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Collected by the IT/User Support Team
This is a collection of Questions & Answers that have been treated by the Computing Helpdesk managed by the User Support group.
N.B. The number in parentheses refers to
its relative numbering in the User Support "Question-Answer"
database, at URL:
http://cern.ch/consult/qa/NNN
where NNN is the problem identifier (number).
Question (QA 192) - Reset profile
on Windows NT
I lost my profile on Windows NT (or it is corrupted). Who can
reset it ?
Answer - Any authorized administrator can do it, including the Computing Helpdesk (78888) who have been granted these privileges.
To see the list of authorized people:
Start - System Management - Nice NT Domain Admin. - Reset local administrator passwordand then click on
"show authorised"
: you will find
all accounts that have the required privileges for this, including
`helpdesk'
.
The procedure to be followed by the administrator is then:
"NICE NT Domain
Administration"
(which had been added in the Domain tools
list) in:
Start - System Management - NICE NT Domain Administration
The tool only deletes the server copy of the profile and administrators still need to delete manually the local copy. The recommended way to delete the local copy is to log in as a local administrator and use the utility in
Control Panel - System - User Profilesselect the user account, and press the delete button. This will delete all the registry entries associated to the profiles.
\profiles\
is not enough
and you run the risk of creating multiple profiles with the same
name and extensions like .000, .001
, etc.
Notes:
http://cern.ch/consult/qa/193
Question (QA 204) - Visual
Studio and Visual Basic on NICE
Could you please clarify the puzzling situation with different
versions of Visual Studio, VC++, Visual Basic on
NICE?
Answer - Today we have two versions of Visual Studio available on our NICE servers:
1. Visual C++ V5 and Visual Basic V5
They come as two separate packages and can be installed via
the NICE Start Menu
:
8-Software Engineering, Development, Visual C++ (or Visual Basic)The service
pack 3
(icon 2 in both groups) for
this version has to be added after installing the main
product(s).
Applications developed under VC++ and VB mostly require
additional components to run properly (e.g OCXs and DLLs). For
applications developed with Visual Studio 5
, all these
components are already pre-installed on NICE, so the applications
compiled by the user will run on any NICE machine.
2. Visual Studio 6
This single package (including VC++ and VB) should be installed from the following path:
\\ntinfo01\vol2\Visualstudio6Enterprise, run 'setup.exe'Afterwards the service
pack 3
from VS6 should be
added from
\\ntinfo01\vol2\VisualStudio_Servpacks\Vssp3, run 'setupsp3.exe'Attention: Since the VS6 required components are not distributed on NICE, version 6 compiled applications will not run. The user has to deliver the required OCXs,DLLs and registry settings with his applications. In other words, he has to create a package. This can be easily done for VB applications using the
'Package and deployment
wizard'
in the VS6 tools program group. For C++ programs,
you can use the 'Depends'
tool to find the dependent
components. In any case, packaging applications will become the
standard on Windows 2000 and is the only way to distribute your
application(s) on large scale.
Question (QA 227) - Default
browser
How can I "force" my PC to open certain files (e.g.
.jpeg
) with Netscape
instead of the default
Internet Explorer
?
Answer - By default, the browser used
by the PC is Internet Explorer
. To change it to
Netscape:
From the Start
menu:
2 More applications
3 WWW
0 Set default browser Netscape
Question (QA 262) - NICE space
I need about 400MB disk space on my J:\ home
directory
(I am dealing with a lot of graphics). Actually I
have about 300MB of used space. The Helpdesk gave me an extra 50
MB, I got confirmation, but nothing happens. Why?
Answer - Most probably you have reached the "hard-coded" upper limit of 300 MB which cannot be over-ridden by the Helpdesk anymore and a manual intervention (from the NICE team) is needed.
Question (QA 265) - NICE server
How can I see on which NICE server(s) I am attached to?
Answer - From the DOS prompt
(Start - Applications - 12
) either type the command
net use
or whoami
.
Question (QA 268) -
Powerpoint and NICE logo
Using Powerpoint and CERN templates, how can I keep
the CERN logo and my personalised footer without having the NICE
logo ?
Answer -
"view"
into "Master"
,
then "slide master"
"NICE"
. The field is now surrounded by some manipulation
buttons.
'cut'
. The field
"NICE"
disappears.
'master'
window. Close it.
Question (QA 181) - Login scripts
intialization
I accidently erased my home directory contents: is there a way I
can re-initialize my login scripts (files
.profile,.cshrc,.login
and such)?
