Gateway

Using SSH

You can login to the Gateway directly with SSH:

ssh -X <user>@gateway.efda-itm.eu

-X is required if you want to run X applications over the connection.

Using SFTP

Use SFTP to transfer files to/from the Gateway:

sftp <user>@gateway.efda-itm.eu

If sftp fails with 'Connection closed', or you get an error message like 'Received message too long (or "Bad packet length") 1416586337', your shell startup script (eg ~/.cshrc, ~/.bashrc) on the Gateway system is writing to standard output and confusing it. This is a known problem with sftp. Note that .login is evidently not run when and sftp session is started; standard output from that does not upset it. The solution is to disable the output or wrap the offending script in a conditional statement so it is only executed if the shell is interactive. For example, with cshrc:

if ($?prompt) then
   <original contents>
endif

For more see faq1 and faq2 . Thanks to Francesco Iannone for this information.

Using NX

NX from NoMachine allows you to run a remote X11 login session on the Gateway from your local machine. To use it you must first download an NX client from NoMachine and install it locally. The default installation location for the NX executable is /usr/NX/bin/nxclient. When you run NX for the first time, after logging in with your assigned user name and password, and providing a session name, a configuration dialogue appears. Set the following values:

Host:    gateway.efda-itm.eu
Port:    22
Key:     default
Network: WAN
Desktop: Unix, KDE
Display: Available area

Do not disable encryption in the Advanced tab.

When this is done, the Gateway window manager should appear each time you run NX with the session name you provided.

Disk Quota

Users' home directories are in the Andrew File System. To check your disk quota do

fs listquota

Note that Kepler ITM workflow core dumps can be >1.6GB in size!!