This page contains links to information of more-or-less general interest to users of CIS Unix machines at UNH. Disclaimer: this information was accumulated over a period of time, and some things reported as facts have (um…) ceased to be completely accurate. Please let us know of any inaccurate information via e-mail to pas@unh.edu
CIS Unix Information and Policies
- Home Page (announcements and useful links).
- System Overview
- Frequently-Asked Questions (with answers included at no extra charge).
- Acceptable Use policy.
- Privacy policy.
- Account policies: who is eligible for an account, how and when accounts are terminated, and what happens to inactive accounts
- Getting started with CIS Unix: discovering your username, changing your password.
- Information on disk quotas.
- How to (and why you need to) choose a good password.
- Notes on CIS Unix accounts at the end of semester.
- What you can do to save your CIS Unix account information if you're leaving UNH.
- Further information about CIS Unix local documentation: acknowledgements and typographical conventions.
- General information about CIS Unix E-mail: access via web browser, by e-mail software running on your own computer, or running the Alpine mail program on the CIS Unix systems themselves. Also discussed are quota issues and e-mail aliases.
- CIS Unix WebMail documentation:
- General Tips: pointers to both frequently- and infrequently-asked questions.
- How to set up an auto-reply.
- How to maintain a blacklist.
- How to set up, change, or remove e-mail forwarding.
- How to set up spam filtering.
- Information on using mail client software.
- More information on the Alpine mail software.
- How to set up a campus-wide E-mail alias.
- How to set up a mailing list.
- The Unwanted Mail FAQ.
- Information on the CIS Unix Virus Filtering service.
- Information on SpamAssassin-based spam filtering.
- Information on reverse DNS requirements for mail servers attempting to send mail to UNH (and UNH-hosted) mail addresses.
- How to set up a SpamAssassin-based spam filter in Eudora 5.2.
Internet-Related Information
- Help with the lynx WWW browser.
- Introduction to Usenet News and the slrn Newsreader.
- Information on the pubpages web server, on which CIS Unix users can set up their own web presence.
General System Topics
- How to establish a login (aka "terminal" or "shell") session to your CIS Unix account.
- How to print text, PostScript, and PDF files.
- How to share the information in your files with other users, both here at UNH and elsewhere.
- How to access your CIS Unix directory from your own computer using Samba.
- How to access your CIS Unix directory from your own computer using SFTP or FTP.
- What to do when you're out of disk space. Shell users might want to read this too.
Other Neat Things
- How to use the snap_restore program to restore deleted files.
- Course account guidelines for instructors whose courses require use of the CIS Unix machines by their students.
- Storing files in the /tmp and /var/tmp scratch areas on the Unix systems.
- Information on the CIS Unix File Scanning Service.
Page Maintenance: Paul A. Sand <pas@unh.edu> Last modified: 2012-05-09 12:30 PM EDT
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