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FAQ Welcome to the embedded FAQ.
- Getting Started on the web-site
- Information on how to get familiar with the site and start using its features.
- What is this site?
- This site consists of workgroups that are associated
with the Donald O. Pederson Center for Electronic System
Design.
You may also be interested in the following sites:
- Who can get a login?
- Currently, membership in each individual workgroup is determined
by the administrators of each workgroup.
Membership in the embedded workgroup of the website is open
to current UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.
- General questions about the website.
-
- How does the main page get updated?
- The best way to update the main page is to send email to the website administrators. The main page can be updated by key personnel who are administrators of the workgroup that corresponds to the site.
To become an administrator for the workgroup, send email to: webmgr at serverObfuscatedEmailName. If you are a member of the administrator workgroup, then there will be a 'CVS update' link at the bottom of the page that will update the page and a 'Help' link that discusses how to check out the website.
Once you have been granted administrative privileges in the chess workgroup, you can check out your own working copy of the chess site by doing:
cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_embedded co embeddedwww
Note that currently the top and bottom of the main page
is split in to two files
(embeddedwww/index_top.htm and
embeddedwww/index_bottom.htm).
These two files are read in by
php/embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/index.php,
which is in the php repository. To update
this file, you must know the www user
password on andrews.
Having two files control the main page is likely
to change.
For additional information about using CVS, see:
How do I edit pages in a group with the "CVS Authoring" option?
- How can I share a FAQ item with one of the other websites?
- It is possible to share FAQ items between the GSRC-related websites,
GSRC,
Embedded
and
Chess.
To add a FAQ item to your workgroup that has the same content as
an existing FAQ on one of the other websites, your website account
must have permission to read
the existing FAQ on the other website, and permission
to create one in its new location.
Simply go to the FAQ section where you want to add the new FAQ, and
click the "Add question" link in the left margin. On the resulting
page, read the brief instructions, and enter the URL of the existing
FAQ item in the box provided for that purpose.
Since the text of the FAQ is shared between two websites, the wording
of the FAQ should be general enough to apply to both sites.
- Missing menus/Javascript disabled?
Unfortunately, there is a security hole in Internet Explorer that can be exploited by having javascript enabled.
Microsoft
suggests setting the security level to high
and then adding specific sites to the list of trusted
servers:
- In Internet Explorer, select Tools ->
Internet Options -> Security
- Click on Trusted Sites -> Sites
- "require server verification" should not
be checked
- Add the following hosts:
http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu
http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu
http://www.gigascale.org
http://www.truststc.org
- Questions about the forums and FAQs
- Questions and answers about forums and FAQs: what they are and how to use them.
- How do I use Forums and FAQs?
- See the GSRC FAQ Section
Questions about the forums and FAQs.
- How do I attach or upload a file to an article?
- There are two types of attachments:
- When an article is created, one can upload plain text
or html to be used as the body of the article.
- After the article is created, one can upload
one or more named
files of any type, for example, PowerPoint.
When an
article is added one can
select whether file uploads are allowed.
If you upload a file with the same name as an
already existing file, then the contents of the
file is replaced with the contents of the upload.
Note that there is currently a 8Mb (actually 8,388,608
bytes) limit to the
size of the attachment that can be uploaded.
(The size is set in /usr/local/lib/php.ini)
If you would like to share larger files, then you may
want to set up your workgroup to use CVS authoring.
For details, see:
How do I edit pages in a group with the "CVS Authoring" option?
Don't forget that if you are checking in binary files,
you should use cvs add -kb filename
so that CVS knows that the file is a binary file.
For information about sharing files via email, see:
Why doesn't the GSRC Mailman system handle large attachments?
- Managing Group Mailing Lists
- Questions and answers about group mailing lists.
- Every time a user sends email, I need to approve it. Why?
- The workgroup email lists are set up so that for a user
to send email, they must be sending email from the
email address that they have associated with their website
account. If someone in the workgroup sends email from
a different email address, then the workgroup admin needs
to approve the message by hand.
If you would like someone to be able to post from a different
email account, go to the admin page for the mailing
list, follow the
privacy link
and add them to the following section:
Addresses of members accepted for posting to this list
without implicit approval requirement.
(See "Restrict ... to list members" for whether or
not this is in addition to allowing posting by list members
- Hardware/Software issues
- Notes about hardware and software.
