The Interactive UNIX Service

The University's Interactive Unix Service (IUS) provides a UNIX facility for students and departments whose needs, in the areas of study, research, development and teaching, are not best served by the University's MS-Windows-based services.

The IUS also acts as a front-end to the other UNIX-based services the University provides.

Hardware and Operating system

The IUS comprises a cluster of three SUN machines along with a common fileserver.

The operating system is Solaris 7.

Software

A wide range of software is installed on the system.

Electronic mail

There is a web front end to the UNIX-hosted email service, Webmail. It is also possible to access email by logging into the IUS - for instructions on how to do this see Using Unix for Email.

Webspace

Your web directory will be created in /home/www/YOUR DIRECTORY NUMBER/YOUR USERNAME/public_html/. You can also use the environment variable $WWWHOME/public_html/ to access it.

Depending on the way systems administrators set them up this may also work on other unix machines e.g. bromo. If not, you will need to use FTP or scp. FTP instructions are available on http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/ftp/ - connect to www.lancs.ac.uk

Help

Answers to the most common Frequently Asked Questions are available on-line.
How to forward e-mail from your Unix account (there is also a forwarding option in webmail).

Connecting to the Interactive UNIX Service (IUS) from a PC Lab Using eXceed

Click Start, then All Programs.
Select Hummingbird Connectivity , then Exceed.
Finally select Exceed XDMCP Query.
Under host name or IP Address type cent1.lancs.ac.uk
Click OK.
In the new window, type your UNIX username and password (for the majority of users this is the same as your Windows username and password
Note: When typing in your password it will appear as though nothing is being typed
From the command window, you can open the programs available on the IUS.

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