UNIX SUPPORT GROUP
The unix support group maintains the Sun Solaris unix client machines, unix servers, and unix peripherals (such as printers) used in the College by students, staff and faculty. We are also responsible for the College mailserver, webserver, backup server, anonymous ftp server, and cvs server. DNS services are now handled by the Network Operations Center noc@clemson.edu
Email unix-admin@ces.clemson.edu with your questions regarding the unix hardware and software. We have 1 public lab with unix machines:
The machine names are:
The machines can be remotely accessed from home by first using the SSH program to connect to access.ces.clemson.edu, and then using either the unix command ssh or rsh to connect to a unixlab machine to do your work.
The unix support group office and helpdesk is located in: Freeman 142
The unix support group office and helpdesk phone number is: 656-1230
UNIX Support Group Staff
The unix support group fulltime staff members are:
| dexter@ces.clemson.edu | 656-4474 | |
| duckwos@cs.clemson.edu | 656-5854 |
We also have 1 student administrator this semester.
When you have a question or problem, please remember to send email to unix-admin@ces.clemson.edu (or remember to CC unix-admin) rather than individual staff members. This will ensure that your issue is resolved in a timely fashion should one or more of the individuals be unavailable. Also include the name of the machine you are working on, the problem you are having and the exact text of the error message you are getting. If possible, include the sequence of commands you executed so we can try to duplicate the problem and figure out what is going wrong. We are not able to provide software programming support, you should contact your TA or Professor for coding help.
UNIX Accounts
Send email to unix-admin@ces.clemson.edu from your CLEMSON account email to request a unix account. Unix accounts are given to students, staff and faculty in the College of Engineering and Science (CES), and to students from other Colleges who are taking a class in the CES. Undergraduate students have a disk quota of 1 GB, graduate students have a disk quota of 2 GB, and staff and faculty have a disk quota of 4 GB. There is scratch storage space available under /scratch/machinename if you run out of space in your homedirectory. Note that files on the scratch spaces are not backed up. Student accounts remain active for 1 semester after graduation. If you wish to have your home directory burned to CD or DVD, please bring the media to the UNIX helpdesk in Freeman 144 and we will create your disk.
Public Domain Software
We will install any public domain software if it will compile and run on the Sun Solaris operating system and platform. Public domain software is installed under:
/usr/localEmail unix-admin@ces.clemson.edu with the URL of the public domain software package that you wish to have installed.
Commerical Software
Commercial software is installed under:
/usr/commercialIf you wish to have a particular package installed or have questions regarding the licensing of a package, please email Susan Reeves to find out the status of the package.
Personal Web Pages
The URL of your personal web page is:
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/~useridYou must create a directory in your home directory called "public_html" and set the permissions as follows:
% cd
% mkdir public_html
% chmod a+x .
% chmod a+x public_html
Place your html content in the public_html directory. Your
starting page filename should be "index.html". All files in your
public_html directory must be readable by everyone if you wish to
have them show up in a web browser:
% cd public_html
% chmod a+r *
If you have troubles with your web page, please email
webmaster@ces.clemson.edu
with your questions.
Department and Research Group Web Pages
Please email webmaster@ces.clemson.edu for help in setting up a department web page or a research group web page.
DNS
If you need a static ip address, please email noc@clemson.edu with the following information:
Not all requests for static ip addresses are granted since we rely mostly on DHCP to assign ip addresses.
This page is maintained by Scott Duckworth and Dexter F. Stowers and was last updated December 19, 2007.