(1) Course rosters will now be obtained online from Banner (or Blackboard Vista) . The old system SIS will no longer exist.

(2) Final course grades will now be submitted online via Banner (or Blackboard Vista) . The old green sheets will no longer exist.

(3) Plus or minus grades are now possible .
(a) All 100 and 200 level courses are required to give final grades that may include +/- grades (where necessary).

(b) For all single-section courses above 300, giving final grades that may include +/- (where necessary) is strongly recommended.

(c) All multi-section courses above 300 are required to have a consistent policy regarding the giving or not giving +/- final grades (where necessary).

Reminders:
# You must use your Purdue Career Account, not your Math account.

# You must be FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) certified in order to access BANNER (or Blackboard Vista). Certification information is available at: FERPA Certification

# Be aware that you will have access to student data, most of which you don’t need. Privacy and security should be maintained when accessing student records.

For more information see Is this a real email?.

Neither ITaP nor Math IT will ever ask you to reveal your password in an e-mail response, or over the phone, or in person. They will never send you a URL in an e-mail to click on that will ask you for your password; if necessary, they will give you instructions on how to get to a certain web page from the Math department home page or the Purdue home page. Additionally, neither ITAP nor Math IT will ever ask for any sensitive information (your date of birth, your Social Security Number, etc.).

Please feel free to email helpdesk@math.purdue.edu if you’re wondering about a specific email; however, if you have any suspicions about an email, it’s probably spam.

Instead of waiting for Math IT to reset a forgotten or unknown password, you can now reset it yourself!

All that’s required is that you provide the answers to some questions now. Later, when you wish to reset your math password, you’ll be asked those same questions and will need to provide the exact same answers.

1. Pick and answer the questions on this page: https://www.math.purdue.edu/mathnet/securitychallengequestions/
2. Forget your password.
3. Follow the instructions on this page: https://www.math.purdue.edu/resources/resetpassword to reset your password.

Additionally, the many common applications available by opening Finder, selecting [Macintosh HD] and then selecting [Math Applications], are regularly updated by the Math Computer Systems staff.

• IMAP: imaphost.math.purdue.edu — SSL Port: 993
• POP: pophost.math.purdue.edu — SSL Port: 995

Outgoing Mail Servers

• mailrelay.math.purdue.edu
• smtp.purdue.edu

Webmail

Webmail can be accessed at the following address:
webmail.math.purdue.edu

# Show shared printers on the local network.

Browsing On

BrowseOrder allow,deny

BrowseAllow all

You need to add a new configuration setting, so that this section of the config file looks like this:

# Show shared printers on the local network.

Browsing On

BrowseOrder allow,deny

BrowseAllow all

BrowseProtocols cups

• Click the “Save Changes” button, enter the username and password of a user with administrative rights and the cups server should restart.
• Reboot the computer, open up System Preferences, and then the “Print & Fax” pane.
• You should now be able to add the Math printers to your list of printers.
• Again, you need administrative rights to do this.

Email clients, like Mail.app and Thunderbird, like to know that they’re the only program accessing email stored on the local machine. This avoids potential email file corruption.

Sometimes, however, these email clients get confused and insist that another program is writing to their files. If this happens to you, you can assure Mail.app that its files are okay by removing a lock file.

From the command line, run this command:

rm ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index.lock

From Finder, navigate from your home directory, to Library, to Mail and drag the Envelope Index.lock file to the Trash.

Of course, sometimes Mail.app files really do get corrupted. If you continue to experience problems, you can reset Mail.app and wipe out all of its settings and start fresh*.

From the command line, run this command:

rm -rf ~/Library/Mail ; rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

Now open Mail.app and (re)create your mail account.

* Sometimes a fresh start is a bad thing. If you use POP to grab your email from the server, you should not do this. If you have spent lots of time writing client side email filter/rules, you should not do this.

The MAC address look like xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx where x is a hexidecimal character. The method for retrieving a computer’s MAC address varies for different operating systems:

• Windows.
  • From the Start Menu, choose the “Run…” option.
  • Run the “cmd.exe” program.
  • Once the DOS box has appeared, type “ipconfig /all” into it.
  • The output from the ipconfig command lists the MAC address for each of the network interfaces on your computer. If your computer can connect to a wireless network, you have two MAC addresses. You need to find the non-wireless address.
• Mac OSX
  • Click on the Apple () in the top left corner of your screen.
  • Click the “About this Mac” option.
  • Click the “More Info” button.
  • Click on the top level “Network” link.
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the resulting information, until you see the MAC address entry.
  • It will look something like this:
  • 
• Linux
  • Run the command: ifconfig -a
• Solaris
  • Run the command: arp computer_name (or arp `uname -n`)

Mathjobs.org provides nice documentation for Logging on, getting started as well as a User Guide and a short video introduction (in flash). Any question not answered by the available documentation can be asked of Math’s Web-Helpdesk.

