CDOT Development Systems

These machines are in the CDOT area on the first floor of the TEL building.

Ground Rules

1. Take responsibility for your actions.
2. Don't blow up other people's stuff.
3. Expect other people to blow up your stuff.
4. Don't turn these machines off.
5. Before rebooting, check with the other logged-in users, and check on #seneca on IRC on both Freenode and Moznet.
6. Work under your own account, using root as sparingly as possible. If you need additional accounts, create them, but put your name in the comment (GCOS) field.
7. Don't create public services.
8. These machines are never backed up. Backup your own stuff, frequently.

Disk Space

Keep an eye on disk space -- both your own usage and the free space on the machine. Delete stuff you don't need (especially temp files and build debris).

Most of the CDOT machines have unassigned storage within their volume group. If you need additional space in a filesystem and know how to use LVM safely, feel free to allocate additional space as needed, but do not assign more space than required for your work (it's easier to add space to a filesystem than to remove it to add it to another filesystem). If you do not know how to administer LVM safely, ask an experienced user to add space to the filesystem for you -- it's very easy to destroy a filesystem. Please experiment with and learn about LVM on your own systems or in a virtual machine.

Virtual Machines

Please feel free to configure KVM virtual machines on the PCs. Because virtualization technologies conflict, please discuss the use of other hypervisors before deploying them.

When using virtual machines, please:

• Use a logical volume (LV) for the VM image
• Shutdown the VM when not in use

Connectivity Status

The connectivity of the systems is tested every 5 minutes using ICMP echo (ping) and may be viewed on the CDOT Development System Status page.

Machine names, IPs, and Status

Please update this information as you work on the machines' configuration.
Click on a machine name to go to the page for that system. Please record details on that page about how the system is being used. A sample machine pages is located at CDOT_Development_Systems/ExampleSystem

Hostname	Type	Location	IP	OS	Notes
germany	PC - Quad Core, 8GB, 1TB	T1045	142.204.133.102	Fedora 10 32-bit
hongkong	PC - Quad Core, 8GB, 1TB	T1036	142.204.133.14	F12
india	PC - Quad Core, 8GB, 1TB	T1045B	142.204.133.28	F12
australia	PC - Quad Core, 8GB, 1TB	T1045B	142.204.133.24	Fedora 10 x86_64	Will be running a local build bot
canada	iMac	1045A	142.204.133.7	OS X 10.5.6
russia	iMac	T1045	142.204.133.101	OS X 10.5.6
easterisland	Mac mini	T1045H - cubicle E	142.204.133.121	Mozilla build environment installed: Xcode, MacPorts, Mercurial, Autoconf, libidl	Currently awaiting re-installation
spain	Mac mini	T1045E - cubicle A	142.204.133.122	Mozilla build environment installed: Xcode, MacPorts, Mercurial, Autoconf, libidl
china	PC - Quad core, 4 Gb, 500 GB	T1045E - cubicle B	142.204.133.36	F12
liberia	PC - Quad core, 4 Gb, 500 GB	T1045E - cubicle C	142.204.133.123	F10
newzealand	PC - Quad core, 4 Gb, 500 GB	T1045E - cubicle D	142.204.133.124	XP (with ethernet drivers installed) dual-boot with F10 (?)
ireland	PC - Quad core, 4 Gb, 500 GB	T1045B	142.204.133.26	F12
scotland	PC -Quad core, 8 GB DDR3, 6*1.5T	T1045A	142.204.133.22	F10

Tip:

These hostnames have all been added to the cdot.proximity.on.ca domain for convenience. If you add that domain to your search domains in your DNS configuration, you can refer to the CDOT hosts by name. If you are using Linux or Mac OSX, you can add a search domain in your /etc/resolv.conf file by editing the search line:

search whatever.was.already.here.com cdot.proximity.on.ca

To configure this on a Linux/Unix/OSX system for which you do not have administrative rights, use the LOCALDOMAIN environment variable. For example, you could add this line to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile:

export LOCALDOMAIN="cdot.proximity.on.ca senecac.on.ca senecacollege.ca"

Alternately, you can append the machine names and IPs to the hosts file (/etc/hosts on Linux and Mac OSX, c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows) -- do not delete the existing contents of that file, just add this text:

