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- | ====== First Year Accounts ====== | ||
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- | Students in first year do not get an EECS account. | ||
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- | The user account does not have access to printing or e-mail. | ||
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- | ====== Submit ====== | ||
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- | Students with EECS accounts can use either command line submit, or web submit. | ||
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- | ====== Home Directory ====== | ||
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- | The home directory for user " | ||
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- | ====== Labtest ====== | ||
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- | First year courses use labtest. | ||
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- | * Changed files are **not** synced to / | ||
- | * The " | ||
- | * If users switch machines during labtest, you or your TAs will be unable to transfer their files between machines. | ||
- | * Any power failure during labtest will result in all the home directories being reset after the power failure. | ||
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- | ====== Backups ====== | ||
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- | Each time the user logs out, files that the user has changed that are greater than 1 byte and less than or equal to 25 MB are archived into / | ||
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- | If you are in group " | ||
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- | To list the archives, simply do an " | ||
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- | ====== Crash Recovery ====== | ||
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- | From time to time, the GUI seems to crash. | ||
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- | - Hit Ctrl-ALT-F2 to switch to a text console. | ||
- | - Login with your EECS account. | ||
- | - Type the command: restoreuser | ||
- | - The system will restart the display manager. | ||
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- | ====== When Crash Recovery Fails ====== | ||
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- | When the basic procedure above fails, and a system reboot is necessary, Faculty, lab technicians, | ||
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- | - Reboot the system. | ||
- | - Log back in as user " | ||
- | - Open a terminal window by right-clicking on the desktop, and choosing "Open Terminal" | ||
- | - Login to your personal EECS account:< | ||
- | % su gayan | ||
- | Password: ******* | ||
- | </ | ||
- | - Ask the system to list backups available:< | ||
- | % restoreuser list | ||
- | </ | ||
- | - Backups are sorted in the following format: MMDDYYYY-HHMMSS. | ||
- | - Restore a backup into the user home directory using the " | ||
- | % restoreuser 09252019-144406 | ||
- | </ | ||
- | - The directory will get restored to / | ||
- | - Exit your account:< | ||
- | % exit | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | The user can continue working. | ||
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- | You can restore multiple directories if necessary with the " | ||
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- | ====== Accessing User Backups Remotely ====== | ||
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- | Faculty can SSH to lab workstations, | ||
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