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The SIPB Documentation Project is a project to document in written form the collective knowledge that SIPB members take for granted or use in maintaining services and projects that are not otherwise written down anywhere.

See SIPB Documentation for documentation produced so far. Existing documentation can always be improved.

Other SIPB educational activites include the AskSIPB column in The Tech, an array of IAP classes, and the weekly Cluedumps series each fall.

Documentation Ideas

This is a partial list of further topics that need documentation. Additions welcome.

• Debianization (started, open for someone to finish)
  How to package software for Debian and Ubuntu. Popular topic in SIPB projects thanks to Debathena and XVM.

  • "Printing at MIT"
  • lpq, lprm, queues.mit.edu

  • -i printadm (maybe)

  • "Using Debathena" -- You've installed Debathena -- now what? Automounter, blanche, cups; using stuff in the GUI.

  • "Athena Dotfiles" -- These are weird and nonstandard compared to traditional UNIX and should be documented, including things like .environment

  • There's some documentation at [http://web.mit.edu/olh/Dotfiles/]

  • scripts.mit.edu -- lots of neat internals to explain

  • AFS: There should be a central documentation point to using your AFS space, granting access through AFS and through web, accessing files from various platforms, and so on. Don't duplicate iAFS; perhaps latex2html and update it.

  Setting up servers:

  • "Client Certs" should explain, if for some perverse reason you don't want to use scripts.mit.edu :-), how to set up client cert authentication on your own machine (grab the CA out of the apache-ssl locker, submit a CSR to mitcert@, set up scripts' magic Apache modules to make your life easier)

  • Add your own here!

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