[Sciserver-users] SciServer new user questions

[Tom Dwelly]

Hi Jonas

I have a few questions about using the MPE SciServer system. I am sending this to the list in case any of these issues 
have been encountered by other users.
Apologies for where I have got the SciServer nomenclature wrong.


1) Is it possible to ssh from an external machine into a container session running on SciServer compute?

2) Is there any way for a user to set up persistent settings (e.g. .bashrc file, ssh settings etc) that are sourced/used 
by new terminal sessions within any compute container?

3) Is it possible for users to install standard linux packages (e.g. via apt) within a container session?

3a) if not, please can you add emacs to the default list of installed packages in the standard SciServer compute image?


4) Any idea why 'git clone' operations like the following are failing within a compute container?

idies at b1715cc0395c:~/workspace/Storage/TomDwelly/persistent/gitwork$ git clone 
https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/tdwelly/helper-scripts.git
Cloning into 'helper-scripts'...
Username for 'https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de': tdwelly
Password for 'https://tdwelly@gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de':
remote: Enumerating objects: 347, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (347/347), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (271/271), done.
fatal: write error: Bad file descriptor
fatal: index-pack failed

I have seen similar results when attempting to clone another of my other git repos. Various StackExchange suggestions to 
turn off compression and increase the windowMemory have not helped.


Thanks,

Tom