Using the Stanford Unix Systems

Under construction!

Kerberos

Kerberos is used on the Leland systems. After a session is logged in for 24 hours or so, writes stop working. To refresh Kerberos, type kinit -t and enter your password when prompted.

That Annoying Login Problem

You may see a problem when logging in remotely through Samson, where the login seems to hang. The following is worth a try:

bang on carriage return a few times

Password:

kstart: Password incorrect

mailcheck: no valid ticket found. Please run kinit first.

> kinit -t

Stanford University (Leland) (systemname.Stanford.EDU)

Password for user@stanford.edu:

> source .cshrc

systemname:~> source .login

systemname:~>

Various Useful Commands

lelandquota

Useful for finding out how much disk and print quota you have remaining.

sweetload

Useful for locating a lightly loaded Sweet Hall machine.

sweetfinger some-leland-id

Allows you to determine which Sweet Hall machine(s) a person is logged into, assuming you know their Leland ID.

Names of Stanford Servers

elaines, epics, myths, sagas

The amys are HP-UX machines.

Home Directories for Classes

Example: /usr/class/cs244a

Useful Web Browser

Lynx is a character-based web browser. This is useful when you need to access a Stanford-domain restricted web site from outside the domain. For instance,

lynx http://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/lookup

allows you to access the internal lookup page through an ssh connection.

Tolerable News Reader

rn is a Unix news reader, much less friendly than the Netscape news reader. However, it can be used to read Stanford-domain-only news groups. As an example,

rn su.class.cs106a

allows you to read the CS106a class news group over an ssh connection