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COMPUTING FACILITIES FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

This is a source of repository of information for setting up and utilizing your computer science account. Following is a list of questions and solutions.

Unix Account

How can I get my CS unix account and reset my password?
Please refer to Instructions for Students setting up the Unix Account.

E-mail

How can I forward my e-mail to another account?
At the top of your home directory create a file called ".forward". Inside of ".forward" insert the address you want your e-mail forwarded, for instance "myMainAddress@another.mailserver.org". Your e-mail will be automatically forwarded by the departmental mail server.
How can I set up my departmental e-mail account under Netscape Messenger/Microsoft Explorer/etc?
Add the IMAP server mail.cs.ttu.edu. Your username is the same as your unix login name. Your e-mail address should be already set, but if it is changed, you can switch it back to "username@cs.ttu.edu". Your outgoing mail server is "mail.cs.ttu.edu" as well.
That's too complicated, why don't we get webmail?
We have it. Visit http://mail.cs.ttu.edu/ for your webmail account.

Webpages

How can I create a webpage that people can view?
Webpages are stored in your home directory under "public_html". Put all webfiles in that directory and the webserver automatically looks for index.html or index.php as defaults if your file permissions are correctly assigned.
I've created a new page, but I get a permission denied error when I view it. Why?
All users, groups and others should be able to e"x"ecute your home directory and e"x"ecute and "r"ead your public_html directory. Additionally all files under public_html should be "r"eadable by users, groups and others. Specific unix commands are "chmod 711 ~yourUsername", "chmod 755 ~yourUsername/public_html" and "chmod -R 744 ~yourUsername/public_html/*".

General

How do I print a "man" page?
If you have a postscript printer, you can use the following command: 
man -t < page > | lpr
This way you get nice formated output with bold and italic characters.
Where is Visual C++ on the Unix machines?
Umm, there is no such thing. However there is an excellent set of programming tools that have been developed under Unix. Some of these are made available by gnu. These include the compilers gcc and g++, the debuggers gdb and xxgdb, as well as a version of emacs, everything an editor could be and more. For those of you who like buttons, XEmacs is available on all Unix platforms as well. In addition, there are platform specific tools with compilers designed by the hardware company like Sun Workshop on Sun or SGI ProWorkshop.