20050721: hello form UNCA

>From: "Alex Huang" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200507211902.j6LJ2Xjo024243

Hi Alex,

>How are you doing?

I am well, thank you.

>It has been a wet June and July in the Western North
>Carolina, actually we have more than 10" of rain in June 2005, that
>makes it the second wettest June in the records.

I must get in touch with my sister to chat about this since she now
lives outside of Ashville!

>Thanks to these
>numerous summer thunderstorms, we have had some power surges.   I think
>one surge zapped our LDM server, storm2.atms.unca.edu.  Maybe it is not
>a bad thing, we need to replace storm2 anyway.

Too bad.  Is it totally dead?

>Right now I have a Dell P4 2.8 GHz machine with 2 GB memory and 2 80 GB
>hard drive with Fedora Core 3 running ready to become a LDM server.

Nice!

>As
>you know, I am not a system manager, and I remember you helped me setup
>storm2 last time.

Yup, I'm glad to help when I can.

>Can I ask you this favor again?

Certainly.  I can not commit to a specific timeframe for doing this
since I am deep in preparations for training worksops (LDM and McIDAS)
and am trying to get the last kinks ironed out of my McIDAS-X v2005
distribution so I can release it.

>If you can't, I will understand,
>because it is more than call of duty.  If you can help me, I will
>appreciate it very much, and I would like to have LDM, GEMPAK and McIDAS
>installed.

OK.  I will use this as an opportunity to test out my McIDAS distribution
on a new machine.  I hope you don't mind if I need to wipe the distriution
and start from scratch periodically (within the next month)?

>Both GEMPAK and McIDAS should be accessible from all current
>and future users using xhost.

Will the users login as 'mcidas' and 'gempak' or will they login
to different accounts and then need to run McIDAS and GEMPAK
from those accounts?

>Thank you for consideration.  I can provide password for
>storm5.atms.unca.edu to you later, should you decide to accept this
>mission. :-)

I will need the passwords for all accounts including 'root' (for one
LDM installation step; to setup the McIDAS ADDE remote server; and to
tweek the firewall settings to make sure that things are secure).  You
don't need to send the 'root' password if it is the same as the one
used on storm2.

Please send the access information to my personal email address
<address@hidden> without mention of the account names or
machine name.  I will figure this out.

>Regards,
>Alex
>Dr. Alex Huang, ATMS, UNCA
>address@hidden

Cheers,

Tom
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