- Using Eudora in the department
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Eudora
This was copied from
https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/15-faq/35-unsupported/20-eudora.html
Relevant
to Microsoft Windows clients only
1. Install Eudora 5.1 using Control
Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Add new programs
-> Eudora 5.1 (Add)
(NOTE: The version available from
'Add new programs' been customized to have
the correct information already added. For 'Add new programs' to work, you must have access to servers behind the EECS firewall via either VPN or be physically connected to the wired network)
An alternative is to download Eudora from
http://software.berkeley.edu/,
which requires a CalNet ID.
2. Start Eudora (Start
-> Programs -> Eudora)
3. Select Tools ->
Options -> Getting started
Add your name, return address and login
name. The rest of the information has been pre-configured.
Be sure that 'Allow
Authentication' is checked
d. 'Secure sockets when Sending' should be set to
'Required, START TLS'
e. Hit Ok, send a test message, which will fail the first time
f. (Eudora 5.x): Go back to Tools/Options/Sending Mail and click on
'Last SSL Info' and then 'Certificate Information Manager'
(Eudora 6.2): You might be prompted to add a
certificate, in which case you can skip g and h
below.
g. Find the Server Certificate for
US, California, EECS.Berkeley.edu, IDSG gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
and click on 'Add to Trusted'
h. click Done, Ok and Ok to close the windows
i. Resend the message by right clicking on it, selecting
'Send Again', Queue the message and then File/Send Queued Messages
j. You will be prompted for your LDAP Password and the email should go
through
Using
Gateway in Eudora 5.2
Eudora 5.2 does not appear to
function with the current configuration of gateway.eecs.berkeley.edu. A
few modifications in eudora.ini, which is located in your Eudora folder
(usually \program files\qualcomm\eudora\), should solve the problem.
Make sure to backup your eudora.ini file before proceeding.
Add these lines to the "[Settings]" section of eudora.ini: (makes it
look cleaner!)
SSLReceiveVersion=6
SSLSendVersion=6
SSLAltPortReceiveVersion=6
SSLAltPortSendVersion=6
This basically tells Eudora 5.2 to behave like 5.1 in it's SSL behavior.
Note that if you are using a mail server other than imap.eecs then your
LDAP password and the password you use on the mail server should
probably be the same.
If you are having problems with
your password, see Changing
your LDAP Password
For more information, see Secure
authentication on gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
4. Select Tools ->
Mailboxes (this shows your IMAP folders)
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How do I
import my old Eudora folders?
1) Copy and Paste your old
Eudora folder (very important
to backup first)
  
2) Uninstall The old Eudora (make
sure you made a backup copy first)
3) Remove the c:\Eudora folder
4) Follow steps at top
to install a new version of Eudora
5) Rename you mailbox folders
with .mbx extension (e.g. in-old, out-old, poptest-old)
  
6) Paste those folders from
your "Copy of Eudora" folder to your new "c:\Eudora" folder
7) Start Eudora,
configure for IMAP mail, notice your old folders are there,
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You can also import from other
mail programs (e.g. Outlook Express, Netscape)
 
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How to set up a pre-installed copy of
Eudora 5.1 with IMAP
1. Select the "Tools" File
Menu and Select "Personalities"
2. Right click on the personality you want to change (probably <
Dominant >) and select properties
3. Select "incoming mail" tab
4. Set configuration to "IMAP"
5. enter server name "imap.eecs.berkeley.edu"
6. Leave mailbox location prefix blank
7. select Full message download
8. select Authentication style "Passwords"
9. Set Secure Sockets when Receiving to "Required, Alternate Port"
10. Hit OK to close the properties
11. Follow How
to add/update a certificate in Eudora
instructions below.
How to add/update a certificate in
Eudora
Note: a number of similar
looking Eudora menus give different results, please follow closely.
1. Check your mail - It will
ask you for a password (enter it) and complain about updating the IMAP
index (hit yes)
2. The first connection will fail due to a certificate problem
3. Follow instructions below to add a new certificate.
4. After it fails: Select the Tools File Menu and Select "Personalities"
5. Right-Click "Dominant" and choose "Properties"
6. Select the "incoming" tab
7. Select the Last SSL information button
8. Hit "Certificate Information Manager"
9. Select "+" sign to expand the server certificate for imap.EECS and
hit the "Add to Trusted" button for the middle "Entrust" Certifcate.
