NEW BRUNSWICK COMPUTING SERVICES
USER SERVICES GROUP

Getting Started With The UNIX Operating System
Exercise 1

Getting Started

After completing this practice, you will be able to log into a UNIX system and prepare your eden or rci account for use in this tutorial.

  1. Find the ssh program on your computer (usually SSH or PuTTY) 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, enter your NetID (your rci or eden username).

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

  4. The login screen may contain important system notices that should be read for important announcements. Please note the topics (if there are any) below.

    Take a few moments to review the announcements, if there are some you have not already read please go to the appropriate web page of the following:

    www.eden.rutgers.edu
    www.rci.rutgers.edu

    to read the details in the announcements.

  5. If you have a menuing system when you login ask for help disabling them for this tutorial.
    1. 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.

      If you are on eden.rutgers.edu, 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. On both eden and rci, this command also will create files and directories (explained in a later chapter) for use in this tutorial.


    2. 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. The files and exercises in this class have been optimized for eden and rci, they may not work as expected on other systems

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

After attempting the above look here for answers

End of Practice 1 - Getting Started