Frequently asked questions

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How do I get/keep URL redirection from www.cs.rutgers.edu?
How can I request a guest account (NetID) without involving administrative staff?
Who can I email if I'm having a problem? (Update)
I just accidentally delete some files I need. How do I get them back? (Requesting a file restore)

What happened with the email transition of August 1, 2006?
How do I redirect ("bounce") mail using Thunderbird?
How come I cannot send email through LCSR's mail servers from some places within Rutgers?
How can I set up email aliases @rutgers.edu?
I've heard we should not use pine in our default configuration if we also use Netscape or Internet Explorer to read mail. How can I configure pine to use IMAP?
How do I configure my home PC to read mail through Rutgers when connected through my own ISP now that Rutgers is no longer acting as a mail relay for sites outside of Rutgers?
What's wrong with chain letters?
Spam/virus related
- What is our method of dealing with spam within DCIS?
- How do I route email tagged as spam into a different file? (And how do I read that different file using emacs rmail?)
- What kind of antivirus mail filtering is going on on dragon?
emacs related
- I was reading my mail when it disappeared, but I was still in emacs. What happened? (Or what does the "b" command in emacs RMAIL do?)
- How can I lose mail by having two copies of emacs rmail running simultaneously?
- How do I deal with "max buffer size exceeded" when reading mail with emacs?
- How can I reduce the size of my RMAIL file?
- I use emacs rmail to read my mail, and recently I keep seeing the same message(s) and/or am having trouble saving my RMAIL file. What's wrong?

How can I mount my home directory on a Linux machine I administer myself?
What is the recommended setup for using purify?
How do I use Sun Grid Engine installed on the IBM Linux machines in the research cluster?
How can I mount my unix directory from my Windows 2000 machine?
What versions of java are available on our Suns and how do I choose which to run?
What things should I look out for if my home directory was just moved?
How do I set the default group files have when they are created?
What's the best way to set up my path environment variable?

How do unix file and directory protections work?
How can I password protect web pages?
How can I prevent local read access to a directory of password protect web pages maintained by a group on a general user machine?
What is the relationship between swap and /tmp on standard faculty desktop Solaris machines?
How does the Domain Name System work?
How do I print print singlesided under Solaris?
How do I use floppies under Solaris?
How can I broadcast a message to a group of machines?
How can I share a directory of files with others?
How do I set up an anonymous ftp directory?

How do I use SSH's public key authentication on research.rutgers.edu and the rest of the DCS research cluster? And why did we go to such a scheme?
What kind of support for TeX/laTeX is available?
How can I improve image quality under distill?
How do I produce DCIS letterhead with LaTeX?
What is the best way to publish latex documents on the web?
Where is the SICStus Prolog User's Manual? Quintus Prolog?
How do I get started with PGP?

This page last updated October 20, 2016.