Bioch508 - Unix Login

The Unix/Perl exercises for Bioch508 will use the Unix/Linux server watson.achs.virginia.edu. Today, we would like to confirm that you can login to this server, using either ssh/slogin (MacOSX) or SecureCRT (Windows).

Getting Started

Mac OSX users can use the Terminal program (available in /Applications/Utilities/terminal to connect to watson.achs.virginia.edu
  1. Start the terminal program. (You may want to keep a copy on your Dock)

  2. Type: slogin your_login_id@watson.achs.virginia.edu

  3. Enter your password (for most of you, it will be your CMS mail password; if you have used blue.unix, it will be that password).

  4. You should be in, and see a command prompt.

Windows users first need to download and install the SecureCRT program using the instructions in the link.

Once SecureCRT is installed, follow the instructions on the SecureCRT WWW page and make a connection to watson.achs.virginia.edu (instead of blue.unix.virginia.edu).

Using the command line

  1. Mac and Windows -- Once you have logged in, you can type a few commands (ls to list your files), man ls, echo $PATH.
  2. Be sure and log out, either by typing Ctrl-D (^D) or logout or exit.

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