots of vhosts are no longer in /local/web/vhosts but now located in /webtree/vhosts. 4. The location of tomcat on prodigy has moved from /local/web/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1 to /local/tomcat. I have placed a symlink called jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1 in /local/web pointing to the new location to avoid any of your aliases or scripts with hardcoded paths from breaking. 5. We have been contacted several times over the last few months regarding illegal mp3 files being available off our webserver. Please avoid having copyrighted mp3 files accessible on your website. This is being more actively monitored of late by the likes of IRMA and the people who represent them. 6. I think that's everything :) If anyone has any queries regarding any changes or anything is broken, feel free to contact me at either webmaster(a)redbrick.dcu.ie, skyhawk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or via hey. regards Declan -- Redbrick - Dublin City University Networking Society Declan McMullen - Webmaster ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Redbrick - Dublin City University Networking Society Declan McMullen - Webmaster

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Mail Conversion Information
by Dizer 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Today your Redbrick email was converted from mailspool format to Maildir format. What do you have to do? ======================= - If you had mailer configuration files (.muttrc or .pinerc): These files have been moved to /home/oldmail/USERNAME. Sample guide files named .muttrc.suggested and .pinerc.suggested have been left in their place. Using these files, create new working .muttrc or .pinerc configuration files. (See: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/the_big_move/mailers/) - If you used .procmailrc mail filtering: Your .procmailrc file has been moved to /home/oldmail/USERNAME. A guide file can be found at .procmailrc.suggested. Make sure there are no mistakes in your .procmailrc, mistakes can result in losing new mail. (See: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/the_big_move/procmail/) - If you forward all your Redbrick mail to another account (e.g. DCU account) or use Redbrick system defaults for all your mail: No action is required. What does this change mean? =========================== - You can now find your mail at ~/Maildir instead of ~/.mailspool. - Your mail is now reliable over NFS. (Sharing amoung several machines) - Your mail is now compatible with IMAP mail clients (Evolution, Outlook Express, Pine). - Your mail is now compatible with the upcoming Redbrick Webmail system. If you have any questions about your configuration don't hesitate to contact helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . New Server ========== Finally, we ask everyone to test out our new server which should become the primary Redbrick login machine in the next few weeks. To log in simply: Change the hostname field in PuTTy to 'deathray.redbrick.dcu.ie'. or Type 'ssh deathray' from your regular Redbrick session. If you find any issues with the new server, mail a description of the problem to deathray-issues(a)lists.redbrick.dcu.ie . Regards, Redbrick Admin Team. -- Dermot Duffy System Administrator DCU Networking Society http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie

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Redbrick Mail Changes
by Dizer 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

The Redbrick mail system is changing on Monday August 4th. Your mail will no longer be delivered to a ~/.mailspool file, instead it will be delivered to a directory called ~/Maildir/. This change will allow us to offer IMAP/Webmail services to our members. (For more information about Maildir format consult: http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html ) On August 4th, all Redbrick members will automatically be converted to the new format. (We ask procmail users to convert earlier if possible, details in a seperate mail) If you are a mutt/pine user with a special configuration file (~/.muttrc or ~/.pinerc) then you will be required to change your configuration files manually. After the conversion sample files will be placed in ~/.muttrc.suggested and ~/.pinerc.suggested. Failure to make the required changes could result in not being able to read newly delivered mail. Assistance in converting your mail and/or editing your configuration files is available from here: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/the_big_move/procmail/ http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/the_big_move/mailers/ If still in doubt about what changes to make contact the helpdesk team who are available to assist and may be contacted at helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . Regards, Redbrick Admin Team. -- Dermot Duffy System Administrator DCU Networking Society http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie

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New RedBrick Server!
by Colm MacC�rthaigh 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

RedBrick are getting a new server. A Dell PowerEdge 2650 to be specific. For the techies: it's a dual 2.8Ghz system, 4x 73Gb SCSI disks, on-board RAID controller, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and so on and so forth: http://tardis.redbrick.dcu.ie/996/www.euro.dell.com Over the next 3 months, we hope to have a reasonably smooth migration to the new server, and it's expected that we will all be logging into it as our main server from July onwards. Prodigy, our current server, won't be going out of use. Instead, we will be distributing services accross our machines to manage load better and to give a better quality of service. This will have some implications for the way you use the server though. There's a rough guide, that we'll keep up to date at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/the_big_move/ But what you need to know for now is that: * in return for a few slight inconviences everyone is going to get a lot more quota, a better quality of service, webmail and a better mail system. * You should use RedBrick PuTTy or "login.redbrick.dcu.ie" as the host you log in to from now on. * You should change any links/images on your site to use "www.redbrick.dcu.ie" where they would have used "redbrick.dcu.ie", or even better - use relative links * Your website will live at /home/webtree/[letter]/[username] on Prodigy, but we will provide symlinks so that your ~/public_html still works. * Over the month of June we are going to be migrating mail to an entirely new storage/access system. There are a lot of benefits to it, and we feel the benefits outweigh the inconvienence of performing the change. In many cases the moving of mail will be handled automatically, however if you have a complicated set-up, it may involve an admin or helpdesk member going through it with you. One other implication is that we will no longer be able to use procmail to sort mail, however we will have a very capable replacement called "sieve". * The big move will involve at least two periods of downtime. One is expected in early June, and should last only a few short hours. This will be to copy home directory to the new Dell. The other period of downtime will be to re-install prodigy, this will be between 1 and 3 days, during which our mail, web and database services will be unavailable, but we hope to keep it as short as possible. That's it! Any changes that will affect you won't happen for another month or so! If you have any questions about the move and how it will affect you, feel free to contact admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. -- colmmacc(a)redbrick.dcu.ie PubKey: colmmacc+pgp(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Web: http://devnull.redbrick.dcu.ie/