10. Hit "Done", "OK", "OK" and you should be able to check IMAP email
now.
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How to add/update the
Gatway certificate in Eudora
Note: a number of similar
looking Eudora menus give different results, please follow closely.
- download the new
certificate from http://idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu/gte.cer
and save it to somewhere accessible on your harddrive (like your
desktop).
- try to send a test email -
it will fail.
- go to tools =>
options => sending mail
- click "Last SSL Info"
- click "certificate
information manager"
- click "import certificate",
select the downloaded certificate, and select open.
- click "done", "ok", "ok"
(close all the open dialog boxes)
- try sending another Email.
it should work now.
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How to hide Eudora Headers
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Under Eudora, the
TabooHeaders setting in your Eudora.ini file determines what headers
are displayed.
The easiest way to modify
TabooHeaders is to use the Eudora help system and search for
'TabooHeaders', and follow the instructions for editing Eudora.ini.
Under Eudora 5.1, the
Eudora.ini file can sometimes be found as C:\Eudora\Eudora.ini.
It looks like there is
not a default TabooHeaders line, but the Eudora Help system says that
the defaults are:
X-UID,Received,Status,X-UIDL,Message,In-Reply,X-Priority,Mime-Version,Content-,X
-Persona,Resent-Message,Referenes,Return,X400,X-400,Mail-System,Errors-To,X-List
,Delivery,Disposition,X-Juno,Precedence,X-Attachments,X-MSMail,X-MimeOLE
The thing to do is to add
to add X-Spam-Report to the above list.
To do this,
- Exit Eudora
- Edit c:\Eudora\Eudora.ini
- Add the following line as the second line, right after the
[Settings] line
TabooHeaders=X-UID,Received,Status,X-UIDL,Message,In-Reply,X-Priority,Mime-Versi
on,Content-,X-Persona,Resent-Message,Referenes,Return,X400,X-400,Mail-System,Err
ors-To,X-List,Delivery,Disposition,X-Juno,Precedence,X-Attachments,X-MSMail,X-Mi
meOLE,X-Spam-Report
- Restart Eudora.
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How to use filters
in
progress
- Launch Eudora
- Select Tools and then
Filters
- Click New (located in
the lower left corner..)
An outside link with filter instructions: http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/eudora/no-spam.htm
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- Editing group pages, and other forms of rocket science
- Information on how to set up and edit group home pages, and other advanced features of the site.
- How do I edit pages in a group with the CVS Authoring option?
- Based on text by John Reekie from the GSRC FAQ
Getting started quickly
Many of the workgroups have a CVS Repository associated with them. To update the pages, do the following
- Request a CVS account. Note that your login on source.eecs.berkeley.edu may be different than your login on the website. If you have a UCB EECS account, then
your login on source will be the same as your UCB EECS login. If your username on source is different than your
local account, then in the commands below you can use
username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu instead
of source.eecs.berkeley.edu, for example,
ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
- When you get email back notifying you that your
account on source is created, use
ssh to
log in to source.eecs.berkeley.edu and run passwd to change your password.
- Install CVS and SSH. If you are using Windows, try
TortoiseCVS,
- If you are using the command line, be sure that the
CVS_RSH environment variable is set to ssh.
- To check out the CVS repository associated with
a workgroup, you need to know where the repository is located. All the repositories for the CHESS, Embedded
and TRUST sites are on
source.eecs.berkeley.edu.
- CHESS
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess
- Embedded
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_embedded
- TRUST
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust
- If you are using a cvs command line client, then set
the
CVS_RSH environment variable to
ssh.
So, for example to check out the foo
website, on CHESS, the command lines would be
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
Or, if your login on source.eecs.berkeley.edu was ptolemy, the command lines would be:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
- Make your changes to your local copy of the repository.
- Commit your changes by providing a useful message:
cd foo
cvs commit -m "message describing your changes"
- Go to the website and click
on "CVS Update" at the bottom of the page.
Detailed instructions about Checking Out a Repository
Concurrent Version System (CVS) is a version control system that allows multiple users to edit the same source tree.
We use CVS to manage the content of group web pages.
Subversion (SVN) is newer than CVS and is used to
manage some software packages. Your Unix account
on source.eecs.berkeley.edu can be used with both
CVS and SVN repositories.
Bear in mind that CVS authoring is generally
useful for software projects, in which case we assume
that you know the basics of CVS and can use SSH.
