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• US-CERT Advisory on Unpatched Microsoft Word Vulnerability
  US-CERT has issued an advisory for users of Microsoft Word
• Can't Open Attachments in Outlook Express
  How to alter the Outlook Express security settings to permit opening of attachments
• How Do I Change My WAM or Glue Password?
  How to change your WAM or GLUE password, or have it reset for you
• How to Apply for a WAM / Glue account
  How to apply for a WAM/GLUE account online or in person
• How to Set up the Mail Application in OS X 10.4 to Read E-mail on OIT Systems
  Use the OS X Tiger Mail Application to read e-mail
• How to fix the "Message is no longer available on the server" error in Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x
  If you receive a new e-mail message but cannot read it because of the error "Message is not available on the server," you can fix the problem with these instructions.
• Locations and Operating Hours for the Computer Labs
  This page links to the web page on the OIT website that contains the current computer lab schedules.
• Mail Filtering with Outlook 2003
  Instructions on configuring Outlook 2003 to filter incoming or outgoing e-mail.
• Open Relaying Background
  This page provides information on open relay why it is caused, problems and solutions to it
• Outlook XP and Outlook 2003 Mail Setup
  Configuring Outlook XP or Outlook 2003 to read mail at the University of Maryland
• Publishing Web Pages On WAM/Glue Accounts
  This page provides information how to publish web page on WAM/Glue acounts. It also provides information to tools and resources available on campus to create webpages. It gives instruction on how to setup the webpage too.
• Setting up Mozilla to Access Your University E-Mail Account
  Use the Mozilla e-mail client to read your mail
• Transferring E-mail From Your Old E-mail Account To Mail@umd Or To Your Hard Drive
  Transferring Email from your Old Email Account to Mail@umd or to Your Hard Drive
• Using E-mail From Home
  How to set up your home computer to read your University of Maryland e-mail account.
• View Message Size in Entourage
  Set Entourage to show the size of each message
• View Message Size with OS X Mail
  How to set the Mail application to show the size of each message
• Viewing Message Sizes With SeaMonkey And Thunderbird
  How to set Mozilla and Thunderbird to show the size of each message
• What Does a WAM Account Offer?
  Information about WAM account offerings.
• What is My Initial WAM/GLUE Username and Password?
  What your initial username and password are when you first use your WAM/GLUE account
• Your @umd.edu E-mail Address
  Updating the address where mail sent to your @umd.edu address is delivered
• AFS Access Control Lists on Wam
  This page provides information about the Access Control list under AFS. It has information aobu the Unix owner permissions.
• Acceptable Addresses for WAM / Glue E-mail
  This page outlines the acceptable format for e-mail addresses in regards to the WAM or Glue systems.
• Accessing Remote AFS cells Mounted Under /afs
  This page provides information about how to access to remove AFS cells mounted under /afs.
• Accessing the Floppy and CD-ROM Drives on the Sun Station
  This page provides information on how to access the floppy an CD-ROM drives on the sun machines.
• Aliases
  This page provides information about aliases. Aliases are a way of substituting a command for another command, a command with arguments, or for multiple commands.
• An Overview of Unix Systems
  This page gives information about the unix systems.
• Backup to your WAM Account
  How to backup your important files regularly to your WAM Account.
• Basic Unix Commands
  This page provides information about the Basic Unix Commands. Commands such as cd, mkdir, rmdir, pwd, mv,cp,cat, more are explained in this page
• Change In Password Authentication For WAM And Glue
  Explanation of the change in password authentication from the local WAM/Glue password database to the Kerberos V database (the same password as the UM Directory).
• Changes to WAM/Glue/Deans Backup Schedules
  Changes to WAM/Glue/Deans Backup Schedules effective March 30 and April 1.
• Changing Stored E-mail Passwords
  How to change your stored password in the various e-mail clients.
• Changing Your Finger Information
  This page provides information on how to change your finger information. It gives instruction on changing the finger information on WAM and Glue accounts.
• ClamAV Notification Message (Virus Found)
  This is the explanation of the message you receive when ClamAV has found and deleted an infected attachment.
