UGCS 4.0 User Documentation
We are still in the process of creating full user documentation for UGCS 4.0. If you have questions on something that is not covered here, please contact a sysadmin. Here are the systems that we have some documentation written for:
Did you check the FAQ's?
Use of UGCS is subject to the UGCS Acceptable Use Policy
Quick Reference
- Login shell: ssh <username>@to.ugcs.caltech.edu
- New account: ssh newacct@to.ugcs.caltech.edu with the password found in https://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/caltechonly/newacct-pw.html
- IMAP: server mail.ugcs.caltech.edu, port 993 with SSL encryption
- POP: server mail.ugcs.caltech.edu, port 995, with SSL encryption
- SMTP: server mail.ugcs.caltech.edu, port 465, plain auth, with SSL encryption
- Webmail: Roundcube or Squirrelmail
Basic How-to's
- How to create an account
- How to use SSH
- How to use Kerberized "passwordless" SSH
- How to make a job posting
- How to ignore the job listings
Email Help
- How to set up mail forwarding
- Server settings for most email clients
- How to create a mailing list
- How to administer mailing lists from the command line
- Set Spamassassin settings with LDAP
- Email overview
Useful Programs
- All Cluster Utilities- these are programs that we have written that are specific to UGCS
- All Cluster software- Look here for help on common Unix software or other commercial software packages- Matlab, Mathematica, etc
- Ruptime/rwho- see loads on other machines
- mssh- run commands on multiple machines at once.
- Alpine/Pine- includes setup instructions for UGCS
Cluster Services
- Subversion
- Web hosting
- Mortals- Computers that you can monopolize with your cpu-intensive compute jobs.
