Setting up your System

1. Setting up your System Contents • Required Software • Flip and flop servers at OSU • Using WinSCP • Using Putty • Using ssh, scp from Linux terminal

2. Required Software • This course requires Linux shell for all the assignments. • With MacOS and Linux, the shell is in-built • For Windows OS use • WinSCP/Cyberduck: Transfer files via SCP, FTP • Putty: Free terminal client • Other frequently used software – Cygwin, virtual box, cyberduck (file transfer tool for Mac and Windows). • Perl required for assignment 2 only. Instructions to install will be given in the assignment page. • SVN Tools for code hosting (Windows users can use Tortoise SVN)

3. Flip and flop servers • Flip (flip.engr.oregonstate.edu) – a Linux terminal server at OSU. • Accessible from anywhere using a SSH client. • Flop (flop.engr.oregonstate.edu) – Linux terminal server at OSU. • Accessible from anywhere using a SSH client. • Other servers at OSU • access.engr.oregonstate.edu (both flip and flop connect to this) • Shell.onid.oregonstate.edu • All these servers uses your ENGR credentials except for shell.onid.

4. Using WinSCP • Free software (only for Windows) for file transfer via SCP, FTP, SFTP. • To transfer files to the flip server

5. Files can be transferred by drag and drop. • Software also features a basic linux terminal which executes the commands in the server.

6. Using Putty

7. Using ssh from terminal • Ssh command is in-built in the linux terminal • It can be used to connect to a server remotely via terminal • Usage: ssh username@serveraddr • Example: mohanni@flop.engr.oregonstate.edu

8. Using scp • Scp is to securely copy files from local machine to server directory and vice versa. • Usage: scp path-to-file username@server:/path-to-file (for transferring file from local to server) • Example: scp /home/Desktop/file1 mohanni@flop.engr.oregonstate.edu:~/Files/