Change your password?

• Go to the Faculty password changer.

Find out about the machine you're logged on to?

• uname -a

Find out what terminal your clients will display on?

• echo $DISPLAY

Run a program that is in your current directory?

• ./filename

Change the permissions on a directory or file so no one (except you) can read it?

1. chmod 600 file ...or...
   
2. chmod 700 directory ...or...
   
3. chmod go-rwx file_or_directory
   

Print a file?

• Go to our generic printing page here.

Resurrect a file you accidently deleted?

• You can't. UNIX systems don't have an "undelete" facility so be careful.
  If you're worried about accidently deleting files, add something like this to your .bashrc:
  alias rm='/bin/rm -i'

Find out how much disk space you're using, and how much you're allowed?

• Try du -sk ~

Set up an environment variable?

• Edit your .profile file. There are some example export commands in there.

Create your own Web page?

• Follow this link.