How to Set up our Servers

David says: This is what UrbanSim uses. We still have some details to iron out on this for CSE 403.

While we don't expect to set up a server often, it is good to have notes about what it takes to do so, just in case.

Linux Build Computer

• We have two "extra" accounts: urbbuild and urbworkr.
  • The urbbuild account is used by the Fireman build system. The ~urbbuild home directory contains a Fireman subdirectory with all the Fireman code from our CVS repository, the Fireman.builds subdirectory where all the builds happen, and the Fireman.flags subdirectory with various build related flag files.
  • The urbworkr account is the read-write repository access account. The CVS passwd file maps external read-write accounts to the urbworkr account.
• Xvfb server running as display :1.0 via the command line option -sc :1
• JDK 1.3.1_01 with an appropriate global setting of JAVA_HOME

Setting up our Fireman Build System

• Login as urbbuild
• Checkout the Fireman module from our CVS repository.
• Create the ~/Fireman.flags directory and give it rwxrwxr-x permissions and group urbansim
• Set up a crontab to run every minute executing the runfireman.pl script.

Windows Build Computer

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Linux File Server

trondheim.cs.washington.edu is our file and CVS server, also maintained by the CSE lab staff.

• CVS pserver installed with --allow-root=/projects/urbansim/production-code --allow-root=/projects/urbansim2/repository

Third-Party Tools

In addition to the global tools and libraries on the build machine (above), we also have the /projects/urbansim/third-party directory containing all the other necessary pieces. If you want to use these pieces (and you do, if you want to build the UrbanSim code on Linux), you can set all the necessary path and environment variables by 'source'ing the user-cshrc file.

• Ant
• JavaHelp 1.1
• JExpressProfessional 4.5.5
• MySQL
• postgresql