Working on our servers

Internal servers

If you are part of the ESCER Centre you will most likely be working on one of our "internal servers". Check out our server pool under: Serveurs de recherche

Linux/UNIX

The operating system on our servers is Linux. If you are not familiar with Linux/UNIX have a look a the basic Linux/UNIX commands: Basic Linux/UNIX commands

Connection

Connection to our servers from ...
(replace 'servername' by the name of the server and 'username' by your username)

1) ... workstation at UQAM use:
        ssh -YC username@servername.sca.uqam.ca

2) ... outside UQAM:
    To connect to the above servers from any other computer you first have to connect to st0 or hoppy (external servers of the ESCER Center) with:
        ssh -YC username@st0.sca.uqam.ca
    respectively
        ssh -YC username@hoppy.sca.uqam.ca
    Once connected you can connect to the servers above by again just using the name of the server:
        ssh -YC servername

3) ... other server or to transfer data from one server to another of the ESCER Center
    Only use the name of the server:
        servername
    (For transfers the speed will be faster than when using the longer address!)

To change your password, follow the instructions on our wiki page:
    Change password

Your home

On all of our internal servers you have the same home called: /HOME/durat
For your home you have a quota of 200 MByte.
Everything under the home directories is backed up. You can find more information about our backup policies and how to retrieve the backups on the following wiki: :
    Home backup
Since the homes are backed up it is highly recommended to keep everything that is small and important in your home, like all your scripts and programs! You can work with symbolic links if you like to have your scripts and programs accessible from other directories or on other file systems.

Your data

To store your data you have disk space available on jacta under /upslope/durat.