Answer - First note that your complete
directory from last night is available online in the
/afs/cern.ch/ubackup
directory corresponding to your AFS
login (i.e. /afs/cern.ch/ubackup/a/abcd
for login
abcd
) so you might be able to copy back the contents
from there.
If that is not sufficient then the command
"uco"
can be used on all UNIX central systems (type
"man uco"
).
Question (QA 194) - CPU time
exceeded in batch job
I submitted a batch job in the RSPLUS cluster and it finished due
to CPU time exceeded. For this reason it did not copy in my
directory the files created in $WORKDIR
. Is there a
way to retrieve these files?
N.B.The $WORKDIR
was
/pool/lsf/pilar/170289_135917
in rsbat001
.
Answer - Unfortunately not: unless the user explicitly specifies to keep some files in the work directory, all files - except the standard output - are deleted when the job terminates.
If files were kept, they could be copied back by the user
with a simple rcp
command, i.e. in your case:
[rsplus08] ~ > rsh rsbat001 ls -l /pool/lsf/pilar/170289_135917 total 32 -rw-r----- 1 pilar t2 13552 Nov 4 12:02 941588516.170289.out
Question (QA 195) - Linux machine
shutdown
What is the procedure to shutdown a Linux machine? Can I just
power it off?
Answer - From the machine :
<CTRL> <ALT> <F6>
keys altogether, then you should get a console prompt. Log as
root
, then execute /sbin/halt
telnet
:
userid
, then as
root
, then execute the /sbin/halt
command.
Question (QA 208) - GNU
make
There is a problem with GNU make
: gmake
is re-building the entire library even for the members which were
not touched.
Answer - This is apparently a bug which
has disappeared with GNU make
3.78.1. Since
end-December 1999 it had been installed on all platforms in ASIS
and the problem has disappeared on all central platforms at
CERN.
Question (QA 219) - LXPLUS and
LXBATCH
I want to run a batch job on the central Linux cluster, shall I
run the job on LXPLUS or LXBATCH ?
Answer - LXPLUS/LXBATCH is managed in a similar way as RSPLUS/RSBATCH:
Question (QA 220) -
"xlsbatch"
on LXPLUS
When I run the command "xlsbatch"
on LXPLUS I get a
core-dump, while on RSPLUS it displays the job status as it
should.
Answer - There is a known bug on Linux
with LSF programs using X core dump (such as
"xlsbatch"
) when these programs print a warning message at
startup. This can happen if there are not enough colours available:
then the command "xlsbatch"
can crash or not depending
on whether
Netscape is open or closed respectively in the X
session. It can also crash when there is a message for missing font
(or any other warning message).
N.B. "xlsbatch"
for Linux will be upgraded as
soon as CERN will receive a fix for it. Meanwhile it can still be
used provided that there are enough colours available in the
colormap when launching it. Alternatively, equivalent LSF line
commands (bhosts / bsub / bqueues /
etc.) can be used
instead.
Question (QA 225) - "invalid
user"
from "stagein"
command
I'm having trouble staging tapes. When I try to stage in a tape
with the "stagein"
command, it fails with an
"invalid user"
error:
stagein -v LT0097 -q 1 Ze20 STG11 - invalid user: 6919So it looks like I don't have permission to stage atlas tapes.
Answer - The first thing to be checked
is that the users has 2 accounts (login) on TAPES
and the ATLAS Work Group Server ATLAS_WGS
(or
CMS_WGS
for CMS staging).
Question (QA 182) - Strange
characters in Word document
I find very strange characters in my Word document
which make it difficult to read (e.g. all spaces contain these
characters). However, it's perfectly ok when I print (the
characters are not printed then).
Answer - While you view or edit a
document on the screen, you can display characters such as
tab
characters, spaces, and carriage returns
that don't appear on the printed page. (For example,
Word uses arrows to represent tab
characters
and dots to represent spaces.)
To see if you added an extra space between words, typed spaces instead of a tab character, and so on:
Tools
menu, click Options
,
and then click the View tab
.
Nonprinting characters
, select the check
boxes of the characters you want to display.
All
check box instead of selecting each individual
check box, and deselect it when you want to get rid of them.
Question (QA 184) - Installing
Internet Explorer 4
I tried to install Internet Explorer 4 from the
Start
Menu (Start->2->3->1s
) but
it fails when trying to install the components. All the items are
marked with a red cross and I get the error message that the
installation failed. Nothing more.
Answer - In the last few months NICE system people have noticed PCs having corrupted registry settings preventing MSIE4 or MSIE5 from being installed. They checked that this problem does not come from NICE itself (otherwise they could have fixed it for everybody).
