Setting up for UNIX Operating System Classes

  1. Find the ssh program on your computer and start it. Exactly what you do depends upon the computer you have and what is installed on it. For an eden account session open a session to eden.rutgers.edu. For an rci account session open a session on rci.rutgers.edu.

  2. At the login: prompt (or username field), enter your NetID (your rci or eden username).

  3. At the password: prompt, enter your rci or eden password.

  4. The login screen often contains important system notices that should be read for important announcements.
  5. If you have a menuing system when you login, ask for help disabling them for this tutorial.
    1. If you have previously issued the following command to set up your account for this class, please skip to down to step 7.
      Otherwise, if you are on eden.rutgers.edu or rci.rutgers.edu, at the system prompt issue the command:

      ~koft/classprep

      to set up your account for this tutorial.

      You will be prompted to type the key you wish to use as your delete key. Please type either the "Backspace" or "Del" key, followed by the "Return" key. This command also will create files and directories (explained in a later chapter) for use in this tutorial.

      If you are not on eden.rutgers.edu or rci.rutgers.edu, issue the two commands:

      wget http://nbcs.rutgers.edu/~edseries/class.tar
      tar xf class.tar

      to get the files needed for this class.

    2. If you previously issued the above command and restored your previous personal settings issue the following commands, otherwise please wait.

      On rci type:

      mv .login .login.OLD ; mv .login.class .login
      mv .cshrc .cshrc.OLD ; mv .cshrc.class .cshrc

      On eden type:

      mv .login.local .login.local.OLD ; mv .login.local.class .login.local
      mv .cshrc .cshrc.OLD ; mv .cshrc.class .cshrc

  7. Logout and back in to have the standard environment for this session.

End of set up