• Common Variables In The Unix OS Shell
  This page gives a listing of some common variables that are using in the unix os shell. It also explains the variables.
• Compiler Problems in Unix
  This page provides information on compiler problems in unix. It gives informaiton linking with the Math library, undefined symbol error, segmentation fault errors in compilers, strange errrors after a program has compiled and bad magic numbers
• Configurations Of Browsers On WAM And Glue
  Configuration (files) of browsers on your WAM/Glue account
• Configure the Mac OS X Terminal Application
  Configuring the Terminal program in Mac OS X for WAM, Glue and Deans
• Configuring Microsoft Entourage 2004 for WAM or Glue
  Use the Microsoft mail client with WAM, Glue or Deans
• Configuring Microsoft Entourage 2008 For WAM or Glue
  How to configure Entourage 2008 on the Mac to read mail from the WAM or Glue system.
• Confirming SPAMmers using the ACCESS file
  This page explains how to check whether a site is in the ACCESS file.
• Considerations when running processes in the background on WAM/Glue when not logged on
  Considerations when running processes in the background on WAM/Glue when not logged on
• Correcting SSL Certificate Errors On The WAM And Glue E-Mail Servers
  How to install the University's root certificate
• Corrupted Mailboxes On Unix
  This explains how and when to run the fixmail program on WAM/Glue
• Creating and Administering groups in WAM
  This page provides information how to create groups and adminstrer them.
• Dash Menu Information on the Sun Machine
  This page provides information about the dash menu on the sun machines. It has information on using the tap applications too.
• Dealing With A Read-only Inbox On WAM Or Glue
  This page provides information on how to fix problems when there is Read only inbox on the WAM or Glue account. It has step by step instructions to resolve the problem as well as explanations why it causes it.
• Deleted a File in Unix with a Problem Filename
  This page provides information on how to delete a file when the file name gets corrupted. This page has information on how to remove these files using wildcards.
• Designators and Modifiers
  This page provides information about Designators and Modifiers.
• Disabled WAM/Glue Accounts
  This page contains information about disabled WAM and Glue accounts.
• Displaying X Windows Applications On Remote Systems
  Tips on how to be able to display X Windows applications on remote systems
• Downloading and Installing F-Secure SSH for Windows
  This page explains how to download and install the F-Secure SSH Telnet and FTP client for Windows systems.
• Downloading and Installing Fugu 1.2.x
  Use Fugu for secure file transfer
• Error Messages In WAM Or Glue Accounts
  This page provides information about the error messages that you get in your WAM or Glue account. It gives explanation why these error messages appear on the screen
• Examples of Designators in Unix
  This page gives a listing of examples of designators used in Unix. Designators are used following a selector and a colon
• Examples of Using Wild Cards in Unix
  This page provides examples in using wild cards in Unix. It explains how wild cards are used.
• Examples of the Modifiers in Unix
  This page provides information on Modifiers in Unix. It also provides examples with the Modifiers.
• File Transfer With WS_FTP
  WS FTP is no longer recommended. We now recommend F-Secure for Windows
• Filtering Incoming E-mail on WAM / Glue using Procmail
  This page explains how to use the procmail program to filter your incoming e-mail.
• Filtering Messages With The E-mail Client
  Use your mail client's filtering feature with the Junk Mail Analyzer
• Finding Software on OIT Unix Systems
  This explains how to find information on software available on WAM or Glue.
• Forwarding Mail on WAM/Glue
  Explains how to forward your email to a different email address from your account.
• General Information On E-mail
  This page provides information about Email. It gives information on how to setup email and how to apply for an wam account.
• General Systems Overview
  Describes various OIT systems and the functions that they perform
• General information on Unix editors
  This page provides general information on Unix editors. It discusses about pico, vi and emacs.
• Getting Help in a UNIX System
  This page provides information how about how to get help in the Unix system. The man pages in Unix are very helpful
• Getting Started With Your WAM, Glue or GRACE Unix Account
  General information on getting started using a Unix shell account in the WAM or Glue (incl. GRACE) environment.
