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- First, see the the "Getting Started in UT ATLAS" page. You'll need an account on the UT ATLAS cluster.
- Once you have your account, open a terminal window (linux), the Terminal application (OSX), or download and install an Xterm application for Windows (for example, MobaXterm is a good one, and free).
- On the command line
ssh
into one of thetau
machines, for examplessh -X -Y YOUR_USER_NAME@tau6.hep.texasutexas.edu .
- You should now have a command prompt on the machine. To make sure you can open an X-Window try
xclock
. You should see a little clock open in a window. You can kill the clock withCtrl-C
, or useCtrl-Z
and thenbg
if you'd like to keep it running in the background. (Here's a useful and brief overview of linux commands.) - Now take a look at what is in your
.bashrc
file. This is a list of commands that run whenever you log in. You can edit it withemacs .bashrc &
. (More about emacs can be found in this emacs tour.) - You should make sure (add) the following lines to this file:
export
ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE=/cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/ATLASLocalRootBase/
export ALRB_localConfigDir=/code/localConfig
. /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/ATLASLocalRootBase/user/atlasLocalSetup.sh
- Save the file in emacs with
Ctrl-X Ctrl-S
, and then quit withCtrl-X Ctrl-C
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