Useful tips for Unix

**DJ Ms. White** · 06-20-11, 02:49 PM

Anyone have useful tips for Unix? It's been a few years since I've worked with it. I'm going to be working on a super computer that uses it for my research.

**DJ Ms. White** · 06-20-11, 04:27 PM

Oh, and I'll probably tunneling in. Can anyone recommend a good program for that? Free would be nice but is not necessary.

**Bunni** · 06-20-11, 09:18 PM

we need clarification either through elaboration, or contextual details.

Tips for doing what on unix?

Tunneling into what? Terminal? Desktop?

**DJ Ms. White** · 06-20-11, 09:23 PM

Tunneling into a supercomputing network.
Tips for anything really although any tips on running batch files would be especially nice.

**h7g6f5** · 06-21-11, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Tunneling into a supercomputing network.
Tips for anything really although any tips on running batch files would be especially nice.

I'm assuming you want to SSH into the computer either off campus or on campus. You could use PuTTy...

Respectfully,
h7g6f5

**[CoFR]SirMoo** · 06-21-11, 01:27 AM

http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml for writing shell scripts. You should also read the docs for your scheduler to see how to write proper job submission scripts. If your environment is using Sun Grid Engine PM me and I can point you to some sample SGE submission scripts.

to enable execution of files you create you must remember to `chmod a+x yourfile.sh' (modify permissions to allow everyone to execute the file), then to execute it you `./yourfile.sh'

never hurts to learn vi either

**DJ Ms. White** · 06-21-11, 01:30 PM

Talked with my adviser. I'll be using Xming and Putty. Probably use the same for LONI. I also found out that Loni is redhat.

Thank you for the info on shell scripts. That will definitely come in handy!