FAQ

Welcome to the dopsysadmin FAQ.

This faq contains notes about the GSRC/CHESS/Embedded/iCyPhy/MuSyc/TerraSwarm/TRUST websites.

The sources are available in gsrc space of https://repo.eecs.berkeley.edu and in https://github.com/icyphy/gsrcphp and https://github.com/icyphy/gsrcjavapages.

• Solaris/Linux Configuration
  • How do I install Solaris
  • Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
  • Disk full: the apache logs are taking up space
  • How do I create an account under Solaris?
  • How do I install Xvfb, the X11 Virtual Frame Buffer?
  • Process Accounting
  • How does syslog work?
  • What about disk backups and disaster recovery?
  • How do I patch Solaris?
  • What about SSH?
  • Tripwire
  • What about sendmail?
  • What software needs to be installed?
  • Problems with: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
  • How do I Install CVS?
  • How are CVS accounts created?
  • How do I set up CVS mail?
  • How does the CVS update button work?
  • Server Crash: Not enough space: fork: Unable to fork new process
  • Adding Memory to a Sun V240
  • rebooting a server remotely
  • What do I change after renaming a machine?
  • What do I change after changing the uid or gid?
  • Domain Name Servers
  • Hosting non-eecs websites at eecs
  • How do I install Xvfb for headless display
  • Migrating source
  • Hosting a simple website
  • Wessel server configuration
• Web Infrastructure
  • Overview of the CHESS/Embedded/GSRC/Trust Website infrastructure
  • PhP Overview
  • Restarting the website
  • PHP Upgrade
  • Uploading Large Publications
  • How do I change the account refusal message?
  • How do I edit PhP Files?
  • Web site statistics: Google Analytics/Webmaster tools
• Mail Handling
  • What was done to install InterScan VirusWall?
  • How does the web interface to Mailman work?
  • Installing Mailman
  • Adding a Mailman installation when adding a new website.
  • Disabling a user does not remove them from the mailing lists
  • qrunner problem: SyntaxWarning: name '_listcache' is assigned to before global declaration
  • What about open relays?
  • How do I create an alias at a site for an individual?
  • The Mailman admin interface is not saving my changes
  • Mailman CGI Error
  • No such list webmaster
  • Unbound method rejection_notice() must be called with ImplicitDestination
  • Mailman.Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError: bad marshal data
  • Maillman passwords are invalid
  • Email to the archive fails with \'unknown mailer error 2\'
  • Email to Google starts bouncing
  • How do I create a group mailing list on a non-workgroup site?
  • Email to .com addresses not getting through
  • A user has stopped getting email
  • Setting up DKIM
  • DKIM Problems
  • Email from Edward being marked as spam
  • Email Robot Cronjobs
  • Adjusting sendmail for backscatter
  • Bad Request: Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
• Apache Configuration
  • What are the current versions of the software?
  • How do I create a self-signed certificate
  • Web site statistics: Google Analytics/Webmaster tools
  • How do I add a new website?
  • How do I rename a website?
  • Where are the Apache logs kept?
  • How do I modify mime types and restart the web server?
  • How do I install MySQL?
  • How do I install Apache?
  • What do the alias rules do?
  • What do the rewrite rules do?
  • How do I set up Google Search to search a website?
  • server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
  • A download does not open in its application
  • How do I fix bad links using redirects?
  • Accessing Ptolemy home directories is slow
  • Using wget to mirror a site
• Certificate Authority
  • Multi-domain SSL Certificates
  • How can I view our current Certificate information?
  • How and when do we renew the certificate?
  • When I click on login, I get a server not responding message.
  • How do I update a code signing certicate?
  • How do I create a temporary certificate?
  • How do I install an intermediate certificate chain?
  • How do I get a personal certificate with which to sign email and timesheets?
  • Certificate has \"(CN) `AddTrust External CA Root\'\"
  • Domain Names
  • Problem logging in from a corporate site
  • Exclamation Point next to a https site url
