Logging in to mintaka

Use putty.  If you can't find it, download it.  It should be on our machines.

Host name is mintaka.lynchburg.edu; connection type is SSH.  If there's a saved session below named mintaka, load it and use it -- less typing.

Your user name is the same as for your LC email.  Your password will be given to you.

The first time you'll get a lengthy warning:

The server's host key is not cached in the registry . . . Store key in cache? (y/n)

Say y. 

Using the Unix operating system

There's a little here.  You won't need much.  You should be able to change directories (cd), list files in a directory (ls), remove files (rm), move (rename) files (mv), and a few oth4r things I'll tell you as needed.

Transferring files to mintaka

Use psftp.  If you can't find it, download it.  It should be on our machines.

Log in as you would using putty.  Important commands are

• cd -- change directory on mintaka
• lcd -- change directory on your PC
• ls -- list directory on mintaka
• put, get -- send/receive a file
• mput, mget -- send/receive multiple files.  For example, mput * should send everything in your local folder.
• ! <command> -- execute a command on your PC.
• help -- get a list of commands

Getting your web site working on mintaka

Create a folder in your home directory, thus: 

mkdir public_html

To make it viewable, make it and your home folder viewable.  Here's how:

chmod 755 .
chmod 755 public_html

This means that everything in your home folder and in public_html is fully viewable to (but not changeable by), well, everyone.

To keep part of your Unix account private (that is, if you're using it for something else), you can make folders like so:

mkdir someFolder
chmod 700 someFolder

and put your private files in those folders.

If you're curious about chmod's bizarre syntax, check this out.