• Getting Started with Webmail for Glue and WAM
  How to use the web client for Glue and WAM
• Granting/Restriciting AFS Access to a Directory
  This page provides information about how to restric AFS access to diretories. It has instruction on how to grant or remove these access permission on the directories.
• History lists
  This page provides information about history list.
• How To Change Your Window Manager On WAM Or Glue
  A windows manager is program which controls layout and the look and feel of the X-Windows session. This document explains how to change the window manager you are using on the WAM/Glue systems.
• How To Clear Browser Cache Stored On WAM Or Glue Account
  How to clear cache (delete cache files) stored by various browsers of various versions; Netscape, Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, used in the WAM or OWL labs.
• How To Configure Pine To Read And Post Usenet News
  How to set up Pine to read and post to usenet newsgroups.
• How To Download And Display Images On The OIT Unix Systems
  How To Download And Display Images On The OIT Unix Systems
• How To Enable Receiving Messages On WAM (Zephyr)
  The following page explains how to enable messages on WAM so that you can receive messages through the Zephyr system. Once enable people can zwrite you.
• How To Read Usenet Newsgroups
  UNIX News: How to read Usenet news - Newsreader information
• How To Transfer Files To and From Unix
  This page describes how to use the sftp program in unix to transfer files between machines.
• How To Use The F-Secure SSH FTP Client
  This page will give you basic instructions on how to use the F-Secure SSH FTP client to upload and download files from a remote system.
• How do I access the Unix shell in my WAM / Glue Account?
  How to access the UNIX shell in a WAM/GLUE account
• How pine handles Email files on WAM/Glue
  Information on how pine handles mailbox files on WAM/Glue.
• How to Apply for a New Account or Password Change in WAM
  This page has information on how to apply for a new wam account and also how to change a forgotten wam password.
• How to Find Your Own IP Address
  Find your IP address in Windows, Mac OS, or Unix
• How to Set Up Mail Aliases in Berkeley Mail
  Explains how to set up mail aliases in Berkeley mail.
• How to Set Up the Mail Application in OS X 10.3 to Read E-mail on OIT Systems
  Use the built-in Mail Application to read e-mail
• How to Use the F-Secure SSH Client
  This page will give you basic instructions on how to use the F-Secure SSH Telnet client.
• How to get a Temporary WAM Account
  How to obtain a temporary WAM account
• How to post news on WAM and Glue
  How to post news on WAM and Glue
• How to print from Pine on the WAM system
  This page explains how to print from Pine when you are on a WAM Lab computer.
• How to print in Unix
  This Page has various links to printing on unix. It discusses about how to print from a WAM or GLUE account.
• How to read and post Usenet news items from Pine
  Explains how to read and post news items with pine.
• How to use renice to run a process in the background
  How to use renice to run an already running process in the background before logging off WAM/GLUE
• How to use the nice command
  How to use the nice command to run processes in the background while logged into WAM/GLUE
• Information On Accessing E-mail During An Emergency
  Information on accessing e-mail during an emergency (pandemic, etc.)
• Information On How To Reclaim Disk Space On UNIX Systems
  How to reclaim disk space on a UNIX system
• Information On Newsgroups
  This provides information about newsgroups, newsgroups that university Maryland provides and how to read newsgroups
• Information On The WAM / Glue Consolidation
  General information regarding the consolidation of WAM and Glue accounts
• Information on news kill files
  Information on news kill files
• Input and Output Redirection
  This page provides information on how input and output redirection can be used.
• Installing Star Office in Wam/Glue
  This page provides information on how to install Star Office in Wam or Glue accounts.
• Installing and Configuring OpenAFS With Kerberos for Macintosh
  How to install & configure Mac OSX OpenAFS to work with Kerberos
• Introduction to FVWM
  This page provides information on FVWM, the defualt manager for the Sun's in the lab. It discusses about defaults and .fwwm2rc File.
