EECS Instructional Support, UC Berkeley

EECS Instructional Accounts
Spring 2019
End of Semester Information

These Accounts Expire Monday May 20, 2019 at 9am

  - Instructional class accounts (such as "ee1-xx", "cs9a-zz", etc)
  - all Instructional non-CS and non-EECS named accounts
  - Instructional named and "cs199" accounts of CS & EECS majors who 
    graduated or left before January 2019

    '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 WebAcct.

  'Named' and 'cs199' accounts for ongoing CS and EECS students will remain 
  active at least until August 2019 without any action by the user.

/home/tmp directories will be deleted after June 1, 2019

  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 May 17, 2019 Server Down Times

  - Cardkey access to the Instructional labs will terminate at midnight on May 17.
  - Instructional servers may be down at times for maintenance between May 20 and June 24
  
Here is the notice we will post by the labs.

How do I Verify My Account Status?

  To verify your account status, login to WebAcct.

How do I Get off the Expired List?

  If our records are in error, you may complete an EECS Account Request Form 
  and submit it at 378 Cory before May 20...or email inst@eecs.
 
  Or you can just wait until the start of the next semester, when we will have 
  newer enrollment records, and request your account again.

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", 'cs199-aa', 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.

  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.

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

  For more information, please see
  - How Do I Copy Files Between Computers?
  - http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?file=file-transfer.help

What happens to email sent to an expired account?

  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.

  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.  

  AFTER your account expires, no new email is accepted here.  
  
  For more information, please see
  - How Do I Manage Email?
  - http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html#email

  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.

How can I check my grades?

  The Registrar posts grades at CalCentral.
   
  If your class used the EECS Instructional grading software ('submit' and 
  'glookup'), you can still see the 'glookup' results after the account has
  expired:

  Login at the WebAcct site: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/webacct/. 
  Select "List local grades - glookup".

  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 Microsoft Imagine account?

  Please refer to our Microsoft account info page.

'CLASS' ACCOUNTS THAT WILL NOT EXPIRE

  Instructors must notify inst@eecs about any class accounts that need 
  to be extended after May 20.

  All class staff accounts for TA/lab/reader (*-t*, *-l*, *-r*) expire after June 1.

'NAMED' ACCOUNTS THAT WILL EXPIRE

  Users can use WebAcct to check on the status of their Instructional UNIX 
  named accounts: login using your CalNet ID or Instructional UNIX account.

cs199-gwr
cs199-gww
cs199-gwx
cs199-gxf
inst@eecs.berkeley.edu