For further information about CVS, see the
GSRC CVS FAQ
- If you are a group administrator check that
your group has CVS authoring turned on by going
to your group pages and then clicking on the
Admin link and then Configure Group
link and verifying that CVS Module
and CVS Checkin are selected.
If these two choices are not selected, then
select them and hit the Change Group Configuration
button at the bottom. This will send email to
webmaster, who will then set up your cvs repository
and send email back to you. While you are waiting,
you can proceed with the steps below.
- If you don't yet have a CVS account on
source.eecs.berkeley.edu, get one.
You can
request a CVS account.
- If ssh and cvs are not yet installed, then
install the SSH client and CVS
- Make sure that the CVS_RSH environment variable is set to
ssh.
To check under Windows, start up a Bash shell
(Start->Programs->Cygnus Solutions->Cygwin Bash Shell)
and type
echo $CVS_RSH. If it is not set, then
set it using Start->Settings->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables
CVS_RSH should be added and set to ssh.
You may want to check that your path has been set
to include Cygwin, which is located at c:cygwinbin
To check under Unix, start a shell and type echo $CVS_RSH.
If CVS_RSH is not set, then edit your shell startup files to
set it automatically. If you run C-shell (csh), or some variant
like tcsh, edit ~/.cshrc and add
setenv CVS_RSH ssh
If you run the Bourne shell (sh) or some variant like bash,
edit ~/.profile and add
export CVS_RSH=ssh
- Create a file in your home directory called
.cvsrc that contains:
update -P -d
This is necessary so that when you run
cvs update, then the -P
and -d flags are automatically appended.
cvs update -P -d will prune any directories
that contain no files and create any new directories
that someone else has checked in.
If you do not create a ~/.cvsrc file,
then you will need to run
cvs update -P -d instead of cvs update
- Once you have received email stating that your cvs account is setup, log
on to the cvs server with
ssh source:
ssh source.eecs.berkeley.edu
If your source login is different from your local login then you use username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
ssh username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
If you have a UC Berkeley EECS computer account, then
your login on source should be the same as your
UC Berkeley EECS login. If you don't have a UCB EECS
computer account, then your login is probably 8
characters or less and is your first initial followed
by your name. If you have questions, respond to the
email that you received when you got your password.
Once successfully logged in change your password with the passwd
command to something more reasonable
claudius@maury 67% ssh ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
ptolemy@source's password:
Last login: Fri Aug 27 17:50:34 1999 from maury.eecs.berke^M
No mail.
$ passwd
passwd: Changing password for ptolemy
Enter login password:
New password:
Re-enter new password:
passwd (SYSTEM): passwd successfully changed for ptolemy
$ exit
Connection to source closed.
claudius@maury 68%
-
- To check out the CVS repository associated with
a workgroup, you need to know where the repository is located. All the repositories for the CHESS, Embedded
and TRUST sites are on
source.eecs.berkeley.edu.
- CHESS
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess
- Embedded
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_embedded
- TRUST
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust
So, for example to check out the foo
website, on CHESS, the command line would be
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
If your username on source is different than your local username:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
- The CVS repository for each workgroup has
a
web subdirectory that contains the website.
There may also be adjacent directories that contain software
projects.
To change the website,
cd into the foo/web directory
and edit a file
- Commit your changes with
cvs commit -m "message about your change" fileyouedited
You will then be prompted for your password, and
the change will be committed.
- Go to a page in that workspace. You will see an "CVS Update"
link in the toolbar at the bottom of the page.
Click on it.
- Press on the "Go back" link and make sure that the
pages are what you expect.
Common Problems
Can't get the initial download
- Make sure you have the right username and password.
Use
ssh username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu to verify you can connect
- Maybe the
CVS_RSH variable is not set
to ssh. Try:
echo $CVS_RSH
you should see
bash-3.00$ echo $CVS_RSH
ssh
bash-3.00$
- Try
ssh username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu cvs --version
You should see something like
bash-3.00$ ssh ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu cvs --version
password: XXXXXX
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.22 (client/server)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Senior active maintainers include Larry Jones, Derek R. Price,
and Mark D. Baushke. Please see the AUTHORS and README files from the CVS
distribution kit for a complete list of contributors and copyrights.
CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.
Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
bash-3.00$
If you don't see that results, but you can log in,
then there is a problem with your account on source
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