CPS710 System Information for the Moons Servers

CPS710	System Information for the Moons Servers

This course uses the computer facilities provided by the Department of Computer Science. Since you are registered in CPS710, our system administrators will create an account for you that will allow you to work in the Computer Science labs and also use the department's UNIX systems, called the "moons", no matter which program you are registered in.

The Department of Computer Science provides information about the computer science computer facilities and accounts in two places:

Information on CS servers describing how to connect to the CS servers in the labs and remotely. Please start with the README.FIRST file.
The archived User Guide to DCS Facilities

Your CS moons account userid is your short userid that you can obtain from D2L. It is at most 8 characters long. It can be used to log into the CS lab computers and also remotely into the moons UNIX systems.

When you first receive this userid, login into one of the PCs in your lab and change your password
Later in the course you will need to login to one of the unix servers to work on your assignments and submit them. Unless you are planning to do all your work for this course in the Computer Science labs, you will need to install an SSH Client program on your computer to do this. I personally like MobaXterm The name of the server you will want to use is moon.cs.torontomu.ca
The first thing you will want to do once you login to moon is to forward your cs email to your torontomu.ca email acount. To do this type the following line:
echo youremailaddress >.forward
where youremailaddress is the address that you want to forward your email to.
Then, before you actually need to submit your assignment, you should spend some time learning how to upload files and submit them. You can ask one of your computer science classmates, or the TA during one of the labs, or the course instructor during an office hour to show you how to do that. Just to summarize, though:
1. The files are uploaded using the File Transfer Window
2. The files are submitted using the Terminal Window:
  1. Go to the directory where you have uploaded the files using the cd command:
```
cd directory-path
```
  2. Submit your file
```
submit-cps710 filename
```
This page is maintained by Sophie Quigley (cps710@cs.torontomu.ca)
Last modified Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 17:44:13 EDT