Logging into Zoo
You can access the new account via "telnet" to zoo.uvm.edu and logging in with your Moose username and your new Zoo password. All your files on Moose will be available and the environment is virtually identical.
NOTE:
For reasons we do not fully understand, zoo (gnu) sometimes
fails to recognize passwords when moose is under very heavy
load. If this happens to you, wait a few minutes and try
again. IBM and our systems programmers are hard at work
trying to solve this problem.
Your Zoo password
Your initial Zoo account password is the last seven digits of your barcode. It is recommended that you change your password upon your first login. It is perfectly acceptable to use the same password you used to use on Moose. The command to change your password is simply: passwd
For example:
[telnet to zoo.uvm.edu]
AIX Version 4
...
login: acntname [same account name as on Moose]
acntname 's Password: [last 7 digits of your id "bar code"]
acntname@gnu.uvm.edu> [note prompt, which shows which hostname]
acntname@gnu.uvm.edu> passwd [command to change password]
old password: [last 7 digits of your id "bar code"]
new password: [same as moose password if you want]
reenter new password: [to guard against typing errors]
How Zoo works
Zoo uses IBM's new Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) software which provides a "single system image" for multiple computers. With DCE when new computers are added, it is not necessary to have separate systems, separate files, separate accounts, separate passwords, etc. Both IBM and UVM have tested the software as thoroughly as is practical. However, as with any new system, there are risks of both performance and reliability problems. Should there be a problem with Zoo, your Moose account still exists and any changes you make to your files using Zoo will be reflected on Moose.
Your email address
Your moose email address will continue to work on Zoo. However, it is recommended that you change your address to Zoo, including any setting you have in the UVM email directory (known both as "PH" and "CSO").
** DO NOT FORWARD YOUR EMAIL FROM MOOSE TO ZOO **
It is not necessary and since Moose and Zoo share the same spool system, this will create an email loop.
Desktop email
We highly recommend the use of desktop email (POP and IMAP) systems such as Eudora, Netscape and PC-PINE. Folks on the campus network who have been moved to Zoo are expected not to routinely use PINE on zoo. If you have not converted to a desktop mailer for on-campus email, please do so now. Contact the helpline if you need help in making the switch. If you are already using one of these systems with Moose, you should change the following settings:
SMTP server: smtp.uvm.edu
POP or IMAP account: acntname@zoo.uvm.edu
your email address: acntname@zoo.uvm.edu
(where acntname is the name of your account on Moose/Zoo)
Dial-up access:
To access Zoo via modem, connect to the UVM dial-up menu as usual, specify option 8 (Other hosts) and type zoo at the prompt:
dial 658-5004 per usual
select 8 on the menu (other hosts)
type zoo as the host name
We thank you for your patience through this procedure.