Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh

Over the next 7 months, all of the activities associated with CK:P will be migrated to the District. Much of this activity has been going on behind the scenes. The first step was moving our users from the Pitt and CMU modem pools to the PPS modem pool.

We are now ready for the next move - migrating users from oberon (the original CK:P server) to cats1 (the new PPS server). Cats1 will be managed by the PPS Division of Computer Services. This newsletter will explain how the migration will occur and how it will effect our users.

Changes for Users on Oberon

Using the PPS Modem Pool

• When you login to the PPS Modem Pool, you must use login@server and your password in order to authenticate.
  At the login prompt oberon users normally type [smith@oberon]. Now you will have to type [smith@cats1]
  Beginning on June 3rd, if you continue to type [smith@oberon] you will get an authentication failure.

• Your oberon password will work on cats1 with one exception. If your oberon password is longer than 8 characters, only use the first 8 characters when you authenticate at the modem pool or login to cats1.

Email Accounts

• If you use an email address of [smith@pps.pgh.pa.us] nothing will change.

• If you use an email address of [smith@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us] then your new address should be [smith@pps.pgh.pa.us]. This shorter form allows you to receive email at the PPS server where you have an account. One way to guarantee that this is your return address is to configure Pine. Here are the steps.

  
  

  1. Go to Pine
  2. In the Main Menu, Choose S for setup
  3. Choose C for config
  4. Cursor down to user-domain and then hit the return/enter key
  5. Back space to erase
  6. Type: pps.pgh.pa.us and then hit the return/enter key
  7. Choose E to exit setup

  This forces pine to use pps.pgh.pa.us as your return address.

  If you are subscribed to a mailing list (listserv) under the address [smith@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us] you should unsubscribe from the list by June 2. When you are logged into cats1 you can resubscribe to the list with the email address [smith@pps.pgh.pa.us]

  If you use WinQvt or NCSA Telnet you will have to configure a new session for cats1.admin.pps.pgh.pa.us Directions for how to do this can be found at: /projects/ckp/technical/reference/hosts.html

  If you use Eudora, Netscape or other client mailers you will have to reset your options. The new SMTP and POP server is cats1.admin.pps.pgh.pa.us

Addressbook

• Your addressbook may have entries in it that are for [user@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us] or [user@ckp.edu] You will want to edit your addressbook to now read [user@pps.pgh.pa.us]

  
  

• If you have a WWW page on oberon the address will change from http://oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us/~smith/ to http://cats1.admin.pps.pgh.pa.us/~smith/ This may affect links on your page, so check all of your links.

• If you telnet to oberon from another server you will now have to type: telnet cats1.admin.pps.pgh.pa.us

• If you ftp to oberon from another server you now have to type: ftp cats1.admin.pps.pgh.pa.us

Frequently Asked Questions

Answer: The email will bounce back to them with the statement that the email could not be delivered.

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