# CDOT host file - from http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php?title=CDOT_Development_Systems - 2009.01.28 version:
142.204.133.7       canada
142.204.133.22      scotland
142.204.133.24      australia
142.204.133.25      russia
142.204.133.26      ireland
142.204.133.28      india
142.204.133.30      hongkong
142.204.133.36      china
142.204.133.121     easterisland
142.204.133.122     spain
142.204.133.123     liberia
142.204.133.124     newzealand

After doing this, you can access the machines by name: ssh userid@liberia

CDOTnet

A gigabit ethernet LAN connects the PCs in the south end of CDOT (Australia, India, China, Ireland, and Scotland). The IP addresses on this LAN are 172.30.30.X, where X is the same last octet as the machine's external interface. These machines have DNS entries within the cdot.proximity.on.ca subdomain which are the same as the hostname with "2" appended (e.g., india2.cdot.proximity.on.ca refers to the CDOTnet interface on the host "india").

CDOTnet has no external interface and is therefore only useful for communication between the machines directly connected to it.

Equipment

• Four PCs - quad-core, 8GB RAM, 1TB disk
• Four PCs - quad-core, 4GB RAM, 500GB disk
• One PC - quad-core, 8GB RAM, 6*1.5TB disk
• Two Mac Minis - dual-core, 2GB RAM, 120GB disk + external drive, 24" displays
• Two iMacs - dual-core, 4GB RAM, ???GB disk, 20" display

Configuration

• On the 64-bit PCs:
  • Install the current version of Fedora as the base OS
  • Use virtual machines (KVM) as necessary:
    • Linux (Fedora or other)
    • Windows Vista
    • Windows XP SP3
• Some PCs will have Windows XP/Vista installed as the base OS (for high-performance video access, i.e., Canvas3D):
  • NewZealand
• Install the toolchain(s) required (e.g., for Mozilla development - Win/Linux/Mac)

PC Partitioning

500GB Drives

Drives are ~500 GB:

• Partition 1: 150 GB NTFS containing XP SP2
• Partition 2: 100 GB NTFS containing Vista
• Partition 3: 100 MB Linux boot partition
• Partition 4: Extended partition
• Partitions 5-9: 50 GB Linux LVM PVs (last one will be smaller)

Linux LVM LV layout:

• 50 GB / filesystem (ext3)
• 80 GB /home filesystem (ext3)
• 50 GB /var filesystem

1TB Drives

Drives are ~1000 GB:

• Partition 1: 200 MB ext3 /boot
• Partition 2: 200 MB ext3 /boot2
• Partition 3: 200GB LVM PV
• Partition 4: Extended partition
• Partitions 5-9: 200GB LVM PV (last one sized as needed)

Linux LVM LV layout:

• 50 GB / filesystem (ext3)
• 50 GB /home filesystem (ext3)
• 50 GB /var filesystem
• 8 GB swap filesystem

Software to be installed

(Remember, other tools can be added later!)

• Build tools required for Mozilla build (Win/Linux/Mac). NOTE: use VS.NET Pro on Win32 vs. Express
• PuTTY on WinXP/Vista
• Current version of FF2 and TB

Mac installed software

• Xcode3.0
• fink - (http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php)
  • download tarball, untar and ./boostrap (prees enter all the time to choose default)
  • . /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
  • fink selfupdate-cvs
  • fink install orbit orbit-dev
  • sudo apt-get glib

Computer setup

Windows setup

1. I used CPUID to discover the motherboard
2. Install ethernet drivers (Installed PRO2KXP.exe -- Ver:12.4 -- Date:2/24/2008 -- Size:11414 KB)
3. http://www.windowsupdate.com until you get all updates

Network setup

* 142.204.133.65   Gateway
* 255.255.255.192  Netmask
* 142.204.43.43    DNS 1
* 142.204.1.2      DNS2

Security

• Disable remote root/admin login on all operating systems.

Accounts

• Please create an account for yourself and use it for all development work on these machines.

Resources

• Reinstalling GRUB (needed to restore access to Linux when Windows is installed after Linux): http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/161-System-Recovery-Week-Dealing-with-Disk-Images.html