Congratulations! You are now part of the select group of people who have a login on this server.
Catamaran answers to any and all of the following addresses:
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Your login name allows access from anywhere – we do no blocking or filtering. We currently only support “telnet” as a login protocol, though there are plans to change in the future to use “ssh” instead.
There is a freeware program named “PuTTY.exe” that runs on any Windows machine and acts as either a telnet or ssh client. Both of the catamaran administrators use it and it seems to be very solid.
Your home directory is in /home/yourloginname
There is a shared directory /projects/scratch that is full access to every user on the system. Use it as you want.
Your account has a normal internet e-mail mailbox associated with it, just by virtue of existing. For instance, if your username was “foo” then “foo@reentrant.net” is your e-mail address.
You can access your e-mail by one of:
- Log into your shell account and type “pine”
- Use any POP or IMAP e-mail client from any other computer
Both methods will always work, though the normal caveats about using POP from more than one place all apply. IMAP and pine are completely harmless though.
You can receive e-mail from either the “reentrant.net” or “dracat.net” domain. If you’re using pine, mail will by default look like it comes from the “reentrant.net” domain. Just ask Wyvern if you would rather be a Dracat.
You can also set your catamaran e-mail to forward elsewhere – again, ask Wyvern for details.
Addendum: We now filter who can send mail through our server. So if you are using POP or IMAP to get to your email here, and you are outside the house, you may have trouble sending e-mail. The reason, and the solution, are too much to describe here, so please see us if you run into this. In all cases, you can always telnet to the server and use pine; it will never stop working.
If you create a subdirectory named “www” in your home directory, anything you put in it is web-accessable through:
http://www.reentrant.net/~yourloginname/ or
http://www.dracat.net/~yourloginname/
Example is wyvern's page: http://www.dracat.net/~wyvern/
We use Apache as our web server. For instance, if you wanted to make a simple 1-page website for yourself, you would need to create just one file:
/home/yourloginname/www/index.html
If you want a link to your personal webpage from either the http://reentrant.net or http://dracat.net home page, ask Brett or Wyvern, respectively. We also have an easy way to enable you to edit either the reentrant or dracat front pages if we think this is something you should be doing, so see us for details if that interests you.
Your login also allows FTP access. Just use any FTP client to connect. Not much else can be said.
Though currently not supported, catamaran will eventually support Unix, Windows, and Macintosh file services.
Are there quotas on how much space I can use?
No.
How much space can I use?
Try to keep it under a respectable limit, like a few gigs at most. J
What kind of content should I not have on my website?
You’re our friend. If we didn’t trust
your own judgment there, we wouldn’t have made you an account.
What speed is the system?
We have DSL connectivity, 640K into and 272K out of the server. The server itself is a dual P3-667 with 512M of PC133 memory and runs on a VIA Apollo chipset
motherboard.
Who runs what?
Ask either Brett or Wyvern for pretty much anything that comes to
mind. Brett is nominally in charge of
the web server, Wyvern nominally the e-mail server. Both are a good point of contact for anything though.
Does the server get hacked?
Probably. Hasn’t happened yet, we
think.
What sort of backups are made?
None yet. This will change.