[MITgcm-support] Re: Problems with MITgcm server

[Stefano Querin]

Thanks everybody,
I will also check if some firewall/filter has been applied on our cluster.
In the meantime I will download the .tar file.
Regarding the hotdig search engine, for the moment I will follow your 
suggestion and use Google.
Thank you again!
Bye,
Stefano


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Hill" <ed at eh3.com>
To: "Stefano Querin" <squerin at ogs.trieste.it>
Cc: "MITgcm-support" <mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with MITgcm server


> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:13 +0200, Stefano Querin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm encountering some problems with the MITgcm server both in
>> downloading the code with cvs and in using the MITgcm search engine.
>> When I connect to the cvs server the connection fails (connection time
>> out). When I use the search engine I get a "500 Internal Server Error"
>> warning.
>> Is there any problems with the server or am I doing something wrong?
>> Should I submit this e-mail to the mitgcm.support list?
>> Thank you very much.
>
> Hi Stefano,
>
> Thank you for writing.  And I'm forwarding this to the support list
> since others have asked similar questions.
>
> Our web site, particularly some parts of the documentation and the
> htdig-based search tool, are a bit out-of-date and need fixing.  Its on
> our "to-do" list for this summer so we'll be working on it soon.  In the
> mean time, please do the following:
>
> 1) Please use Google or Yahoo or another engine to search our
>    web site.  The search syntax you'll want to use is:
>
>      site:mitgcm.org YOUR_SEARCH_TERMS
>
>
> 2) CVS pserver is working correctly for me.  I just tested
>    it (with pserver, ext, and the web-interface) and its fine.
>    Please send the exact CVS error messages that you're seeing
>    and I'll help you figure out whats wrong.
>
>    And, as a quick fix, you can always get the latest snapshot
>    of the code and some recent checkpoints as tar files at:
>
>      http://mitgcm.org/download/
>      http://mitgcm.org/download/daily_snapshot/
>
> Ed
>
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