----------------------------------------------------- Week 1 Notes for CST8129 - Ian Allen - idallen@ncf.ca ----------------------------------------------------- Remember - knowing how to find out an answer is more important than memorizing the answer. Learn to fish! RTFM! (Read The Fine Manual) In the Linux lab (T127) during Week 1 we did these things: 1. Login to the lab workstation: Login - abcd001 (your userid) Password - just2day (change immedately using the yppasswd command) 2. Find my course web page - the CST8129 one with my picture on it - http://idallen.com/teaching/cst8129/01f/ - bookmark this! 3. Find the course announcements news group - read the announcements! - homework and assignments will be posted here 4. Post and cancel a news article in the algonquinc.test news group - find the news group in the table under the News&Discussion button - make sure you post and cancel in the *test* news group only 5. Find ott.forsale.computing - select the news server news.idallen.com and use "Subscribe" 6. Find news server passwd - read the pages under News&Discussion until you find the password - you need this to post/cancel a news article from off-campus 7. Login to acadunix using telnet and find your disk quota Login - abcd001 (your userid) Password - your PIN number (change it with the passwd command) Questions and Answers from the lab: Why doesn't backspace always work on ACADUNIX? - explain about different terminal types - MS can control entire environment - many terminal manufacturers - command: stty erase ^? - command: stty erase ^H Why don't the cursor keys work on ACADUNIX? - different shells interpret keys differently - AIX uses the Korn shell, not BASH - review which shells we use in this course - quick demo of syntax of CSH vs SH How do you get information on the quota command (or any command)? - DOS uses a slash question mark - C:\> dir/? - Unix uses the "man" command - man man