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Class accounts are on the OIT (Office of Information Technology)
UNIX cluster systems.
They can be accesses via the campus network.
If you have a WAM account, you can login to
one of the WAM workstation and telnet to one of these machines.
Please obtain your user ID and password from the TA immediately
after the first day of class on 2/2/2000. These accounts expire on 5/27/2000.
Please read ethics policy about accout
usage carefully.
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First Time Login
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- Get your login ID and your password from the TA.
- Login to one of the Alpha machines.
- Type q to get out of news.
- Change your password. Type passwd, then follow the instructions.
- Type source .login to get back to reading news (using
readlocalnews).
You should read csc.news if there are unread articles (see below) about
scheduled maintenance, machine down time, and all sort of
important system related information.
You might want to read news.announce.newusers if you've never use
a news reader like this one.
- Hints on using readlocalnews:
- This news reader basically hasically 2 levels.
At the top level, you can select a USENET newsgroup.
At the next level, you can select an article in a newsgroup.
- Some commands at the top level:
- q : quit
- y : read this newsgroup by reading the first unread article
- n : go to the next newsgroup
- = : read this newsgroup by viewing
a list of unread articles
- u : unsubscribe from this newsgroup
- c : mark everything in this newsgroup as if
you've read them
- h : help
- g XYZ : subscribe to the XYZ newsgroup
- l XYZ : list unsubscribed newsgroup containing the
XYZ pattern
- Some commands at the next level:
- q : go back to the top level and
leave the current newsgroup
- n : go to the next article
- = : view a list of unread articles
- u : unsubscribe from this newsgroup
- c : mark everything in this newsgroup as if
you've read them
- h : help (at this level)
- NUM : read article number NUM where NUM is a numeric value
- /XYZ : go to the next article whose subject contains the
XYZ pattern
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