Mac OSX Lab Meeting, March 22, 2004
Attending: Gretchen, Jeff K, Jan, DPugh, Scott, Suleman

22% discount on dual processor G5s must be ordered by tomorrow 5:00pm
(must fax order in) this is for servers only, not G5 desktops

MGrid
OSX Package called Condor, but won't restart a job if it's interrupted
Stats: 17 hour job on solaris, was 9 hours linux, 5 hours g5
  - Need info on configs. I.e # of machines, CPUs and memory.
Jeff will give a report on MGrid

http://www.bo.infn.it/condor-mirror/manual/v6.6/ref.html

Math is looking at XGrid package (from Apple)


Should we go back to Andrew Mortenson next week for a demo on how they're using radmind?
What needs to be decided is "what exactly do we want to see?"
Next lab meeting at LRC lab for Jan to demo his use of Radmind
After that meeting, we'll figure out what (if anything) we need 
Andrew to talk about.

Still to be determined: which servers will be used to serve however the lab images are served?  [currently] under-utilized netboot servers?  Departments each have their own?


Testing updates:
LDAP: tested by Dave, works...  Len will test from MN, too
Kerberized-Console: Done, needs more testing
Home Directory management:
Should home directories/profiles stick around?  ie - do we need to 
create a pkg that links portions of a home dir into a shared filesystem
or do we just rely on the user copying what they want to/from AFS/Windows?
  - sites doesn't do this because it creates a dependency on AFS
    (and assumes the user still has room in their quota for everything)
  - but on the other hand, it makes it so the user must proactively 
    copy what they want to/from AFS manually
  - the question of consistency across the college, University
Decision: Create two pkg's, one that symlinks into Windows, one into AFS
   Both pkgs will look at a line in /etc/hostconfig to get a comma
   separated list of directories in a user's homedir that will be 
   symlinked into the shared filespace.
   The AFS default cell will determine which AFS homespace will be used
   How about a script that users can have in their AFS Space that will link these "after the fact" on machines that don't automatically link them on login?  Could be done, obviously need to not run it as root, like the 
   rest of the loginhooks, though.
   "PlistBuddy -h" will show usage... can be used for creating and
   reading plist files
Windows Home Dir management:
   (will do the same as mentioned above):
Logout button on desktop:
   still have an "M" button on desktop that issues the logoff appleevent
OpenFirmware lock:
   no progress....  Dave will pass info back to Jeremy...
iHook:
   remain TBD
Managed Printing:
   locking printcenter?
   defaulting a machine to a particular printer?
   (no action this week - too many undecides right now)