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Spunge.org's User's Guide

So, you want to know what all you can do with your user account at spunge.org, huh? What? Did you say you don't have a user account at spunge.org? Well, then you either need to get [1] one, or (link)leave. The things listed om this page (and any page I link to) are to be used only by those who have a user account at spunge.org. This is for several reasons. Please follow this. Thanks :)


OK, if you have read this far, you probably have an account at spunge.org. This page is for you. I will attempt to explain what thingys are at spunge.org as well as briefly explain how to use them. You can always ask me for help if you need it,

Here is what you can find at spunge.org

Machines/Names
Standard UNIX Stuffs
Mail Forwarding
User Quota
How to make a Web Page
Web Page Counter
Web Page Stats


Machines/Names
Here is a listing if the names of the different machines, and what you would use that name for.
NAMEPurpose
shell.spunge.orgTelnet access. Username and password are required
games.spunge.org Telnet access for those who have an account there
(used as there POP3, FTP, and web server also)
mail.spunge.orgPOP3 mail server
www.spunge.orgWeb Server
ftp.spunge.orgFTP Server
lists.spunge.orgMail List Server
news.spunge.orgNNTP/News Server
games.spunge.orgIRC Sercer, but isn't connected to any other networks
(Port 6667)
games.spunge.orgMUD server
(Port 4000)
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Standard UNIX Stuffs
All of the standard UNIX stuff is accessable from your user account (once telnetted in). Things like lynx, ftp, ping, finger, traceroute, ircII, and whois. There are some grapics utils also there. If you need help with a program, first type man program-name (where "program-name is the name of the program you want help with). If you can't seem to find a utility you want , let
me know. You also can compile programs, and even write PERL scripts, as PERL is installed. If you need a module for PERL, or something, let me know, and I will probably install it for you.

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Mail Forwarding
Since your spunge.org account might not be your primary email account (especially for those list owners), you might want to forward any mail that is delivered to spunge.org to someplace else. Here is what you need to get that done. One thing you need to f igure out, is if you want to forward your mail and keep a copy on spunge.org, or if you just want it forwarded. I have given instructions for both.

* Telnet to shell.spunge.org
* Figure out if you want to forward and keep a copy on spunge.org, or just forward it all
* To forward and keep a copy on spunge.org, type the following as I have it here:

cat>.forward
\username, your@other.email.address
[control-d]
NOTE: replace username with the username at spunge.org. Also replace your@other.email.address with the email address wher eyou want email forwarded to. Finally, replace [control-d] with the key combination control-d
* To forward your email, and not keep a copy on spunge.org
cat>.forward
your@other.email.address
[control-d]
NOTE: Replace your@other.email.address with the email address wher eyou want email forwarded to. Finally, replace [control-d] with the key combination control-d

* Send a test message to your spunge.org account, and see if it gets forwarded to where you wanted it to. If you have problems, let me know.

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User Quota
Every user is set up with a user quota. There are several reasons for this. I don't intend on explaining what the reasons are. Most users figure one of the reasons is so I have something to nag them about. That really isn't it. The quotas are there for good reasons, and I hate messing with them. I do ask that you keep an eye on your quotas, and if you go over them, delete files. If you go over your quota, and your grace period starts to tick down, I am likely to contact you, and ask you to delete files. As disk space beomes tighter and tighter, I will become more strict. For the most part, everyone starts out with a 5 meg soft quota, and a 10 meg hard quota. The soft quota is the quota I pretty much go by, as it is infact your quota. the nice thing about the soft quota, is that you can go over it. This might happen from time to time, as you work on things. Once you go over your soft quota, you have 7 days to get back below it, or it turns into a hard quota until you go back below it. A hard quota is the max amount of space you can put on the drive. Once you hit the hard quota, you can't add another byte. It asks like a disk full for you. In order to put more in your home directory, you will need to delete files. To find out how you are doing on your quota, type quota once you are logged in. You will get somethign that looks like this:
Disk quotas for user joeblow (uid 999):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit  grace
      /dev/hda5    5670*   5000   10000   6days     406       0       0
If you are over your soft quota, this is the amount of time you have left, to get below the soft quota, before the soft quota acts like a hard quota.
Line #2Line #3What it means
FileSystem/dev/hda5This is deals with what partitions I have quotas set for you. /dev/hda5 just happens to be /home, where your home directories are.
blocks5670*This is the number of blocks of block in bytes K that you are using. The "*" after this number, means you are over your quota.
quota5000This is your soft quota. In this example, this person has 5000, 1 K blocks (i.e. 5 meg) of soft quota
limit10000This is the hard limit. In this case, the person has 10 Meg.
grace6days
There are two choices for you once youare over your quota. They should be approached in this order
* Delete files and clean house
* Ask
me to up your quota.

To delete files, you will need to use the rm command, or you can use FTP and delete them. Once the files are deleted, there is no getting them back. Please be careful.

To delete files, you can do the following. Pretend the listing below are files in your directory

EXAMPLE:
filename1
filename2
Filename3
directory1
directory2
filename4

Lets say you wanted to delete the file filename1. You would type:

rm filename1

Not too hard, is it? If you wanted to delete filename1 and Filename3, you would do:

rm filename1 Filename3

NOTE: the capitalization matters.

now, what if you wanted to delete directory1. directory1 is an empty directory. You would do this:

rmdir directory1

But what if you wanted to delete directory2, but it has things in. You can do this following:

cd directory2
rm -R *
cd ..
rmdir directory2

The -R will delete everything in the current directory, and all directories under it.

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How to make a Web Page
Ok, so this isn't really going to be about how to make a web page, but rather how to get the process rolling at spunge.org. This is a short and simple process.

* Telnet to shell.spunge.org
* type "mkdir public_html" (without the quotes)

That really is all there is to it. If you would go to http://www.spunge.org/~your-username you would get your web page. Well, kind of. You would get a directory listing, of which there is nothing there. This is because you don't have the file index.html in that directory. The web server looks for the file index.html as teh defualt page to load. If this file isn't there, it will just give a directory listing of whatever is there.

As a little security measure you will proabbyl want to put an index.html file in all directories under the public_html directory. If you don't people will be able to go in there and look at the scripts you are using, and grab the pictures you have in there.

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Web Page Counter
There is a web page counter that the users of spunge.org are free to use. you can find the docs for it at http://www.fccc.edu/users/muquit/Count.html#opti [68] .

The one thing I ask, is that you define the df in the following manner:
* the df=file.name should be defined, so that there are at least 2 parts to it. The first part, is your username. This is followed by a period, and then something so you can tell your web pages apart.
* EXAMPLE:
Say your username is joebob, and you have two web pages you want different web counters on. you would defind the df= like this.

df=joebob.friends <---for the one page you want a counter on
df=joebob.index <---for the other page you want a counter on

As always, if you have problems, or are confused, email me.

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Web Page Stats
These will look a lot like the systems wide stats at
spunge.org , except, these ones will be just of your web pages. It is possable to password protect them, so that only you have access. If you want something like this set up, contact me and we will get things set up.

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Last Updated: Nov 29, 1998
spunge@spunge.org
URL: http://www.spunge.org/users.html