Common HEP UNIX Environment


After it had been decided to design a common user environment for UNIX platforms among HEP laboratories, a joint project between DESY and CERN had been started. The project consists in 2 phases:

  1. Provide a common user environment at shell level,
  2. Provide a common user environment at graphical level.

The phase 1 is in production at DESY and at CERN as well as at PISA or RAL. It had been developed around the scripts designed at DESY Zeuthen improved and extended with a 2 months project at CERN with a contribution from DESY Hamburg. It consists of a set of files which are customising the environment for the 6 main shells (sh, csh, ksh, bash, tcsh, zsh) for the main platforms (AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, SunOs, Solaris2, OSF/1, ULTRIX, etc.) and it is devided into several "sociological" levels: HEP, site, machine, cluster, group of users and user with some levels which are optional.

The second phase is under design and a first proposal had been raised. A first version of the phase 2 exists already for AIX and Solaris. The other platforms should come soon. A second HEPiX-X11 working-group session occurs the 30th of May. At CERN UMTF-X11 working-sessions are running weekly.

If you want to install the HEPiX scripts consult the sysadmin document:

	http://wwwcn.cern.ch/hepix/wg/startup-scripts/sites/cern/sysadmin/sysadmin.html
If you want more information on phase 1 of the project, consult:
	http://wwwcn.cern.ch/hepix/wg/startup-scripts/www/Welcome.html
The documents there obsolete the former "Proposal for a Common Script and X environment at DESY and CERN", document number 168 at the CERN UCO.

If you want more information on phase 2, consult:

	http://wwwcn.cern.ch/hepix/wg/X11/www/Welcome.html

Arnaud Taddei