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| ====== Server differences ====== | ====== Server differences ====== | ||
| - | The plan is to move users from michelob and dark to the newer budlight and turn off the aging michelob and dark systems. Newer hardware and software might be installed later to replace michelob and/or dark, but they will not be the main servers for user activities, only for experimentation by users. | + | We have moved users from michelob and dark to the newer budlight and will turn off the aging michelob and failed dark servers. Newer hardware and software might be installed later to replace michelob and/or dark, but they will not be the main servers for user activities, only for experimentation by users. |
| === General environment and configuration differences between systems. === | === General environment and configuration differences between systems. === | ||
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| * Some commands in your .exrc might not work with vim. | * Some commands in your .exrc might not work with vim. | ||
| * Advanced features ov "vim" will not be available with "vi". | * Advanced features ov "vim" will not be available with "vi". | ||
| + | * The default editor on Linux systems, such as budlight, appears to be "nano" instead of "vi", so other commands that invoke the editor will probably invoke the wrong one if you normally use vi. The solution modify your shell's profile script, such as ".profile" to set the EDITOR variable to vi, for example, "EDITOR=vi". | ||
| * [[http://www.openssh.com/|ssh]]: | * [[http://www.openssh.com/|ssh]]: | ||
| * The SSH and SCP on michelob are very old, so some newer features are not available. | * The SSH and SCP on michelob are very old, so some newer features are not available. | ||
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| * elm is only installed on michelob. | * elm is only installed on michelob. | ||
| * The Apache web server is not installed on michelob. | * The Apache web server is not installed on michelob. | ||
| + | * sendmail is not installed on budlight, it has postfix instead. | ||
| + | * procmail is not installed on budlight. | ||
| + | * There are spamd daemons on michelob and dark, but not budlight. This is for use of the spamc command instead of the spamassassin command for faster performance when scanning for spam. | ||