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Linux Shell

Prairienet provides users with access to the Linux shell. The default is a menu-driven interface.

Turning off the menu

Easy method

Go to "Shell"
Type "nomenus" at the UNIX prompt.
Log out.
Log back in.

If you want to start using menus again, log in and type "usemenus".

Macho method
Edit the .bash_login file and comment out lines as indicated. Specifically, once you're at the shell prompt, type "pico .bashrc". There are comments in that file to point the user to the lines to be commented out. To comment out, you need to put a "#" symbol (no quotes) at the beginning of that line. Log out and the next time you log in you'll be at the shell prompt instead of the menu.

Default Shell

The default shell is Linux Bash. To see if your preferred shell is available, type:
which [shellname]

Available Applications

Editors: vi, pico
Newsreaders: tin, pine
Web browsers: links, lynx
Email: pine
Secure shell: ssh
Secure FTP: sftp

For more information on these programs, type: man [programname] E.g.: man vi will pull up documentation for vi. Full-screen programs also have internal help available.

Mail forwarding

Mail files are centralized on the mail server and owner by a single owner. Individual account files are no longer modifiable by the account owner. The upshot is that mail forwarding (using .qmail .forward) doesn't work. Here how to request email forwarding

Web Directory

If you list your home directory, you will see public_html. This is a symbolic link to your world-readable Web directory. Be careful not to delete this. Replacing is with a public_html directory will NOT work.

If you are creating new files, be sure to make them world-readable or they will not be visible on the Web. Use this command chmod 755 [filename] to make a file world-readable.

Included on this page:

Turn off menus
Default Shell
Available Applications
Mail Forwarding
Web directory