From an X-terminal: You will be presented with a logon prompt. Enter your user id followed by the [enter] key. This is the id you were given by the math department--not OSU. Then enter your password--again the one given to you by the math department for the computer called papa. Your password is case sensitive.
From a PC: You may do this in many ways. The most common is to use a program called telnet. Run this program--it will be in the windows subdirectory of the harddrive. It may also have a shortcut on the desktop or in the program menu. After you have this program up, use the file or connect menu to connect to a host. You should then connect to papa.
Since we moved the boot server for the X-terminals some of the terminals have had some trouble allowing log ins. If your x-terminal comes up to a window that says something about looking for an XDM host with the 139.78.112.1 IP number this is what you need to do:
To log out you must first close all running applications. That is close all windows. Then select exit window manager to quit your window manager. Then use the setup key on the X-terminal. Pick log out from the menu.
If you do not logout correctly then you may leave your account open. Then people can read your mail and play with your files.
Emacs is the editor that God used to write the source code for the universe. Use it. Love it. Live it.
We also have "vi", and the xview tools for X-window.... Use Emacs.
<user id>@mail.math.okstate.edu or <user id>@math.okstate.edu. Your mail may get to you faster if you use the mail address.
Here the <user id> is what your user name--what you type to login.
UNIX provides all sorts of help. First there is the "man" command. Just type "man <command>" and you get lots of help on the "command". We also have "info" and some web based help(Like what you are reading).
You can also check the Learning to Use Unix page.
From a UNIX prompt type passwd. This will change your password on papa only.
When you type passwd, you will first be prompted for your old password. This is to keep someone from walking up to your log in while you are away and changing your password. Then you type in your new password. Then type it in again to make sure you did it correctly the first time.
Do not
Login to papa.math.okstate.edu. At the prompt enter pine to start Pine. As pine connects to the mail server to retreive your mail you'll see a line at the bottom of the Pine Main Menu screen that says:
HOST: mail.math.okstate.edu ENTER LOGING NAME: followed by your login name. Hit enter to verify that this is your login name. You'll then see ENTER PASSWORD:. Enter your mail password
Pine is a menu driven program. You can figure it out from there.
Pine is actually a rather capable program.
type "cd" to get to the root of your home directory. Then type "du -k". The last number printed is the total disk usage in your home directory.
You type "quota_query <user id>" at the shell prompt. The "<user id>" is the user id that you want to know about.
Login to that machine and enter pine. While you are reading the message in pine, hit "E". Then enter a name. If you use a machine other than papa, you will need to go into the Setup menu and change the mail server to mail.math.okstate.edu
Use your favorite editor to create a text file ".forward" containing the full address (e.g, htruman@mtsainthelen.heaven.org) of the account to which you want mail sent. Place this file in your home directory on mail.math.okstate.edu (for example, by FTP-ing it there).
Someone has sent you an e-mail file that has an file attachment and you want to save this file. Make sure you are in Pine and that message is currently open. Type V to view the attachments. Scroll down do the file you want is the one highlighted. Click on S to save the file and then enter a file name. This will save the file to your main directory under the file name you entered. After it's been saved, type E to exit the viewer and this should return you to the original mail file.
Type "lp <file name>".
Type "acroread <file name>".
Usually you can type "lp <file name>". You may also use "postprint" to format the file into postscript first. Read the man page.
Use "hpprint". Read the man page. This is a home grown program. You may also use
"tp <file name>". This is a simplified version of hpprint.
If you are using an X-terminal and have no window manager running, type "fvwm" or "olwm". This will start up a window manager for you.
All scripts that to do this are located in /local/bin/. Once your path is set you should be able to simply enter the name of the script you want to run. If you get a message saying the script isn't found try adding /local/bin/ in front of the script name.
If you have a new account and want to setup all the basic condfiguration files enter /local/bin/setup_account.
If you want to update your fvwm configuration enter setup_wm. This script allows you to chose between standard and large font configuration.
If you want to update all your X-windows configuration files: .Xdefaults, .Xclients, and .fvwm2rc enter setup_x.
If you want to update only your X client programs use setup_xclients
Ok, you have a whole lot of stuff in a directory, and you'd like to move all of it to another machine. First, go one directory above what you want to move. Then:
tar cvf nameoffile.tar directorynameFor example, to tar a WWW directory as WWW.tar, type in: tar cvf WWW.tar WWW
Then zip this file: gzip nameoffile.tarThis will create a new file called nameoffile.tar.gz. Now you can ftp this or copy it to another directory.
To UNDO the zipping and tarring:
gunzip nameoffile.tar.gz tar xvf nameoffile.tarThis will unzip your file, and then untar it. It will leave all the directory structure exactly as you had it before you tarred it (unless something majorly went wrong).
Use netscape. We have netscape 3.03 and 4.04. I would rather that you use netscape 3.03 as it is less resource intensive. You just type "netscape" or select it from an X-window prompt.
Both Emacs and TeX create backup copies of whatever file you're working on. These don't get automatically removed when you save a new version of a file and can eat up alot of space. Try removing these files.
gzip any large files or directories that aren't accessed regularly. This compresses the files thereby reducing the amount of space they take up. The basic syntax for gzip is: gzip <filename>. Files that have been gzipped will have a .gz extension after the filename. For further info on using gzip see the man page.
First, you need to contact the sysadmin and let them know you want
a WWW page. You'll then get an account and home directory on the web
server. After this account has been setup, you can login to:
www.math.okstate.edu or minkowski.math.okstate.edu. You then need to
make the WWW directory readable and executable by everyone. You'll
also need your home directory executable by everyone. If you then make
an HTML file called index.html in the WWW directory, and make it
readable by everyone, then it'll show up when
http://www.math.okstate.edu/~<username> is
referenced.
So the steps might be as follows:
cd cd WWW chmod +rx WWW chmod +x . vi WWW/index.html <do whatever editing then save> chmod +r WWW/index.html
Once you're all set, you can mail to webmaster@math.okstate.edu and ask to have your home page put in the department list of home pages. Please use the form "request for home page link" to do this.
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This page was last updated January 7, 1999. Questions, suggestions, and general grumpings should be sent to webmaster@math.okstate.edu.