• Introduction to Unix Communication Tools
  This page provides information on how to use unix as communication tool. It has information about logging in remotely, transferring files with FTP, electornic mail, communcation in real time etc.
• Introduction to the Unix Shells
  This page provides information about the unix shell. It expalins about wild cards, aliases, shell, input and output, pipes, jobs and job control, history list and designators and modifiers
• Jobs and Job Control
  This page provides information about job and job control. A job is a program which has been started from the command line of unix.
• Keyboard Shortcuts on Sun Stations in Wam Labs
  This page provides information about the key shortcuts that are available in the Sun stations in the wam labs.
• Known Issues with the VPN Client
  This page provides information about issues that are known with the VPN Client
• Leftover Pine, Mozilla Lock Files
  Explains how to remove Pine, Thunderbird and Outlook Express lock files from your WAM or Glue account.
• Local mass mailings
  This document explains why mass mailings are rejected when mailed from/to WAM/Glue.
• Logging On/Off Win NT machines in the Wam Labs
  This page provides information on how to log on or log off the Win NT machines that are available in the Wam Labs.
• Logging off the Sun machines
  This page provides information about how to log off the sun machine.
• Lost and Found Locations
  This page describes where the Lost and Found locations are in the WAM computer labs.
• Mail Filtering with Outlook XP
  Using Outlook XP's mail filter
• Mail in Unix
  This page provides information about Mail in unix. It has informaiton on configuring mail, addressing mail to machines that are not on the internet and ohter commands.
• Making finger information available in WAM/GLUE
  This page provides information on how to make finger information available on .plan file
• Mathematica Font Configuration
  A page that explains how to enable support for Mathematica fonts when running Mathematica remotely using X-Windows.
• Modules For The FVWM2 Window Manager
  This page provides informaiton about the FVWM Modules on the Sun staion in the wam labs. It has informaiton about icon manager, button-bar, identity, auto raise, pager, winlist etc.
• New Defaults in Wam Accounts and X-Window Settings
  This page explains about newdefaults. It also gives instructions how to install new defaults. It has brief description of the files that are used fo new default.
• Occurrence of Open Relay Problem
  This page provides information on how to find out if you have a relaying problem or not.
• Online Services Available to Students
  This page describes the online services availible to students.
• Over Quota on WAM/Glue
  Information on what to do if you are over quota on WAM/Glue.
• Parts of the UNIX System
  This page provides information on parts of the UNIX system. It has information about the Kernel, unix file systems, Groups, ownerships etc.
• Password protecting a Web Page
  This page provides information how to password protect your Web Page in WAM/GLUE accounts. It can be accessed through wam login id and passwords.
• Password protecting a Web Page using a Password Database
  This page provides information on how to password protect a directory with a password database. Instructions are given how to create the database and how to implement it.
• Pipes
  This provides information on using pipes in unix
• Printers Available on WAM
  A list of the printers available on WAM.
• Printing From a WAM Computer
  How to print from a WAM PC, Mac or Unix workstation
• Printing On A WAM/Glue Sun/Linux Workstation
  This page provides information on how to print on a WAM/Glue Sun or Linux machine; also printing from application on the Dash menu.
• Printing or Capturing the Output of a Program in Unix
  This page provides information about how to capture screen output using commans such as script.
• Problem with Open Relaying
  This page provides information and explains the problem with open relaying.
• Problems receiving Mail in Wam
  This page provides information on steps to take if there are problems receiving Mail.
• Problems with .rhost files in AFS
  This page provides information about .rhost file and why it doesn't work anymore
• Processes under Unix
  This page provides information about process in unix and how they are started. Each program running on a Unix machine exists as a process within the operating system.
• Protecting Access to a Web Page by IP address
  This page gives instruction on how to restrict access to WAM web pages by IP address.
• Reading Usenet News From WAM, Glue, or GRACE
  How to read Usenet news from the OIT Unix systems
• Reading Usenet News on Unix Systems
  Downloadable document set
• Received mail from admin@wam or admin@glue?
