LCSRCF FAQ

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Table of Contents:

• Accounts and groups
  • Who qualifies for an account?
  • How do I create an account?
  • How long do I keep my account?
  • Can alumni get accounts?
  • How can I get and use a project group?
• Using your account
  • I forgot my password. What do I do?
  • How do I change my {finger info,password,shell}?
  • I changed my .login but nothing's different. What's wrong?
  • I want to use Exceed at home. How can I configure it to work on remus/romulus?
• Documentation
  • Where can I find documentation about... ?
  • Where can I find FAQs?
• Files, disks, and quota
  • How do I undelete a file?
  • How do I delete a file named ~foo?
  • How do I remove a file named -foo?
  • How do I play audio files?
  • What kind of file is...?
  • How do I compress files?
  • What are all the foo~ or foo.BAK files?
  • What are quotas?
  • What happens if I use up my 7.0 days for quota?
  • I'm under quota, but I get an error saving a file.
  • I'm over quota, but I can't figure out what to to delete; a du shows me under quota. What do I do?
  • I want to move a file to a Rutgers machine from my home machineWhatdoIdo?
• Running programs and the shell
  • How do I find processes?
  • What if I want to leave a process running for a long time?
• Compilers, running your own programs
  • Which compilers are available and how do I run them?
  • How can I set things up to run a specific version of java -- other than the default one?
  • I've compiled my program successfully, but I get "command not found" when I try and run it. What's going on?
  • The C compiler doesn't understand functions in the math library
  • The C compiler doesn't understand socket() and other network functions.
  • Why doesn't /usr/ucb/cc work under Solaris 2?
  • What is a "bus error"?
  • What is a "segmentation fault"?
• Printing
  • How can I print from gnuplot?
  • How can I print a LaTeX file?
  • How can I cancel a print job?
• The Web
  • I get "internal server error" when I run my cgi -- can't you please fix the server so I don't get this?
  • General CGI stuff
  • I want to move files between machines