[m-rev.] diff: update hosts and newhost files

[Julien Fischer]

local/hosts:
	Update the list of hosts:
		- ender, hg and roy have been retired
		- jupiter and earth have different OSs
		- mention the machines we've borrowed for summer 2005/2006.

local/newhost:
	Mention that a copy the crontab for user mercury for each machine
	should live in /home/mercury/public/cron/cron.<HOSTNAME>.

	For Windows machines password expiry should be disabled.

	Mention how to allow ssh access to Cygwin sessions on
	Windows machines [XXX this is incomplete].

Julien.

Index: hosts
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/local/hosts,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 hosts
--- hosts	9 Nov 2005 08:45:53 -0000	1.8
+++ hosts	3 Feb 2006 06:20:14 -0000
@@ -5,20 +5,9 @@

 # Linux PCs; used both as desktop machines and as servers

-
-
-ender		# 450MHz Pentium-III, 512kb L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
-		# Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (stable),
-
-hg		# 500MHz Pentium-III, 512kb L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
-		# SuSE Linux 6.3,
-
-roy		# 600MHz Pentium-III, 512kb L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
-		# Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 / Windows 2000 Server / Windows 98,
-
 earth		# 1100MHz AMD Athlon,
 		# 64kb L1 icache, 64kb L1 dcache, 256k L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
-		# SuSE Linux 8.1
+		# Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ("Sarge")

 ceres		# 1600MHz Intel Pentium IV,
 		# 512Mb RAM,
@@ -30,7 +19,7 @@

 jupiter		# 2400MHz Intel Pentium IV,
 		# 512Mb RAM,
-		# SuSE Linux 8.1
+		# Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ("Sarge")

 swordfish	# 2400MHz Intel Pentium IV,
 		# 512Mb RAM,
@@ -55,7 +44,22 @@
 		# Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
-# PCs temporarily in our possession over summer 2004/2005.
+
+# PCs temporarily in our possesion over summer 2005/2006
+
+sophie
+polychrest
+lively
+surprise
+leopard
+boadicea
+		# 3.2GHz Intel Pentium IV,
+		# 1Gb RAM,
+		# Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ("Sarge")
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
+
+# PCs temporarily in our possession over summer 2004/2005

 ascolais	# 2400MHz Pentium-IV, 512kb L2 cache, 512Mb RAM
 		# Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (Woody)
@@ -86,6 +90,15 @@
 		# 64kb L1 icache, 64kb L1 dcache, 256k L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
 		# Debian GNU/Linux Woody (testing),

+ender		# 450MHz Pentium-III, 512kb L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
+		# Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (stable),
+
+hg		# 500MHz Pentium-III, 512kb L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
+		# SuSE Linux 6.3,
+
+roy		# 600MHz Pentium-III, 512kb L2 cache, 256Mb RAM,
+		# Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 / Windows 2000 Server / Windows 98,
+
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#

 # Aliases:
Index: newhost
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/local/newhost,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 newhost
--- newhost	16 Dec 2005 04:11:40 -0000	1.18
+++ newhost	3 Feb 2006 06:30:46 -0000
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	- alkibiades

 	Or, if a more negative connotation is preferred
-  	(e.g. for machines running proprietry operating systems ;-),
+  	(e.g. for machines running proprietary operating systems ;-),

 	- liar
 	- thief
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 - install OS (e.g. Linux)

 - assign DHCP entry:
-	- For new machines, fill in form at http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/register/
+	- For new machines, fill in form at <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/register/>
 	  and wait for sysadmins to apply it.  Be sure to include the host
 	  name in one of the fields of the form.
 	- For existing machines that already have a DHCP entry (such as
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
 	  mail to this mailname is delivered locally rather than to the
 	  smarthost.  If you don't do this, then mail sent to root may go to
 	  root at cs.mu.oz.au, which is almost certainly not what you want.
-	- Mail for root should be directed to somwhere that it will be read,
+	- Mail for root should be directed to somewhere that it will be read,
 	  preferably your CS account.  This can be set in /etc/aliases, but
 	  if you don't get the previous step right then this won't work.
 	- Under Debian, you can reconfigure exim with the command
@@ -162,6 +162,18 @@
 	- make sure lpd is installed.
 	- mail sysad at cs.mu.oz.au to get printing enabled.

+- set up ssh [Cygwin only]
+	- install ssh as a Windows service. (XXX how to do this).
+	- as administrator update Cygwin's password and group files via the
+	  commands:
+
+			mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
+			mkgroup -l > /etc/group
+
+	  The above commands need to be run *each* time a user is added to a
+	  Windows machine in order for ssh access to Cygwin sessions to be
+	  enabled for that user.
+
 - Add links to bash and perl in the /usr/local/bin directory, so that the
   '#!' lines in some of our scripts will work.

@@ -177,7 +189,8 @@
 	  into /home/mercury/public/mercury-{latest,0.10}/<FULLARCH>,
 	  for bootstrapping
 	- set up cron entry for `mercury' user to run `runtest'
-	  (a.k.a. tools/run_all_test_from_cron)
+	  (a.k.a. tools/run_all_test_from_cron).  A copy of the crontab
+	  should reside in /home/mercury/public/cron/crontab.<HOSTNAME>.

 - add host to the list at the top of 'local/hosts'.


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