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--- the_metaarray [2022/02/25 05:12] – [Executables and Packages] hc9
+++ the_metaarray [2023/01/26 00:14] – formatting simple personal server hosting peteyboy
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 ===== Executables and Packages =====
-Packages on the MetaArray are managed with **pkgsrc** and **yum**. Nearly any program or package can be installed by making a request on the regular nodes of the SDF cluster via the '//bboard//' REQUESTS.
+Packages on the MetaArray are managed with **pkgsrc** and **dpkg/apt-get**. Nearly any program or package can be installed by making a request on the regular nodes of the SDF cluster via the '//bboard//' REQUESTS.
 The package directory structure is as follows:
-|  *  | /bin, /usr/bin | (yum repo destination directories) |
+|  *  | /bin, /usr/bin | (apt-get repo destination directories) |
 |  *  | /usr/pkg/bin | (pkgsrc destination directories) |
 |  *  | /usr/local/bin | (MetaArray specific utilities) |
+|  *  | /meta/sdf/bin | (compiled binaries installed by MetaARPA members) |
 ===== Services and features =====
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 To get this script to behave properly on the MetaArray, change the first line to ''#!/usr/bin/env python3.9'', and rename the file as ''my_powerful.cgi'' .
+===== Simple Personal Server Hosting =====
+ META users can run simple servers using the port that matches their user id. You may run a simple server process on the metaarray as long as it does not circumvent a membership and is a small server "of reasonable or less foot-print". Find more detail and instructions in [[Meta Port Allocation]]
 ===== SDF Nextcloud =====