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Websetup Change
by Declan McMullen 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Hello everyone, This mail is to give you all advanced warning of a soon to be implemented change in the RedBrick Web setup. Users may experience a downtime of their webspace for roughly an hour next friday the 2nd of May. Technical details are below for those interested. Apologise for any inconvenience caused. regards Skyhawk Technical Info: -------------- Users webpages will no longer be located in /home/member/firstletter/username/public_html/ i.e /home/member/s/skyhawk/public_html/ instead they will be located in /home/webtree/firstletter/username/ i.e /home/webtree/s/skyhawk/ The conversion will be gradual over the next few weeks. The process will be: 1: /home/webtree/ directories created 2: All public_html directories moved to /home/webtree and symlinks placed in all accounts 3: Apache changed to read from /home/webtree only At this point anyone running websites from ~/public_html will no longer function. No user intervention will be required. -- Redbrick - Dublin City University Networking Society Declan McMullen - Webmaster

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SemNet Reminder.
by Nikki Kenny 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Heya guys, Just a little reminder to you all to pop along to SemNet tomorrow WEDNESDAY 26th MARCH 2003 - 11am-5.30pm Seminar Room, The Hub, DCU The time table for the day is as follows; 11.00 - 11.40: Dave Wilson, HEAnet IPv6 - future of the internet 11.40 - 12.20: Neil Costigan, School of Computing, DCU Identity Based Encryption 12.20 - 13.00: Karl Podesta, National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology Grid Computing in DCU 13.00 - 14.30: L U N C H 14.30 - 15.30: Tiarnan De Burca, Special Olympics World Games 2003 Network Architecture for the World Games 15.30 - 16.30: Pille Vengerfeldt, visiting @ School of Communications, DCU Social aspects of online communities 16.30 - 17.30: John Lyons / Brian Nisbet,HEAnet Leading edge technologies in the HEAnet network If you have any queries, don't hesitate to contact Karl, kpodesta(a)redbrick.dcu.ie It should be a brillaint day so at at least try to get to some of it! thanks, -- Nikki Kenny Chairperson DCU Networking Society www.redbrick.dcu.ie

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Redbrick Merchandise
by Eoin Campbell 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Howdy Folks, following up to nikki' post we've gotten thirty redbrick caps for members theres a pic of one here http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cambo/MAIL/cap.jpg if anyone would like to buy one, i'll have them in L125 until about 8 this evening. We also still have plenty of redbrick t-shirts available so if you want a t-shirt just mail committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie and we'll sort you out the t-shirts cost 7 Euro and the caps cost 10 Euro so come and get them -- Eoin Campbell ---------------------------- cambo(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Helpdesk/Education Officer Redbrick Committee 2002/2003

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Helpdesk Tutorials
by Declan McMullen 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Hello everyone, With the busiest weeks of the Semester drawing closer, DCUNS HelpDesk have completed the lab tutorials for this year. We would like to thank everyone who attended and especially everyone who gave up their time to give tutorials for us. All the powerpoint slides for the tutorials are linked from the help section of the website. http://redbrick.dcu.ie/help/slides/ The tutorials section of the site will continue to be updated with new tutorials. If anyone has an idea for a tutorial or would like to write one drop a mail to helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Many Thanks once again and good luck with projects and exams, regards DCUNS HelpDesk -- Redbrick - Dublin City University Networking Society Declan McMullen - Education Officer Email sent with RedBrick WebMail

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HelpDesk Tutorials Restarting
by Declan McMullen 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

Hello everyone, The RedBrick HelpDesk Tutorials will be restarting this Tuesday night at 7pm. They are held in LG25 in the Computer Applications building. This Tuesday will be a tutorial on the postgresql database. Hope to see you there, regards DCUNS HelpDesk -- Redbrick - Dublin City University Networking Society Declan McMullen - Education Officer

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