Web Content & Applications

The OIT website has a new look and new functionality thanks to changes to the menu. Now when you navigate through the site you will notice there is no longer a menu on the right side of pages. This change allows the page content to be wider and the pages more visually clean. There are also arrows above the left-side menu that make it possible to move between levels of the selected website section. And the breadcrumbs—your navigation trail through the website—are now dynamic. When you hover over a breadcrumb the menu changes to the submenu from the highlighted page.

OIT is expanding its reach to the campus community through several new social media channels, including Facebook, Google+, Twitter and YouTube. OIT Communications has launched this effort in alignment with CU-Boulder’s broader social media efforts led by University Communications, to ensure all social media communications are coordinated and complementary.

Social Media Goals

CUConnect (cuconnect.colorado.edu), the original CU-Boulder campus portal, will be retired on May 14. As of the end of March, the last of the critical functionality in CUConnect has been transferred to the new campus portal, MyCUInfo (mycuinfo.colorado.edu).

The IT Security Office is implementing in phases a new security measure which will help protect the campus from websites that are known to contain malware and transmit data back to a hacker. On Tuesday, October 4, wireless web traffic from subnets that serve the East Campus will start routing through the new WSA (web security appliances) service. Then on Thursday, October 6, wireless traffic from the rest of campus will start routing through the WSA service. When the service is implemented at approximately 5:30 a.m.

Window motions

<CTRL>d -- Scroll down (half a screen)
<CTRL> -- Scroll up (half a screen)
<CTRL>f -- Page forward
<CTRL>b -- Page backward
/string -- Search forward
?string -- Search backward
n -- Repeat search
N -- Repeat search reverse
G -- Go to last line
nG -- Go to line n :n -- Go to line n
<CTRL>l -- Redraw screen
<CTRL>g -- File information

pico

Pico is the editor that pine uses by default to compose messages. If you use pine, you will find pico very easy to use. Even if you do not use pine, pico is a very simple screen editor to learn. The commands are always listed at the bottom of the screen. If you lack experience with editors, this is probably the one for you.

To view the online manual pages for this edtor, type man pico at the prompt:

The lpr Command

The first thing to know is the lpr command. The basic syntax to print any file on any printing resource is

spot> lpr -P resource-name file-name

where resource-name is the name of the printing resource (ie, printer) and file-name is the name of the file to be printed. Unix print jobs are "spooled," which means the file specified by the lpr command is copied into a "spooling directory," where it is actually printed.

Learn more about Printing

spot> man printing

Compilers

This is an overview of how to compile programs on Unix machines. The examples are specific to the C compiler but can be applied to all Unix compilers. Note that compilers are available only on rintintin, rastro, and eddie--not on the information-only machines like spot. To find out which compilers are on a particular machine, type:

man -k compile

This command will produce a list of all the compilers that have manual pages and will indicate which sections address compilers. For example, on spot the output looks like this:

Local Documents

This document is designed to introduce Boulder Campus users to local Unix conventions that they may have not seen on Unix systems at other sites. The directory

/usr/cns/doc

contains several files that explain OIT procedures, user responsibilities, and some third-party software documentation. In particular, Accounts, Disk Allocation, and User Responsibilities should be consulted.

Home Directory Conventions

The path to a user's home directory uses the following convention:

Launch man

To use the online Unix manual, enter the command man, followed by the subject you want to read about. For example, to find out nearly everything there is to know about the Unix command ls, which displays the contents of a directory, type man ls in response to the system prompt.

spot> man ls

For more information on the man command itself, type

Logging In

To log in to your Unix account, enter your login name at the login: prompt and press RETURN

login: your-login-name

Or, on Macintosh's Terminal application you will enter:

ssh username@yourserver.colorado.edu

You will now see the Password: prompt

Password:

Enter your password exactly and press RETURN. Your password will not be displayed on the screen as you type it. Your login and password are case-sensitive.

Using Unix Systems

• Getting Started with Unix
• Using Unix Online Manual Pages
• Local Unix Conventions
• Using OIT Unix Compilers
• Printing from Unix Systems

Unix Editors

• Editors on OIT Unix Systems
• vi Commands

Troubleshooting Tips

If your web page files are not appearing on the World Wide Web there are a few possibilities for what could be wrong:

The Account You Will Use

• OIT will provision you a "Unix Account" on either spot.colorado.edu or rintintin.colorado.edu. This account will use your CU Login Name (the username you use with your IdentIKey password), however the password will be different than your IdentiKey. You can manually make the password be the same, if that is your preference, but the password will not synchronize with your IdentiKey automatically.