This page contains information on how to manage the ALICE beast machine.

For a description of the machine hardware and WIP click here

Direct access to root user is discouraged. Administrators should use the sudo command to become root.

To elect a new administrator, it is enough to add them to the wheel unix group.

Fiddling with sudo configuration files is strongly discouraged.

usermod -aG wheel <username>

Example:

usermod -aG wheel pflorido

For system/distribution software installation it is recommended to use the yum command and the rpm system. Centos7 is a RedHat based distribution. The commands are pretty much the same as ubuntu. Here I give you a quick reference of most useful commands.

yum search <string>

Example:

yum search tmux

yum install <packagename>

Examples:

yum install tmux

yum provides */<expression>

Examples:

yum provides */libboost*

yum upgrade

You will be asked to accept the changes.