Departmental Notes
Notes on how to do things, generally in the department.
Phone Numbers
- 2019 - Campus Ken, haircuts on campus
- 3500 - Derwent Reception, book squash courts
- 3855 - Sports Centre
To find someones phone number and email address in the department:
phone neil
Biscuits
Tea Club: http://intranet.cs.york.ac.uk/teaclub. Give money to David Pumfrey.
Unix
All these relate to logging on to venice.
The Printer
Normal black and white printer: pp10
Backup black and white printer: pp05
Colour printer: cp06 (need to register first)
Check the printer
lpq -Ppp10
Delete your print job (you can get the jobid from checking the printer)
lprm -Ppp10 jobid
Processes and Politeness
Figure out how much processor/memory you are using
top
Stop taking priority with a batch job
nice -n 10 command
Terminal Server
In /usr/local/bin/foss, remove -x l option, then:foss
Disk Space
Disk space (200Mb): /usr/ndm
Web space (5Mb): /usr/ndm/web, /n/www/usr/ndm
CS Web server (Unlimited): /n/www/cs/fp
Check your quota
quota
To figure out where all your space has gone:
du * -sh du * -s | sort -g
CVS
To checkout a CVS tree hosted on the network drive, set the CVSROOT to:
:ext:ndm@venice.cs.york.ac.uk/usr/ndm/CVS
Darcs
To pull/push with a Darcs tree hosted on the network drive:
darcs push ndm@venice.cs.york.ac.uk:/usr/ndm/darcs/project
CGI
To see your CGI errors:
tail -f /n/www/log/www_error_log