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See this section in the Intro Unix wiki: AboutUnix/Linux 35061890

The fundamental philosophy of Unix/Linux is to provide many small tools and utilities that can easily interact with each other using their built-in Input and Output streams.

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  • gsafcomp01.ccbb.utexas.edu – odd number studentNN accounts
  • gsafcomp02.ccbb.utexas.edu – even number studentNN accounts


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titleUT VPN

If you For those associated with UT Austin and are not on the UT campus network, you'll need to have the UT VPN service active in order to connect to these servers via SSH. See How to Connect to the UT VPN

Folks not associated with UT Austin, or do not have the UT VPN service installed, can use an alternate web-based method, described below.

Logging in via SSH

You can access the servers using ssh in a Terminal program that runs on your computer. On Macs, this program is called Terminal. On Windows (Windows 10 or later) it is called Command Prompt or PowerShell. Find and open this program now on your computer.

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ssh is an executable program that runs on your local computer and allows you to connect securely to a remote computer. We're going to use ssh to access one of the above compute servers on the GSAF pod:

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# From the UT campus network, or if you have the UT VPN active:
ssh student02@gsafcomp02.ccbb.utexas.edu
  • Answer yes to the SSH security question prompt
    • this will only be asked the 1st time you login
  • Enter the class password at the password prompt, then press Enter.
    • for security reasons, the text that you enter will not be displayed

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titleLogging in with PuTTY


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export LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:'di=1;34:fi=01:ln=01;36:'

If you're using PuTTY as your Terminal from Windows:

  • Double-click the Putty icon
  • In the PuTTY Configuration window
    • make sure the Connection type is SSH
    • enter gsafcomp01.ccbb.utexas.edu for Host Name (or gsafcomp02.ccbb.utexas.edu)
      • Optional: to save this configuration for further use:
        • Enter gsafcomp into the Saved Sessions text box, then click Save
        • Next time select gsafcomp from the Saved Sessions list and click Load.
    • click Open button
    • answer Yes to the SSH security question
  • In the PuTTY Terminal
    • enter your student account name after the "login as:" prompt, then Enter
    • enter the password associated with our student accounts
      • for security reasons, the text that you enter will not be displayed


Tip

If your Terminal has a dark background, the default shell colors can be hard to read. Execute this line to display directory names in yellow.

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export LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:'di=01;33:'

We'll see later how to set this environment variable in your login script (~/.profile) so that it gets executed every time you login to this server.

For now, just copy the appropriate line above, paste it into your Terminal window (after logging on), then press Enter.

Logging in via RStudio web

If you're attending remotely and or do not have access to the UT VPN, you can use the Terminal functionality in the RStudio web application.

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To access the Terminal built into RStudio Server.

You should now see a command line in the RStudio type-in area.

If your Terminal has a dark background, the default shell colors can be hard to read. Execute this line to display directory names in yellow.

export LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:'di=1;33:fi=01:ln=01;36'
Tip
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In the RStudio Terminal

, yellow is

if the default color for directories

, which can be

is difficult to see against its white background

. Execute

, execute this line to display directory names in blue.

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export LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:'di=101;34:fi=01:ln=01;36:'
You can use nano
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We'll see later how to set this environment variable in your login script (~/.profile to edit your login script so this ) so that it gets executed every time you login to this server.

But for For now, just copy the appropriate line above, paste it into your Terminal window (after logging on), then press Enter.

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