EDG System Administration

Put them in /net/sw/mosis/downloads. Inside the kit file, there’s usually a file called kit_install. Just run that and follow the prompts.

[mary@server1 CMRF8SF_DM_Assura_QRC]$ ./kit_install

  IBM Design Kit Install Utility

  This shell script installs IBM Design Kits from a directory containing
  the distribution files to a specified destination directory .

  Enter your installation path up to but not including IBM_PDK: 
  /net/sw/mosis

  This package contains components or add-ons for any base release (V1.5.0.x).

  Continue with install? Enter Yes or No (y|n): y

  The distribution files are located in: /net/sw/mosis/downloads/CMRF8SF_DM_Assura_QRC
  Enter Yes or No (y|n): y

  No  "rel" symbolic link was found.  Do you want to create
  the "rel" symbolic link to point to V1.5.0.0DM (useful for PATH
  statements)? This is optional.
  Enter Yes or No (y|n): y

  You have a kit with an option.  Would you like the symbolic
  link recognizable as "relDM" and NOT "rel" : 
  Enter Yes or No (y|n): y

  *** Install package(s): 
         cmrf8sf_CadenceQRC.V1.5.0.0DM
  *** Install to directory: /net/sw/mosis/IBM_PDK/cmrf8sf/V1.5.0.0DM
  *** Install from directory: /net/sw/mosis/downloads/CMRF8SF_DM_Assura_QRC
  *** Set up symbolic link "relDM" to link to V1.5.0.0DM

  Do you wish to continue? 
  Enter Yes or No (y|n): y


  After successful installation, you may delete the distribution
  files from /net/sw/mosis/downloads/CMRF8SF_DM_Assura_QRC to recover space.

  *** Installing cmrf8sf_CadenceQRC.V1.5.0.0DM *** (this may take several minutes)
  Installation of cmrf8sf_CadenceQRC.V1.5.0.0DM Complete

  Update /net/sw/mosis/IBM_PDK/cmrf8sf/V1.5.0.0DM directory? 
  This will update the appropriate kit files with your .
  Enter Yes or No (y|n): y

  Path update script has been run with the following message:

   Updating files in /net/sw/mosis/IBM_PDK/cmrf8sf/V1.5.0.0DM/


  Symbolic Link "relDM" set to V1.5.0.0DM

  Moving /tmp/.install_log_cmrf8sf.V1.5.0.0DM.CadenceQRC_by_mary_on_03.23.09.29.13
  to /net/sw/mosis/IBM_PDK/cmrf8sf/V1.5.0.0DM

  Moved  /tmp/.install_log_cmrf8sf.V1.5.0.0DM.CadenceQRC_by_mary_on_03.23.09.29.13
  to /net/sw/mosis/IBM_PDK/cmrf8sf/V1.5.0.0DM

From Mentor Graphics support:

Problem
ICX or Tau: ‘Error: Can’t open display:’

Problem trying to run ICX on an X server

When trying to invoke ICX or Tau you get a “can’t open display” error message.

Solution
To resolve the issue you must enable TCP connections to the X server.

As root, edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and change the line that reads ‘#DisallowTCP=true’ to ‘DisallowTCP=false’ (note the comment is also removed). Reboot the system to make the change take effect.

When DisallowTCP is true (this is the default) the X server is started with the ‘-nolisten tcp’ option, which prevents TCP connections to the X server.

Tools to use to monitor website traffic and bandwidth usage are webalizer and mrtg, respectively. Webalizer is quite easy to set up, just edit /etc/webalizer.conf to tell it where to write files. I also made those files only accessible to our subnet. And then run a daily cron job to generate the files.

I’m still setting up mrtg and will put my notes up as soon as it’s done.

I have a few computers that kept showing up as “Not Checking In”, in my Redhat profile. However, if I logged on to those computers and run up2date everything would work fine. The problem was in the rhnsd. Once I restarted that and killed any other rhn things running, the system would checkin, on its own, within two hours.

In order to have a Calibre menu choice appear in Virtuoso Layout, normally adding the following line is all that’s needed:

;; Integrate Calibre menu
load( strcat( getShellEnvVar("CALIBRE_HOME") "/shared/pkgs/icv/tools/queryskl/calibre.skl" ))

We use CALIBRE_HOME for our calibre home. If you use MGC_HOME, change the above line to MGC_HOME and you’re all set.

Since we use CALIBRE_HOME, we also needed to change some other files to use CALIBRE_HOME instead of MGC_HOME. A search and replace was all that was necessary to achieve this. The files that needed to change were:

in CALIBRE_HOME,
shared/pkgs/icv/tools/queryskl/calibre.skl
shared/pkgs/icv/tools/queryskl/mgc_calibre_menu.skl
shared/pkgs/icv/tools/queryskl/mgc_rve.skl