Some of the programs available at the shell prompt are:

mail   a primitive email program

G   

pine   a more powerful email program

G   

ftp   to FTP onto other sites

G   

telnet   to telnet to other sites

G   

pico   an easy to use text editor

G   

pico   another easy to use text editor

G   

vi   a not so easy to use (but standard) text editor

G   

lynx   a text based world wide web browser.

G   

In general, it s a pretty complete POSIX environment. You access these programs by typing in their names

and then following commands relevant to each program. If you need help with any of the programs, at the

shell prompt, type 

man

 and the name of the program to get instructions for that program online. If your

problem is not knowing the name of the program, try 

apropos subject

 (i.e. 

apropos mail

). It is

important to remember that Unix is case sensitive, and that "Index.htm" is not the same as "index.htm."

Note:

If you experience problems with your telnet program when accessing the above programs you will need to

make a entry in your login directories 

.bash_profile

 file. Just add the following to the last line 

export

TERM=vt100

. This will allow you to access all shell programs properly.

9+ Character Names

A name of anywhere from 3 16 letters is legal for email accounts, FTP accounts, and telnet accounts. There is

no limitation for file names on the server.

Wusage and Access Logs

To count accesses, there is a directory called wusage in your www directory. To access it, just log on the

Internet and with your web browser, go to:

http://www.yourdomain.com/wusage

You will see a webpage with statistics for your domain for the previous week. If you are a brand new domain,

you won t see any statistics there yet. If you go to the link from that page leading to Weekly Reports, you will

see a much more detailed report, including pie charts, graphs, etc. These reports are automatically generated

for you once each week, and are stored in one place so you can compare weekly statistics easily.

If you would like to see domain names in your stats rather than just IP numbers, put an empy file in your

wusage directory called 

dns

 (no extensions). This will act as a switch and reverse authentication will be

activated for the domain.

In your home directory, you will see a file called access log. You can download this file and open it in any

word processor to see exactly what files were accessed, what domain the visitor came from, the dates and

times of each visit, etc.

Checking Server Space Usage

You can find out how much space is in use by the www files for your domain by using Telnet to log into your

account and then from the Unix prompt, typing the following:

du  s /www/htdocs/yourdomain

This will give you a report back of the number of kilobytes (k) all files in your www directory add up to.