Save The Bits

eric1 wrote on Apr 11, 2006

What program do I run to create accounts in a downloaded version of Save The Bits?

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Rob Seaman wrote on Apr 11, 2006

What program do I run to create accounts in a downloaded version of Save The Bits?

I'll need further information to understand the context of this question well enough to answer it. STB is a unix daemon (not strictly IRAF, per se) which is executed by a BSD-style line printer queue to write data to tapes or CDs. This is legacy software that has been retired from operation at KPNO, CTIO and WIYN in favor of a much modified "iSTB" daemon that is responsible for constructing an online, spinning disk, directory structure on terabyte scale data stores as a first step toward incorporation of data products in a scientific archive. Organizations outside of NOAO have used STB at various points, but we don't support this software for individual use.

Rob Seaman
NOAO DPP Operations Group

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eric1 wrote on Apr 11, 2006

I mean how do I create the two accounts needed in Save The Bits once it is uploaded?

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 11, 2006

Since you mentioned SuSE in your other posting....Users are created with the /usr/sbin/useradd command, see the man page for details.

Rob will probably follow up with STB-specific questions if there are any.

-Mike

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