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davith (davith@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-29T11:45:41+00:00

How To's Guides for common administrative and user tasks. * Boot the HPC VMs * Update FreeBSD Servers * Manage Users * Backup a Dataset * Update Wikis Locally * View files locally in a browser See Also * Infrastructure * Tips and Tricks

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davith (davith@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-29T11:44:12+00:00

Tips and Tricks Quick one-liners and short guides. * Clear SSSD Cache * Kill All Processes of a User * Remove Spaces From Filenames * Get Your IP Address * Check Internet Speed * Format squeue Output * View files locally in a browser * dos2unix permission error solution See Also * How To's * Infrastructure

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davith (davith@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-29T11:42:19+00:00

dos2unix: Handling Permission Errors Overview When converting a file from Windows (DOS) line endings to Unix line endings, the usual `dos2unix` syntax may sometimes result in a permission error. For example: dos2unix filename may produce an error similar to:

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davith (davith@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-29T11:34:50+00:00

Viewing Server Folders in a Web Browser You can use Python's built-in HTTP server to browse files and folders on a server interactively through a web browser. This is particularly useful for viewing files such as `.html` files directly in the browser.

manage_users

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-28T10:38:25+00:00

Manage Users User management is done via LDAP on the ldap-01 jail on bane. We use ldapscript_extension, a fork of ldapscripts with additional commands like ldapaddsshkey and ldapsetusermail. Getting Started SSH into bane and enter the LDAP jail: ssh bane jexec ldap-01 All commands below are run from inside the

tips_and_tricks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-18T09:36:51+00:00

This page has moved to How To's. * Install Conda: see Conda * Update Wikis Locally: see Update Wikis Locally

updatingfreebsd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-09T14:02:12+00:00

Updating FreeBSD Servers All four physical hosts run FreeBSD. Upgrade them in this order: * mustafar * hoth * geonosis * bane This order matters: start with the least critical server so any issues are caught early. OS Patches SSH into the server and become root:

ticketing

varinka (varinka@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-05-10T18:33:12+00:00

Ticketing System (GLPI) ABI uses GLPI as its ticketing system for handling IT requests, project setups, and technical issues. You can access it at . Logging In * Go to * Enter your username (the same one as your ABI infrastructure username) *

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