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Added by Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza almost 11 years ago
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ssh -t vegbiendev.nceas.ucsb.edu exec sudo su - aaronmk |
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cd /home/bien/svn # should happen automatically at login |
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Notes on system stability: |
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**WARNING**: system upgrades can break key parts of the full-database |
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import, causing errors such as disk space overruns. for this reason, it |
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is recommended to maintain a snapshot copy of the VM as it was at the |
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last successful import, for fallback use if a system upgrade breaks |
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anything. system upgrades on the snapshot VM should be disabled |
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completely, and because this will also disable security fixes, the |
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snapshot VM should be disconnected from the internet and all networking |
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interfaces. (this is an unfortunate consequence of modern OSes being |
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written in non-memory-safe languages such as C and C++.) |
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Notes on running programs: |
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**WARNING**: always start with a clean shell, to avoid spurious bugs. the |
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shell should not have changes to the env vars. (there have been bugs |
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/README.TXT: Notes on system stability: added recommendation to maintain a snapshot copy of the VM as it was at the last successful import, for fallback use if a system upgrade breaks anything. system upgrades on the snapshot VM should be disabled completely, and because this will also disable security fixes, the snapshot VM should be disconnected from the internet and all networking interfaces. (this is an unfortunate consequence of modern OSes being written in non-memory-safe languages such as C and C++.)