The Mathematics and Statistics department owns a cluster of twelve identical Linux machines that are housed in Morse Hall, Room 218. The software on these machines is maintained and regularly updated by the Computing and Information Services. The twelve spice machines are served by a thirteenth Linux machine. Here's the list of their names (you need this information for remote connections):

• anise.sr.unh.edu
• caraway.sr.unh.edu
• catnip.sr.unh.edu
• cilantro.sr.unh.edu
• cinnamon.sr.unh.edu
• coriander.sr.unh.edu
• fennel.sr.unh.edu
• mustard.sr.unh.edu
• nutmeg.sr.unh.edu
• paprika.sr.unh.edu
• tarragon.sr.unh.edu
• thyme.sr.unh.edu
• SERVER: spicerack.sr.unh.edu (No logins allowed)

Faculty members, staff members, graduate students and guests of the Mathematics and Statistics department are eligible for accounts on spicerack. Undergraduate students registered in any computer-related course offered by the department, are also eligible for spicerack accounts for the duration of the course.

If you are eligible for a spicerack account but do not have one yet, then please contact The Spicemaster.

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The list of users allowed to log on to the spice machines is maintained on Spicerack. Your account name and password is the same as on cisunix. This also means that if you do not have a cisunix account, then you will not be able to log on to any of the spice machines.

If you have a spicerack account, then that is the account that you will find yourself in when you log on. The contents of your cisunix account will also be available at mountpoint /cishome/$USER/cisunix.

If you do not have a spicerack account, then you will find yourself in your cisunix account when you log on.

Cisunix email may be accessed from the spice machines. In keeping with CIS policy, pine has been configured on the spice machines to connect to your cisunix email through the IMAP protocol.

This also means that it will no longer be possible to receive email at the spicerack.sr.unh.edu addresses. In order to give you some time to notify your contacts of your new non-spicerack address, mail forwarding capability will be available for some time on spice. Just create a file named .forward in your home directory, containing your new email address in full e.g. john.doe@unh.edu. This will ensure that all incoming mail is redirected to the new address. As for the email already sitting in your spicerack inbox, contact The Spicemaster for a one-time retrieval.

• Never, never, never switch any spice machine off unless you see it belching smoke and screaming war chants!
• Never log onto the server, spicerack.
• Never use telnet, ftp, rsh or any similar program to connect into or out of any of the Spice machines.
• Use only ssh, scp or sftp to connect into or out of the Spice machines.
• Never lock the terminals.
• Always remove all core files from your accounts before logging out.
• Avoid storing bulky executables in your accounts.

• Logging on: Type ssh -X username@spiceMachineName
• Transferring files: Use the commands named scp or sftp. Type man scp and man sftp at the Linux/Unix prompt in order to learn how to use them.

• Logging on: Go the Research Computing Center webpage, click on Networking, then on Ssh Clients and download Putty. Use it. Keep in mind, however, that unless you have a program like XWin32, you shall not be able to run graphics applications remotely. Unfortunately, I don't know of any free version.
• Transferring files: Use the utility called WinSCP. Look at http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ for a description and a free copy.

Read this page carefully to check if you are doing everything properly. If the problem persists, then contact The Spicemaster.