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Linux Server – Zeus .vwc.edu

• Domain name: zeus.vwc.edu and it is developed for Computer Science Program
• VWC Internal IP address: 172.16.15.8
• External IP: 216.54.22.170
• OS: Red hat Linux 9.0
• Hardware Settings: Pentium 4. Main Memory 512 MB, Virtual Memory 1.2 GB. Hard disk 80x2 GB
• Compilers: C/C++ (gcc/g++), Free-Pascal (fpc), Ada (gnatmake), Fortran (f77), clips (clips), 80386 Assembler (as86), Java (javac)
• Account:  You should have an account of the server to login. Ask Dr. John Wang to issue an account for you. You will get a login name and a password to let you login. After you login to the server, you may change the password by typing the command: passwd
• Security Note: Please download and install SSH (security shell) programs (click http://zeus.vwc.edu/~zwang/ssh, or here)
• Basic Usages (for more details of UNIX commands, click here): case sensitive - - all the commands are lower case letters
  • ls  list files and sub-directory in the present (working) directory
  • cd ..  change working directory to parent directory
  • cd  change working directory to home directory (/home/log-name)
  • pwd  show (print) the working directory
  • mkdir  dir-name  build a new directory named dir-name in working directory
  • rm file_name remove a file named file_name
  • rmdir  dir-name  remove a empty directory named dir-name
  • cd dir-name  change working directory to sub-directory named dir-name
  • pico file_name  edit a file
  • cat file_name  view contents of the file
  • passwd  change your pass word
  • w or who or finger  show the users who are on the server
  • man cmd  show the usage of the command cmd
  • man –k keyword  show related commands about the keyword
  • talk another-log-name  communicate (talk) to another person who are in the server by typing words (if he responses by using talk program)
  • write another-log-name  write to another person who are in the server by typing words.
  • Ctrl-d or exit  exit the server