This a brief list of services available on, um, this server:
There are currently two mail user agents meant to be run in terminals, mutt and pine. Mutt is the coolest. Not just of the two, but in general. You can attach messages to other messages and all kinds of cool shit. Spend some time getting intimate with mutt.
procmail is a handy program for separating mail into mailboxes and that sort of thing. It requires a bit of wizardry but the learning curve is rewarding for folks who get too much mail and want the computer to read it for them.
The University of Washington IMAP and qpopper POP3 servers probably require the user to set up a different password for mail access. Contact maintainers if you need that done for you.
Do to the product of some security constraints, users of web mail need to ask an administrator to edit /etc/cram-md5.pwd. After that, you can use poppassd @@ ask kjc @@. Please use a different password than you use for your login access. Options are:
The only remote login protocol accepted by this server is ssh. Those without an ssh client may use the SSH applet. Please be intelligent about ssh. Don't telnet to an intermediate host and ssh from there.
We have MySQL and Postgress database servers. Contact maintainers if you need a database account.
Please read the Acceptable Use Policy before creating content on this server. Home directories have a directory called public_html. This is served as /~someuser/. This address will serve the contents of any of the standard index files (eg index.html index.php3 index.php index.htm index.shtml index.cgi). If none of these files exist, mode_dir will serve a directory index.
We have no tools explicitly designed for authoring HTML. Text editors (eg emacs, vi, pico, ed) will work but will not give much help. emacs does have an sgml-mode and an xml-mode. Simply put the doctype (eg <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>) at the top of the page and type \M-x xml-mode to use this feature.
This document is valid HTML -- this may be verified by following the validator link at the bottom. I (Eric) encourage folks to help accessibility and consistancy by validating your HTML with the W3C Validator. Many authoring programs like frontpage produce invalid HTML. You may use tidy to clean up this HTML. For example:
tidy list.html > list1.html mv list1.html list.html
created a tidied copy of this document in list1.html and then moved it back to where the original document was. If you feel brave about this (don't want a second chance to accept the likely formatting changes), you may use the -m flag to just edit the document in place:
tidy -m list.html