  • What was done to force use of https instead of http
• MySQL
  • What are the MySQL Passwords
  • Deleting a non-publication attachment
  • Upgrading phpMyAdmin
  • Deleting a publication or publication attachment or publication upload
  • Removing a user or otherwise accessing user information.
  • Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared
  • How do I copy the database to a new machine?
  • Database Error: Cannot connect to MySQL server.
  • How do I change a username?
  • How does the prepublication facility work?
  • User has no permissions
  • How do I update the prepublication pdf watermark?
  • Cannot connect to MySQL server/Too many connections
  • Database Error: This user is not logged in. Cannot connect to MySQL server
  • How do I get information about instructor accounts
• Java Configuration
  • How do I make simple updates to the workshop, calendar or password pages?
  • What portions of the website use Java?
  • How to install Java
  • What is Tomcat and how do I install it?
  • What is Struts and how do I install it?
  • How do I install the MySQL JDBC driver?
  • Install Beanutils
  • How do I install the Jakarta regexp taglib and ORO?
  • JavaMail
  • Preparing a javapages release for the website:
  • Password Problem with Java Pages
  • Exception thrown by getter or couldn't find database name
  • Problem with \"cannot convert value ... to DATE\"
  • jsp pages are not found
  • JSP Debugging Hints
  • Requested Resource xxx.jsp not available
  • regexp URI cannot be resolved
  • allEnabledGroupNames of bean groupBean
  • Restart Tomcat
  • How do I deploy a servlet?
  • How are old JSP servlet files cleaned up?
  • Themes in posters for workshop registrations
  • Bad Gateway
  • Java running out of memory
  • java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.config.ApacheConfig
  • Parsing error processing resource path /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
  • The requested URL /embeddedj/resetpassword.jsp was not found on this server.
  • /icyphy/gsrcCalendar.do was not found
  • javax.servlet.ServletException: DecorationTag: Couldn't find database name for "auth" on site "www.cps-forces.org".
• Security
  • PhpSecInfo
  • Php sec_scanner
  • Bugzilla
  • New sqli_ Php functions
  • Cross Site scripting (XSS) and you
  • nikto
  • ratproxy
  • scrawlr - SQL Insertion Scanner
• Website and PHP Programming Tricks
  • Is there a PHP debugger
  • Checking for bad links
  • PhP 5 Upgrade
  • How do I install phpsecinfo?
  • How do I change the maximum upload size?
  • Users are having problems changing passwords
  • PhP 5.3.3 Upgrade
  • How do I hunt down URLs that suddenly break?
  • How is the group determined?
  • Which file do I examine for problems with PHP?
• Blogs
  • What are the blogs?
  • How do blog entries appear on the website?
  • How does the seminar ical/rss feed work?
  • MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file: News is empty!
• Wiki
  • How do I set up the Wiki System?
  • How to I enable SSL for PmWiki
• Application Facility
  • How do I enable Applications?
  • How do I control access to the application forms?
  • How do I preserve old applications and set up for new applications?
  • How do I hide an individual application?
  • How do I add a field to the application?
  • How do I export the applications as a csv file for Excel?
  • How do I update an application field?
• Copy of gigascale infrax faq
  • Copy of gigascale Infrax faq from 12/2008
• Workgroup Maintenance
  • What needs to be done to remove a workgroup?
  • What needs to be done to change a workgroup's name?
• Calendar administration
  • How do I add a Google Calendar
• Quarterly Reports
  • What about using the wiki for quarterly reports?
• MacBook Pro
  • How do I perform a clean install on a Mac?
• Version Control
  • How are version control accounts created?
  • svn update fails with: Working Directory: /home/www/0
  • svn update fails with authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge
  • svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error)
  • svn update fails with: Could not read chunk size: Secure connection truncated
• How to add video to the sites
  • How do I upload video to the eecs149 site
  • How do I upload TRUST videos to YouTube?