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Misc. Info on Vacation

Using vacation to have auto-responded messages sent when you recieve email is still available on the new PCN systems, as it was previously on bohr. Some differences are important to note:

* Put your message in a file called .vacation.msg. Users that are used to the vacation program on bohr might notice a couple of differences, most notably, the version of vacation installed does not expand variables in the vacation.msg file, like $SUBJECT. This file should be in the following format:
From: us…
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Index

Getting started with PINE email program

Using PINE

Setting up PINE printers

Setting up remote IMAP folders

Configuring PINE for IMAP servers
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Kicked back to log-in screen after logging in?

Your account is most likely over its disk quota, and your X-window session cannot write any files into your home directory.

To fix:

* Log into the system via the console (press CTRL-ALT-F2)
* ssh to bohr.
* Type the command 'quota -v'.
* Find the files that are using all your space with the 'du' command. (type 'man du' for information on usage)
* Remove, move away, or compress files such that you are below your quota.
* You can switch back to the X-Window login by pressing CTR…
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Windows Terminal Services

ITaP provides the service GoRemote in order to remotely run Windows Software. For more information about this system and to login, go to the ITaP GoRemote website.

To access Microsoft Office documents, all Debian Sarge legacy machines have 'abiword', and 'gnumeric' installed, which are, respectively, Word and Excel compatible programs.
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Windows Terminal Services

ITaP provides the service GoRemote in order to remotely run Windows Software. For more information about this system and to login, go to the ITaP GoRemote website.

You will need to download and install the appropriate version of Citrix Receiver for your Linux distribution to use this ITaP service. Contact PCN to have this software installed on PCN Supported Linux machines.
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