Deliverables

• A set of Debian packages and an installer that provides an end user with the ability to install the following features on a pre-installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) System.

Feature List

Required Functionality for Athena Preview Milestone

Applications

• Users can easily read MIT mail using Evolution or Pine.
• DONE 6/9.08 Users can print to Athena network printers with the lpr command and from applications which support printing.
• Users can run emacs with Athena site customizations.
• Subset: Athena machines have attach-and-run scripts in the default path for various bits of locker software such as the Moira tools.

Legacy

Legacy but de-supported features not supported in Preview.

Changes for Serial Reusability

Not Suppoted in Preview.

Changes For Shared Network Home Directories

Not supported in Preview.

Monitoring

Monitoring as implemented in Athena Clusters is out of scope. We will be able to count the installs from the apt repository to measure uptake of Preview.

Self-maintenance

• DONE 6/30/08 Athena machines have filesystem-level access to AFS.
• PROGRESS 6/30/08 The default GNOME panel setup contains a menu of important Athena locker software (currently unmaintained). For performance reasons, the files representing this menu must be stored on local disk.
• Athena machines almost always have the correct time as determined by time.mit.edu.
• Users can submit bug reports to the appropriate channel using the sendbug command.

Miscellaneous

• DONE 6/18/08 /usr/sbin/sendmail is configured to inject mail through outgoing.mit.edu and to use Kerberos authentication if the user has valid tickets. The sendmail queue is flushed once an hour in case mail has to be queued locally.
• Athena login sessions follow a complicated set of rules regarding user dotfiles.