Boot Camp: Week 1: Thursday part of Bootcamp Week 1 by James Buszard-Welcher

Thursday

Review Lab Day

• formatting disk, mount, newfs
• building gcc
• other packages, etc.
• work as yourself if/when possible
• shell environment

Morning Talk

• ufsdump/ufsrestore
• syslogd quick overview
• cron
• xntpd

Quick Environment Review

• If you have not already done so, you may want to give yourself a different shell. /bin/ksh has some more advanced features than /bin/sh.
• Add /usr/local/bin, /usr/ccs/bin, /usr/ccs/lib, and /usr/sbin to your default path in your .profile.

Xntpd Lab

Check out the detailed reference. Sun uses multicast by default, so we want to turn that off. The 'xntpd' daemon does fine tuning of your clock. To start off, you will want to do an adjustment of the clock, then let 'xntpd' keep you synced.

• Find the ntp config files (hint: it starts at run level 2)
• add these lines to the config file and comment out multicasting. It would probably be a good idea to check for the closest open NTP public servers. The following is a suggestion:

  peer 128.118.46.3 peer 128.173.14.71 version 2 # otc1.psu.edu
  peer 128.118.25.3 driftfile /etc/inet/ntp.drift # path for drift file
  

• Make sure the config file is in the right place
• Do a onetime update to get your clock 'close enough' for the fine-tuning xntpd to take care of the rest. ntpupdate 128.118.46.3 128.173.14.71 128.118.25.3 If you are behind some kind of firewall, use the -u option to ntpdate.
• start the xntpd service by running the start script
• How do you know it's running?
• How will you check that it's working?

Ufsdump Lab

• backup /u using ufsdump to a /u2 file
• backup root using ufsdump to a /u2 file (different name)
• use ufsrestore tvf to check the validity of the dump
• umount /u
• newfs /u (careful! Make sure you have the right device)
• change it's mount location to be /home
• restore contents of /u to /home (cd /home and do restore)

Cron Lab

• As your personal login
• Make a crontab entry that updates the file /tmp/time every minute with the current date.
• findout where your crontab file is written
• erase your entire crontab

AOL Server Prep

• Pull down aolserver. First one to get it should put it in under the lab FTP server.
• make a /web directory under /home, and make a symbolic link from to /home/web from /web.

*Optional* Quick Network Lab

If you are ahead of the rest of the class, try this quick network lab...

• Use 'nslookup' to find out the IP address of the nameserver providing nameservice to our lab.
• Use traceroute to see how many

LUNCH

AOL Server Talk

Grab the AOL Server ini file here

AOL Server Lab

Build ImageMagick

I would like at least one volunteer to go from someone caught-up with the labs to through these steps. This volunteer should use Wimpy Point to make a presentation of the steps.

Readup On Answerbook docs for Solstice DiskSuite (mirroring)

Open Lab for those behind

This afternoon, we'll have an open lab to get people caught up. Those who are ahead can jump into installing qmail. The lab/prsentation points to a quick run down of the relevant information.

Last modified: Wed Jun 16 23:23:35 EDT 1999