1. You should have received (yet another) password in an email to your math email account. Using that password you can Login to Mathjobs.org at https://www.mathjobs.org by clicking the “… as Faculty or staff at employer institutions” link (under the “Login to MathJobs.org” heading). Use your email address at which your received your temporary password for your username. Upon logging in, you will be asked to change your password. You must pick a password that does not include a “dictionary word”.
2. Upon logging in, the list of applicants is displayed for our two open positions. TT is the Tenure Track Professor position, RAP is the Research Assistant Professor. (Please make sure both entries in *[RAP0018362007 TT0018372007]* are shaded green. If, for example, *RAP0018362007* is shaded gray, the listed applicants will not include those applying only for RaP’s. Click on either of these entries to go back and forth from green to gray.) Also, as the list of applicants grows, they will not all be display on the first page. Please click on the “ALL” button at the top (or bottom) of the page to display all applicants.
3. Clicking on a name will open a new window with that applicant information. Here you can read the various parts of the application separately (cover letter, letters of recommendation, teaching statement, research statement, etc.). You can click on the “All” button at the very top (to the right of “Address“) to generate a single pdf file which is just like a complete paper application.
4. For each applicant, one can assign Ratings, Refer the applicant to another faculty member, and even jot down private notes.
   1. “Refer this appl to“: You can select other faculty on the list (right to the left of this box) who you think should also read it and select “email notify” to have the system send email to that person. Note: to select multiple usernames, one must hold down the the command key on a Mac (), or the Ctrl key on a Unix or Windows machine.
   2. Your Private Notes. These notes appear as “yellow smiley faces” right below the applicants name once you return to the main Application List and after you click on the list again to update the system. These notes are only visible to you and the “managers” of the system who are the Department Head, Sally Goeke and the Webmaster.
5. IMPORTANT: Please make sure you click on the “submit” button at the bottom of the screen or else your work will not be recorded!
6. A useful tool for finding applicants that match specific parameters is the “Search” link at the top of the mathjobs.org webpage.

Go to Terminal’s Preferences

Change “xterm-color” to “xterm”.

Alternatively, one can change their terminal type from the command line by typing:

setenv TERM xterm

(if that doesn’t work, try export TERM=xterm)

1. Go to MathSciNet (the Resources page on the web site links to Rice’s mirror, which is quite fast).
2. Search for yourself in the “Author” search box and hit return.
3. It will give you a list of papers, some of which will be by you. Find a paper with your name and click on your name. Ensure that the list of papers is really by you.
4. In the upper left of the page, beside “Batch Download:” choose Citations (BibTeX)”.
5. If you have 50 or fewer publications, hit “Retrieve First 50″ to the right of “Batch Download: “. If you have more than 50 publications, then one will have to mark the checkbox besides all the publications and then click “Retrieve Marked”.
6. Copy all the data in the typewriter font to a file; I’d name it username.bib.
7. On one the Solaris math servers (ie bessel), run this command in a terminal window:
   /opt/csw/bin/bibtex2html -nobibsource -nodoc -noheader -nofooter -q -o outputfile username.bib
   This will create outputfile.html
8. Copy username.html to
   ~/WWWbio/Publications/index
   We recommend copying username.bib to
   ~/WWWbio/Publications/username.bib

There are sample files showing how to use them at:

/pkgs/texlive/2005/texmf-local/tex/plain/local/

The short version is that after the

\input amstex
\documentstyle{whatever}

lines (if any) say

\input mathletter2006
You can use the macros \address, \salutation, and \closing for the obvious things. By default, it uses a black-and-white version of the Purdue logo; if you have a color printer and want to use the black-and-gold version, say \goldlogo after you input mathletter.
Tell Brad Lucier if you have problems (but please see plaintest.tex and amstextest.tex first).

For the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) users manual, click
here.

From Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

1. In the Finder, click on the Go menu
2. Select “Connect to Server”

3. In the “Server Address:” field enter

smb://smbhost.math.purdue.edu/{yourusername}

4. Click the “+” button on the right side of the field to
add this address to your favorites.

5. Set the “WorkGroup or Domain” field to ‘MATH’.
6. Enter your Math account login for “Name” and your Math account password for “Password”

From a PC running Windows:

1. Right click the Start menu.

2. Click Explore.

3. On the Tools menu, click Map Network Drive.

4. In Drive, select a drive letter.

5. In Folder, type in the string

\\smbhost.math.purdue.edu\yourloginid

where “yourloginid” is your Math login id.

6. When prompted, enter your Math Account login and password

If you are running Windows XP/2000/NT, you may need to use the option on the Map Network Drive window Connect using different user name and enter your Math Account login and password. With Windows 98, your local User name must match your Math Account login.

