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=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 @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

All Email how-to's

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.

Infrastructure

 * Virtual Domain Hosting
 * AFS
 * Printing
 * Certificate Authority