Morty Abzug's SGI and UNIX tips page

Deadly Netscape feature/ bug!

Netscape, by default, create a disk cache for each user. What this means for practical purposes is that there is an invisible directory for all Netscape users that eats up a huge fraction of disk quota. In some cases, you may lose some mail if intense Netscape use puts you (unwittingly) over quota.

If you use Netscape, go right now to Netscape's options menu, choose "Preferences. . ." (right at the top), click on the box labelled "Windows and Styles", and choose "Cache and Network." Go to the "Disk Cache:" window and choose "zero." Then click on "Clear disk Cache Now."

Changing your finger info.

Type "ypchpass" from the unix prompt. (Brian Brzezicki)

Killing programs on the UMBC SGI's.

Press <ALT> <SHIFT> <LEFT-MOUSE> over the application or icon you wish to remove.

Killing programs when the above won't work.

Type "ps -fu <your-login>"from the unix shell. Find the name of the offensive prgram in the COMD column. Then, use the number in the PID column in the kill command. (Stephen Estes)

Generating line-printer proportion printouts on UNIX (UMBC only)

Type lpr -Pacsljlp . lpr -Pacsljlpdup will make that double-sided, too.

WAIS access at UMBC

We don't have normal WAIS, but we do have xwais. Don't ask me why; I don't know, either. Only accessible if you have an X interface, of course, but better than nothing.