The below links provide some rudimentary documentation for signing up with Thawte, generating your certificate and installing it in your email client.

1. Digital Signatures and Email Security
2. Obtaining a Thawte Login
3. Creating your Thawte Certificate
4. Downloading your Thawte Certificate
5. Installing your Thawte Certificate

Please report any errors to helpdesk@math.purdue.edu.

To execute these options, send an email to the following address and include the option in the subject line.

alligate@mailrelay.math.purdue.edu

Options to enter in subject line:
• To “un-whitelist” an address, enter disallow::someone@somewhere.com
• To “allow” an address, enter allow::someone@somewhere.com
• To “block” an address, enter block::someone@somewhere.com
• To retrieve your digest, enter Send Digest

Note: You may receive a confirmation message you must respond to before the action is completed.

Here’s how to set it up:

• Open Mac Mail
• From the top Menu goto Preferences:
  
• Next, open the “Composing” tab on the top of the dialog windows and choose the “Configure LDAP” button:
  
• Once the “Configure LDAP” window appears, click the +button in the lower left-hand corner. This window should appear:
  
• You need to fill the fields as shown in the below image:
  
• If you want to use the lookup functionaliy from off-campus, you should enter your Purdue Career Account username and password and set the “Auth Type” to SSL.
• Click the “Save” button.
• If you want to query the Mathematics Department server as well as Purdue’s, click the + sign in the lower, left-hand corner and fill out the fields with the below values:
  
• Finally, click the “Done” button.
• Be sure to check the “Automatically complete addresses” button on the “Composin” tab of Mail’s Preferences.

Start a “New” email message, and type the name of a Purdue person, the name should automatically be translated into an email address.

If you need assistance, email helpdesk@math.purdue.edu.

If you need assistance, email helpdesk@math.purdue.edu.

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http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/KnowledgeBase/

First, go to the Mathematical Science Library’s web page:

http://www.lib.purdue.edu/math

Then click on the MathSciNet link. Next, enter your Purdue career account information. This will link you to the MathSciNet portal.

Any files named ‘mainindex.html’ or mainindex.php’ will be served as the default main/index/welcome page and will not be linked to from the Web Directory.

If your personal webpage exists somewhere other than the Mathematics Department servers, but you would still like it listed in the Departmental Web Directory, you should place redirect file in your Math Web Space. Specifically a file named index.html containing the following:
<html>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://www.yourhomepage.com/whatever” />
</html>
Please replace the url with your appropriate external url.

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/connections/vpn/

ssh -Y user@host

-Y enables “trusted X11 forwarding”

Alternately, have the two lines:

ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes

in ~/.ssh/config

To change this setting, browse to your Applications folder, then to the Citrix ICA Client Folder.

- Launch the Citrix ICA Client Editor.
- On the Network Connections tab, click on the “Default Settings” button towards the bottom left. On the “Making a Connection” tab, you will see an area for Network Protocol.
- Click on the drop down box and change the setting from TCP/IP + HTTP to just TCP/IP.
- Save your settings and try connecting again.

This application will load a terminal window. Type the following command in the terminal window:

ssh -X [username]@[server name]

or, to enable trusted X11 forwarding

ssh -Y [username]@[server name]

If you cannot find X11, it may not be installed on your machine. Please email helpdesk@math.purdue.edu and request that it be installed.

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/connections/vpn/

Purdue’s Engineering Computer Network has SSH clients available for Purdue faculty, staff, and students. Below is a link to the ECN software download page.

https://engineering.purdue.edu/PULS/pc_software/ssh_clients

We recommend SSH Client 3.x (SSHWinClient). Once the SSH client is installed, create a connection to any of the math servers.

Click here for more detailed instructions to setup a connection in Windows XP.

Additionally, documentation for new math account holders provides more information: https://www.math.purdue.edu/resources/computing/newaccount/

To use Mathematica via X Windows you must either have a local copy of or a font path directed to the following two directories:

/pkgs/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/BDF/
/pkgs/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1/

For example, on a Macintosh running X11 these folders should be copied and placed in the directory:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/

This way Mathematica will load without any error messages on missing fonts.

% tex file.tex
% dvips -Pweb file.dvi
% /pkgs/usrlocal/bin/distill file.ps

It also works with “latex file.tex”, etc.

tar cfv [filename.tar] [directory/file to tar]

To extract files from a tar file:

tar xfv [filename.tar] [directory to extract to]

To view the contents of a tar file:

tar tfv [filename.tar]

passwd -r ldap -e

This will prompt you to enter your current password. It will then ask you to enter the path to a “New Shell”.

Common Shells:
/bin/bash
/bin/tcsh
/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh

Alternatively, you can change your password by logging into MathNet.

If you can’t remember your password, please contact us.