Linux at GSI

Contact

  • The Linux group announces operational issues over the GSI-LINUX-ALL mailing list! All owners of a LinuxAccount are automatically subscribed to that list.

  • If you have questions concerning user accounts eg. resetting passwords please contact the User Help Desk (☎ 2515).

Reporting Issues

Beforehand you may want to browse TipsTricks and FrequentlyAskedQuestions, as well as read the "how to" documentation further down.

Also check http://gsi.de/it-status for IT incident announcements.

In case of operational issues open a trouble ticket by sending a mail to linux-service@gsi.de.

Trouble-tickets should contain the following information:

  1. Your Linux user account name.
  2. The hostname of the computer you are using.
  3. The error message you receive.
  4. Possibly the command-line your are executing in a shell.

Services

Documentation

  • FileSystems -- Where to find home-directories of other users, application software, simulation and analysis data? (LustreFs, CVMFS)
  • MachineTypes -- What is the meaning of these lx... names anyway?
  • Tips'n'tricks -- How to tweak your KDE, XFCE, ssh, Mozilla and relatives, keyboard. How to work with MS office documents, audio, video and graphics data
  • HowTo...
  • Index of all Topics

Software

We are running Debian GNU/Linux, primarily release 8 (Jessie) at the moment. For further information on our road-map take a look at the ReleasePlan. Refer to the list of Debian books for a general overview.

Howto...


Topic revision: r172 - 2023-02-28, ChristopherHuhn
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