EECS Instructional Computer Accounts
End of Semester Information
Fall 2009

Contents:
  • These Accounts Expire Monday December 21, 2009
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  • /home/tmp directories will be deleted after January 4, 2010
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  • Labs Close Monday December 21; Server Down Times
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  • How do I Verify My Account Status?
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  • What happens to the files in an expired account?
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  • What happens to email sent to an expired account?
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  • Can I copy files and email from my expired account?
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  • How Do I Get off the Expired List?
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  • How can I check my grades?
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  • What happens to my e-Acedemy account?
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    These Accounts Expire Monday December 21, 2009 at 9am

      - Instructional class accounts (such as "ee1-xx", "cs9a-zz", etc)
  - all Instructional non-CS and non-EECS named accounts
  - Instructional named accounts of CS & EECS majors who graduated or 
    left before January 2008

    'NAMED' ACCOUNTS THAT WILL EXPIRE
    'CLASS' ACCOUNTS THAT WILL NOT EXPIRE

  To forward your email from @imail.eecs to another email address, see
  below.

  For info about your own account, login to any Instructional system as 
  "newacct" (password 'newacct').  

  Accounts for current CS and EECS students will remain active at least 
  until December 2009 without any action by the user.

    /home/tmp directories will be deleted on January 4, 2010:

      All files in the /home/tmp directory will be removed.  Please read 
  /share/b/pub/removable-media.help for information about backing up 
  your files.

    Instructional Labs Close December 18, 2009
    Server Down Times

      - Cardkey access to the Instructional labs will terminate on Decmber 18.
  - Instructional servers may be down at times for maintenance between January
    4 and January 18, 2010.
  

Here is a notice we will post by the labs.

    How do I Verify My Account Status?

      Login as 'newacct' (password: 'newacct') at any time on any EECS 
  Instructional UNIX system to verify your account status.  

  Or, login to http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/webacct.

    How do I Get off the Expired List?

      If our records are in error, you may complete an EECS Account Request Form
  (available outside of 386 Cory) and submit it at 386 Cory before December 18.
  Or you can just wait until January 19, when we will have newer 
  enrollment records, and login as 'newacct' (password: 'newacct') to renew 
  your account.  Your files will still be there.

    What happens to the files in an expired account?

      For class accounts ("cs61a-aa", "ee122-aa", etc), the files will be saved 
  for 1-2 weeks, archived to tape and deleted.  Class account logins are 
  reassigned to new students next semester.

  For named accounts ("jdoe", etc), the files will be saved for about a month 
  after the start of the next semester, and the files will be archived to tape 
  before they are deleted.  If the student is eligible again for an account
  next semester, the account can be renewed (by logging in as 'newacct').

  While an account is "expired", you will still have limited access to it:

  - Email will no longer be stored for the account, but it will be forwarded
    to you if you left a forwarding address in your UNIX .forward file.  You
    can copy a .procmailrc file to your account using 'sftp'.

  - If you login to your expired UNIX account using an 'ssh' program (such as 
    Putty on Windows), your grades will be displayed for any EECS classes that 
    use a local grading database ('glookup') this semester.
 
  - If you login to your UNIX account using an 'scp' or 'sftp' program (such as 
     WinSCP on Windows), you will be able to copy your files from the account.

    What happens to email sent to an expired account?

      Email sent to an expired account can only be forwarded to another system - 
  it will not be saved here.  You can also have your own automated reply that 
  tells the sender about your new email address.  If you do not set this up,
  the senders will receive an automated reply telling them that the email 
  address is no longer valid.   Email will be forwarded for up to one year
  after a named account expires.

  These features are set in a .procmailrc file in your UNIX home directory.
  You can create or edit the file using a text editor (vi, emacs) when logged 
  into your UNIX account.  You can also copy a .procmailrc into an expired 
  account using 'sftp' (see What happens to the files in an expired account?).

  Each rule in .procmailrc starts with a ":0" line.
  The "c" in :0c: says to continue to the next rule after processing this one.

  To enable email forwarding, add a rule like this at the beginning of the 
  rules in .procmailrc:

	:0c:
	! me@new.edu

  To enable an auto-reply that is sent in response to incoming email, add this
  rule at the beginning of the rules in .procmailrc:

	:0c:
	* !^From[: ].*$LOGNAME
	| /usr/bin/vacation $LOGNAME

  For auto-replies, you also need to create a message in a file called 
  .vacation.msg and initialize the UNIX "vacation" program.  For example:

       echo "My new email address is me@new.edu." > ~/.vacation.msg
       vacation -I

  You can use a editor to create a better message in the .vacation.msg file.
  See "man vacation" on a UNIX system for more options.

    Can I copy files and email from my expired account?

    
- BEFORE your account expires, you can copy your files from your Windows 
  and UNIX home directories by transferring them to a USB memory stick.
  You could also email them to yourself or use a file transfer program.

  See http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?file=file-transfer.help.  

  On UNIX, you can login and bundle the files into a single compressed file 
  that is easier to copy or email to yourself elsewhere.  Here is an easy 
  way to do that from one of our UNIX accounts:

    % cd				# goes to your home directory
    % zip -9ryq /tmp/$USER.zip .	# makes a copy in the local /tmp dir

  You could copy the /tmp/$USER.zip file somewhere else and unzip it there.
  You can send this file to yourself as an email with an attached Zip file 
  containing all your files, for example:

    % mutt -a /tmp/$USER.zip you@elsewhere.com < /dev/null	# mails it
    % rm /tmp/$USER						# deletes it


- AFTER your account expires, you will not be able to copy the Windows files.

- AFTER your account expires, you will be able to copy the UNIX files over 
  the net until June 2 by using an 'scp' or 'sftp' program (such as Putty
  WinSCP on Windows) to login from another computer.

- BEFORE and AFTER your account expires (as long as the account still exists),
  you can download email from imail.eecs.berkeley.edu, the Instructional IMAP 
  server.  See http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html#email.

  AFTER your account expires, no new email is accepted here.  
  
- The files in an expired class account are removed from our disk a 
  week or two after the end of the semester.  The files for an expired 
  named account remain on the disk until about 1 month into the next 
  semester.

  For more information, please see
  
    - How Do I Manage Email?
    - How Do I Copy Files Between Computers?

    How can I check my grades?

      The Registrar posts grades on-line at http://bearfacts.berkeley.edu.
   
  If your class used the EECS Instructional grading software ('submit' and 
  'glookup'), you can still see the 'glookup' results if you login to your 
  expired account.  

  If you login to your expired UNIX account using an 'ssh' program (such as 
  Putty on Windows), your grades will be displayed for any EECS classes that 
  use a local grading database ('glookup') this semester.  This lasts for 1-2 
  weeks after the account has expired.

    What happens to my e-Academy account?

      All Fall 2009 EECS E-Academy accounts will expire at 9am on December 21, 2009.

  Students who are eligible after January 19, 2010 can request or renew an 
  E-Academy account by following the instructions on 
  http://msdnaa.eecs.berkeley.edu/.

    'CLASS' ACCOUNTS THAT WILL NOT EXPIRE

    'NAMED' ACCOUNTS THAT WILL EXPIRE
    inst@eecs.berkeley.edu