You will need to bring a valid form of ID with you when submitting your account request form to one of the Computer Centers (University Hall, Dickinson, Bancroft Hall at Teaneck, or Dreyfuss at Madison). Valid forms of ID by account type are:

alumnus accounts: Driver's License and FDU diploma
other accounts : FDU ID

For account request forms, you can obtain the form from one of the Computer Centers, or request a fax copy, or you can download the form in pdf format.

The account request will not be processed without sufficient documents nor through e-mail.

Each individual Alpha account is good for one year. All class accounts will be deleted at the end of each semester.

Use the "check_me" command to check the expiration date of your personal account (all but class account).

There are three steps to renew an alumnus account from out of the United States.

1. Use the "check_me" command to check the expiration date.
2. Before expiration date, download and print an account request form, or send an e-mail with your fax number to fdutac@fdu.edu to request an account request form.
3. Send three items through fax to 201-692-2494.
   

   I. a completed account request form II. a diploma copy III. a passport copy with your name and photo

1. You will need to bring a valid form of ID and go to one of the Computer Centers on FDU campus (University Hall, Dickinson, Bancroft Hall at Teaneck, or Dreyfuss at Madison).
2. You can call University Technical Assistance Center (UTAC) at (973)443-UTAC and fax us a valid form of your ID while holding the phone with us.

Valid forms of ID by account type are:

alumnus account: Driver's License and FDU diploma
other account: FDU ID

Same as the above - password expired.

After you turn in the request, you should be able to login with the same password by noon of the next day.

alpha.fdu.edu> passwd

This command brings up the password program. You can follow the instructions to change your password.

The specific intention of these guidelines is to discourage choosing normal words as passwords. However, we recognize that a password which you cannot remember is only likely to be written down on paper, something we would prefer to avoid. There are other means of choosing memorable passwords at your disposal. For instance, you can combine the first or last letters of a group of favorite objects, say a favorite phrase from your childhood, into an unrecognizable, but for you a memorable password. Don't forget that you'll need to include some non-alphabetics just to spice things up a bit.

A successful password change adheres to the following guidelines:

Must contain at least 4 distinct characters with a minimum length of 8.
May not contain: #, @, :, ^X, ^U, ^S, ^Q, DEL, BAK.
Must contain alphabetic and non-alphabetics.
Must not contain any 3 characters in a row of your finger information.
A dictionary check with the characteristics:
May not contain 3 ~ 7 sequential characters that comprise a word.
May not contain 8 sequential characters that comprise a substring of a word.
May not contain (sub)strings found in your .plan, .project, .signature, and .forward files.
May not contain common data formats such as xxx-xx-xxxx and dd/mm/yy.
May not contain common date formats such as dd-mm-yy and mmddyy.

use on-line help, if no idea at all:
alpha.fdu.edu> man -k command

use on-line help, if you know what you want:
alpha.fdu.edu> man [x] ( x = topic )

The reason is that you used all your processes.

To kill all your zombie processes, run the command in front of the Alpha prompt to logout.

alpha.fdu.edu> kill -KILL 0

alpha.fdu.edu> lpr -Pprint_queue_name filename

Print queue names examples (partial list)

Teaneck Campus
uhall - Letter Writer in University Hall, UH28
becton - DEC LP27 printer in Becton Hall B104

Hackensack Campus
dhall - Letter Writer in Dickinson Hall, Lab C

Madison Campus
madison - Printronix printer in Dreyfuss building CPU room

Monmouth Campus
monmouth - Line printer in Fort Monmouth

use the lpq command to find out the job_ID
alpha.fdu.edu> lpq -Pprint_queue_name

alpha.fdu.edu> lprm -Pprint_queue_name job_ID user_name

The SAS System is an integrated applications system for data access, management, analysis and presentation. SAS is a company name.

For more information about SAS, access www.sas.com.

For related man pages on the Alpha, type the "man -k sas" command in front of the Alpha prompt. The software can be accessed by typing the "sas" command in front of the Alpha prompt.

Individual Oracle Qualification:
Teaneck campus: any CS/MIS/MATH major who belongs to CS Department
Madison campus: any CS Grad students

After one obtains Oracle access, use command sqlplus to start Oracle.

You need to set the permissions in your home directory to drwxr-xr-x. Do the following:

alpha.fdu.edu> cd
alpha.fdu.edu> chmod 755 .
alpha.fdu.edu> chmod 644 .project
alpha.fdu.edu> chmod 644 .plan

To learn more about permission modes, type man chmod at the Alpha prompt.

add the following line to the .login file
set prompt="<new_prompt> "

You will see your new prompt at the next login

Assuming that your home directory is /home/student/backup.
First, in case you do not have enough memory space for the compression, make a copy of your home directory to /tmp directory.
Second, go to /tmp and compress the whole tree using tar and gzip.
Third, delete the copy of your home directory in /tmp.

alpha.fdu.edu> cp -r /home/student/backup /tmp/backup
alpha.fdu.edu> cd /tmp
alpha.fdu.edu> tar clvf - backup/* | gzip -c > backup.tar.gz
alpha.fdu.edu> rm -rf /tmp/backup

You can save or download this copy of backup.tar.gz as your backup. If by accident, you deleted some important files, you can retrieve those files by uploading backup.tar.gz to /tmp directory and uncompress this backup.tar.gz.

alpha.fdu.edu> cd /tmp
alpha.fdu.edu> zcat backup.tar.gz | tar xpvf -

After you retrieve those important files, delete the copy of your home directory in /tmp.

alpha.fdu.edu> rm -rf /tmp/backup