The only workaround to this problem is to do a full re-install of Windows/95 before installing MSIE4. Once this is done the user should not have any further problems.
Question (QA 185) - Internet
Explorer version
Which version of Internet Explorer is supported by
NICE?
Answer - MSIE4 has been replaced by MSIE5. This is the only version you can install from NICE. but people who use MSIE4 can continue to do so.
Please note that MSIE3 does not work correctly with the current NICE nor with numerous Web sites around the world.
When users complain about MSIE, it is important to know
which version they run with:
Help menu - About
.
Question (QA 190) - Directory
browsing from the Web on NICE
I would like to be able to do a directory browsing from the Web of
the directory (for example) :
\\srv1_home\usr11\HOME\USER\MyDocs\What is the way to do it? Can I make my "Public" directory browsable too?
Answer - nicewww
considers
now the "root" of all files accessible from the web to be the "www"
folder in your home directory. Thus if you try to retrieve
http://nicewww.cern.ch/~USER ,it will try to get
default.htm
from your
j:\www
, not just j:\
.
The same situation exists with directory browsing requests. If you
enter http://nicewww.cern.ch/~USER/abc/
in your
browser, you will get:
j:\www\abc
if
directory browsing is enabled in
j:\www\nicewww.ini
.
default.htm
file if directory browsing is
disabled (and the file exists, of course).
http://nicewww.cern.ch/doc/usere/uswwwe/uswwwe2.htm
Concerning the "Public" directory browsing: Unfortunately, you can not make contents of your Public folder available from the Web. Your web space is mapped to your j:\www folder, for example
http://nicewww.cern.ch/~USER/ will show you contents of the j:\www folder http://nicewww.cern.ch/~USER/foo/bar/ - contents of the j:\www\foo\bar.To enable directory browsing you have to put a nicewww.ini file into the j:\www folder, containing the following lines:
[NiceWWW] EnableDirectoryBrowsing = 1
This is all explained in:
http://cern.ch/consult/cnl/230/art_enice.html
Question (QA 199) - Default
Web-page
What are the filenames usable to display a default Web-page ?
Answer - On
wwwinfo.cern.ch
, consult.cern.ch
and
home.cern.ch
the sequence of files which are searched for in
a directory for is the following (in order of precedence):
NB: The extension .shtml
is used for
server parsed files. For more information please have a look at
http://cern.ch/consult/qa/60
Question (QA 210) - Priority for
search engines
How can I ensure that people using search engines on the Web and
looking for "my type of information" will find it at the top
of their list?
Answer - As stated in the the
Infoseek manual (http://wwwsearch.cern.ch:8765/help/meta.html
),
you can put the following line in the HEAD
section of
your pages (especially in the home page):
<META name="keywords" content="MY_TYPE_OF_INFO, RELEVANT_KEYWORDS">Like that, the search engine will index your page giving a higher rate to these keywords, making your page appear higher in the result list, if the search was on these keywords.
N.B. You can read more on metadata at URLs:
http://www.cern.ch/WebOffice/Doc/DCmetadata.html http://www.cern.ch/WebOffice/Presentations/Tutorials/Metadata/ http://www.cern.ch/WebOffice/Presentations/Tutorials/Searching/ http://cern.ch/consult/cnl/233/art_metad.html
Question (QA 217) - Password
protection
Would you please explain to me how I can introduce a password on
my home page?
Answer - If the page is in AFS and
served by home.cern.ch
then one should know that
protections are not allowed (in principle) on that server. For
other hosts running the Apache Web Server (e.g.
wwwinfo.cern.ch
) a typical .htaccess
and
.htpasswd
(file for private page protection) extract can be
found in a previous CNL, at URL:
http://cern.ch/consult/cnl/236/apache.html
Question (QA 189) - Colour problem
with Exceed
In order to run "xwpick"
with Exceed, I
had to change the default "Video" setting into
"PseudoColor"
mode (instead of "Auto Select"
which is the default).
See
http://cern.ch/consult/qa/2254
An unexpected feature is that it then changes the colours in the output. What can be done to avoid this problem?
Answer - This is a bug in Exceed and we still expect a proper solution from Hummingbird's. However it seems that you can solve the problem by changing the "Display Properties" settings from 16 bits planes to 8 bits planes:
Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Display --> Settings -->The bug is the following: if the Windows 95 color depth is 16 while the server is using only 8 planes (PseudoColor) - setting required by
xwpick
to work properly - the
XGetImage()
call capture 8 planes, but not those used by the
X server itself. This can easily be seen using the standard
xwd/xwud
programs from the X11R5 distribution.
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