Frequently asked questions

Administration * Email * Environment * How to's * Info * Software

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How can I play sound on our Linux machines?

Administration

How do I get/keep URL redirection from www.cs.rutgers.edu?
How do I go about requesting Unix, LCSR domain, or email accounts on LCSR-CF maintained systems?
Who can I email if I'm having a problem?
I just accidentally delete some files I need. How do I get them back? (Requesting a file restore)

Email

What happened with the email transition of August 1, 2006?
How do I redirect ("bounce") mail using Thunderbird?
How come I cannot send email through LCSR's mail servers from some places within Rutgers?
How can I set up email aliases @rutgers.edu?
I've heard we should not use pine in our default configuration if we also use Netscape or Internet Explorer to read mail. How can I configure pine to use IMAP?
How do I configure my home PC to read mail through Rutgers when dialed up through my own ISP now that Rutgers is no longer acting as a mail relay for sites outside of Rutgers?
What's wrong with chain letters?
Spam/virus related
- What is our method of dealing with spam within DCIS?
- How do I route email tagged as spam into a different file? (And how do I read that different file using emacs rmail?)
- Someone is trying to send me email, but their message is being refused. What do I tell someone who is on a blacklisted email server?
- What kind of antivirus mail filtering is going on on dragon?
emacs related
- I was reading my mail when it disappeared, but I was still in emacs. What happened? (Or what does the "b" command in emacs RMAIL do?)
- How can I lose mail by having two copies of emacs rmail running simultaneously?
- How do I deal with "max buffer size exceeded" when reading mail with emacs?
- How can I reduce the size of my RMAIL file?
- I use emacs rmail to read my mail, and recently I keep seeing the same message(s) and/or am having trouble saving my RMAIL file. What's wrong?

Environment

Setup

What is the recommended setup for using purify?
How do I use Sun Grid Engine installed on the IBM Linux machines in the research cluster?
How can I mount my unix directory from my Windows 2000 machine?
What versions of java are available on our Suns and how do I choose which to run?
What things should I look out for if my home directory was just moved?
How do I set the default group files have when they are created?
What's the best way to set up my path environment variable?

Unix

How do unix file and directory protections work?
How can I password protect web pages?
How can I prevent local read access to a directory of password protect web pages maintained by a group on a general user machine?
What is the relationship between swap and /tmp on standard faculty desktop Solaris machines?
How does the Domain Name System work?
How do I print print singlesided under Solaris?
How do I use floppies under Solaris?
How can I broadcast a message to a group of machines?
How can I share a directory of files with others?
How do I set up an anonymous ftp directory?

What's happening?

What is the DCS research linux cluster?
What happened with some research cluster home directories on June 5, 2003?
What is the new NetApp fileserver?
What happened with the faculty cluster split?
What is happening with the DNS changes at Rutgers?

How to's

How can I merge several separate PDFs into one file?
How do I change my Unix password?
If I administer my own Linux box, how do I direct root's mail to myself?
My Linux box is wedged! What can I do to deal with emergencies with the Linux window server?
How do I use a jump drive (USB flash memory device) under Fedora Core 2 (Linux)?
How do I configure Mozilla to use acroread to read .pdf files?
How do I get soffice to work under both Solaris and Linux?
How do I use Rutgers' calendar system to make room reservations?
How can I make the DEL key behave the same under Linux as it did on a Sun?
How can I arrange for more disk space?
How do I use osterman (the new DCS plotter/printer)?
How can I change fonts under X?
How can I redirect a browser from one URL to another? (See this example.)
How can I remove the annoying Shop button from the new Netscape's navigator bar?
Is it possible to specify a user name in a URL (eg, as an alternative to "anonymous" in an ftp: URL)?
I just received a binhex'ed file. What can I do with it?
How can I change the default window size for Mosaic or netscape?
How do we go about setting up our own personal WWW pages on the DCS faculty machines?

Info

What can I do if my connections to Rutgers are continually refused?
What network performance data have we collected?
How do quotas work on the faculty cluster?
How do shared accounts work on the DCS faculty cluster? (What was the older way of sharing accounts?)
Where is the official place to find out about Rutgers dialup numbers? (We locally maintain a list of just DCIS dialups.)

Software

How do I use SSH's public key authentication on research.rutgers.edu and the rest of the DCS research cluster? And why did we go to such a scheme?
What kind of support for TeX/laTeX is available?
How can I improve image quality under distill?
How do I produce DCIS letterhead with LaTeX?
What is the best way to publish latex documents on the web?
Where is the SICStus Prolog User's Manual?
Where is the web documentation on Quintus Prolog?
How do I get started with PGP?

This page last updated December 10, 2007.

Frequently asked questions

New or recently updated

Administration

Email

Spam/virus related

emacs related

Environment

Setup

Unix

What's happening?

How to's

Info

Software

`emacs` related