July 10, 1996
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Two meetings are planned for next week, to deal with our Grant
Application to assist with CSuite development. In order to assist with
this effort, all members of the CSuite workshop are strongly encouraged
to participate in putting together the Administrative Document Set.
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Some progress has been made in putting at least minimal content in most
of the items. The form of the documentation was discussed at length, and
it was agreed that a sample be prepared. At the time of this writing,
the Mailing Lists
page is the best available example.
The intent is to prepare pages similar in style to Man Pages, using
various standard sections and lots of appropriate links, based on this
general format:
- Name
- name - One Line Description
- Overview
- paragraph
- User View
- characterise the user interface
- Administrative View
- characterise the administrative functionality
and interface, particularly as regards any tuning, maintenance etc. required
- Implementation View
- links to source browser and related information
- See Also
- links to related documents
- links to related functions
- Limitations
- No man page would be complete :-) without a bugs or
limitations section - editor.
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It is important always to use "update", when editing scripts and
documents under CSuite. ccn/bin/update
is a script
which invokes your favourite [or not, as it may be configured ;-) ]
editor after using RCS to check out to you, a controlled copy of the
file, to prevent editing collisions, and also redirecting your edit to a
master copy (when that exists) with variables to be substituted upon
reinstallation, thus supporting customized copies for Virtual Community Nets.
Note that edits done directly on a file will be overwritten the next time
update is used, so a direct edit could be used for a temporary change.
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Landon has been preparing an administrative function menu for the PATs.
It would be invoked by logging into the admin account.
- Menu items:
- diagnostics
- reports
- shutdown
- restart
- help - likely solutions
Suggested menu items should be directed to Landon.
All actions would be logged and forwarded to CCN, by a mechanism to be
determined.
Actions and notes would have a comment field for the administrators to
note who and why.
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Tony reported that the Editors group are responding very positively to
our draft IPdb editing system, bringing new ideas and enhancements.
The Group editor currently works with a copy of the editing groups file.
When we are satisfied the editing capability is totally bug-free, it will
be unleashed on the etc/group file.
domkip
invokes lib/edgroup to
edit the etc/group file.
The editors have requested a confirmation log daily report. As the
changes are now logged to /private/log/ip/YYYYMMDD, a script is needed to
interpret the log file, and mail it.
Entries in the log file are in the format "what|detail|date|who". It
will be necessary to check completeness of the logging capability.
The script ccn/lib/arch2html
is the current method to create mailing list archives, and should be used
for all mailing lists.
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