Host condor is a Sun Microsystems server running the Solaris operating system. It serves as the Wesleyan personal web server.
Each Wesleyan faculty, staff, and student has a home directory on condor. A 20MB quota has been configured for each account to ensure everyone receives a fair share of the available disk space. The root of the home directory is not visible from the web. Files to be served out to the web must be stored in the public_html directory, for example in /home/username/public_html.. Use the following URL to view your pages developed on condor: http://username.web.wesleyan.edu. An overview of the web services available at Wesleyan is found at http://www.wesleyan.edu/its/web/. All users have access to CGI (common gateway interface), in the form of cgi-wrappers, for running programs that retrieve data from users or manipulate data according to different parameters. There is a cgi-bin/ directory in your public_html directory for this purpose. See http://www.wesleyan.edu/its/unix/cgiwrap.ctt for more information.
There is a scratch area on condor available to all user that can be used as a temporary holding space for very large files. To access this space, type "cd tmp" at the command prompt and you will enter your personal scratch directory. Note: all files older than 3 days will be removed from this area on a nightly basis.
Computational and programming activities should take place on the Wesleyan UNIX compute server, woodstock.wesleyan.edu. Each Wesleyan faculty, staff, and student has a home directory on this machine as well. This home directory is shared between the two hosts, woodstock and condor.If you encounter problems on condor please send an email about the issue to condor-problems@wesleyan.edu .
Unix tutorial
Authoring Web Pages at Wesleyan
Last updated 08 December 2003
by Jolee West