Before your students can use the submit### script with your course the following prerequisites must be met:

1. A course account must exist.
2. You need access to the course account.
3. Your students each need an account on our system.
4. A link must exist or be made for your course number so that submit### exists.

If any of the above items need to be set up please let me know well in advance of your first lab!

To create the dropboxes:

you@yourmachine:~$ ssh cs555@vnc

From the home of the course user look for any existing directories called “dropbox”, “Old” or “old”.

If a dropbox directory exists from a previous semester and a directory called “Old” or “old” exists, rename and move the dropbox into the this directory.1) Please rename it to dropbox-YYYY-[spring|fall]

cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$ mv ~/dropbox ~/Old/dropbox-2007-fall

Otherwise if a dropbox directory exists from a previous semester and a directory called “Old” or “old” does not exist, please create the directory ~/Old and then move and rename the dropbox as above.

cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$ mkdir ~/Old
cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$ mv ~/dropbox ~/Old/dropbox-2007-fall

Make a new dropbox with modification bits of 750

cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$ mkdir -m 750 ~/dropbox

Decend into the new dropbox cd ~/dropbox. Make a directory with permision set to 730 for each student (mkdir can take all the names in one go)

cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$ cd ~/dropbox
cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$ mkdir -m 730 frbaggin luskywal isnewton ajayer jostewar mifoucau stcolber jaderrid

Please take a moment to ensure group and permisions are set correctly, your dropbox directory should look something like this:

  cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$ ls -la    
  total 8
  drwxr-xr-x  15 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:20 .
  drwxr-x--x  15 cs555    asprey2     1024 Jan 29 09:16 ..
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:20 ajayer
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:19 frbaggin
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:19 isnewton
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:20 jaderrid
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:20 jostewar
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:19 luskywal
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:20 mifoucau
  drwx-wx-wx   2 cs555    asprey2      512 Jan 29 09:20 stcolber
  cs555@vnc:~/dropbox$

Check that the permisions on the directory itself and on the student dropboxes match these. If they do not use chmod to correct them:

 chmod 755 ~/dropbox
 chmod 733 ~/dropbox/*
 

Finaly, with the exception of cs101, check that the group is set to asprey22), if not fix that with chgrp:

chgrp -R asprey2 ~/dropbox