  Information pertaining to the hoax mails sent to many e-mail accounts here at the University
• Removing Leftover AFS locks in Wam
  Tells how to remove the AFS lock files (.__afsxxx) that may appear in your WAM/Glue account.
• Ruptime and Rwho Replacements on Sun
  This page provides information about how to find whose online on the machine and status of the racs.
• SSH Gateway on the Web
  Make an SSH connection via your web browser
• Securing Email Connections in Entourage
  How to configure Entourage to handle secure mail connections.
• Securing Email Connections in Mail
  How top configure Apple's Mail program to connect securely.
• Securing Email Connections in Thunderbird
  How to configure Thunderbird to handle secure email connections.
• Securing Email connections in Outlook Express
  How to configure Outlook Express to handle email securely.
• Securing Mail Connections in Outlook2000
  How to configure Outlook2000 for secure mail connections.
• Securing Mail Connections in Outlook2003
  How to configure Outlook2003 to securely handle mail connections.
• Services for Students, Faculty, and Staff With Disabilities
  This page covers the available computer resources for students, facult, and staff with disabilities.
• Setting the Terminal Type and Backspace Key, Resizing the screen in Unix
  This page provides information on how to set the terminal type, resize the screen or set the backspace key.
• Solution to Open Relay
  This page provides information how to solve the problem of open relay.
• Sound on the Sun Stations
  This page provides information about the sound cards in the sun station in the wam labs.
• Supporting information on running processes in the background on WAM/Glue
  Supporting information on running processes in the background on WAM/Glue
• System Monitoring Commands
  Information on the Unix commands tail, top, and w.
• The Kernel in the Unix System
  This page provies information about the kernel in the unix system.
• The Unix File System
  This page provides information about the unix file system. It discusses about the inode number and file name.
• The WAM/Glue Mail Access File
  Information on the mail access file that sendmail uses to filter out potential spammers.
• The not Login Shell Message in Unix
  This page give information on why a user gets Not login shell messages when logging into the unix account. It also explain how to resolve it and kill the process.
• The xqpr window
  This is a screen shot of the xqpr window. This software is used when printing from a unix workstation.
• Transferring Files with SFTP or SCP
  General information on using secure ftp (sftp) and secure copy (scp)
• Turning Off Wild Card Expanison in Unix
  This page gives information how to turn off wild card expansion. This page has several ways of turning the wild card expansion off
• Turning Off the Windows XP Firewall
  How to disable the Windows XP Firewall completely.
• UNIX News: How to Create a newsgroup
  UNIX News: How to Create a newsgroup
• UNIX: Guide To The AFS
  UNIX: Guide To The AFS
• UNIX: How To Change Your Window Manager To The Motif Window Manager (mwm)
  UNIX: How To Change Your Window Manager To The Motif Window Manager (mwm)
• UNIX: How To Deal With Filenames Containing Unprintable/Special Characters
  UNIX: How To Deal With Filenames Containing Unprintable/Special Characters
• UNIX: How To Transfer Files Between Systems
  UNIX: How To Transfer Files Between Systems
• UNIX: Using mpage to print multiple pages on one piece of paper
  UNIX: Using mpage to print multiple pages on one piece of paper
• UNIX: Using Zephyr on Glue and WAM
  UNIX: Using Zephyr on Glue and WAM
• Unix Editing Commands
  Information on the Unix commands emacs, pico, vim, and joe.
• Unix File Management Commands
  Information on Unix commands cp, ln, mv, and rm.
• Unix File Modes
  This page provides information about the unix file modes. Each file in the unix file system has a file mode associated with it.
• Unix Networking Utilites
  Various networking utilities found on the UNIX systems and their commands
• Unix: What Are All These Dotfiles In My Glue / WAM Account For?
  Information on Unix hidden (dot) files
• Use SSH with Terminal
  How to use ssh from the Mac OS X Terminal application to connect to remote hosts
• Users, Groups and File Ownership in Unix
  This page provides information about Users, Groups and File ownership. It discusses about how the priviledges are set for the users.
• Using Fugu to Transfer Files with SFTP in Mac OS X
  Secure FTP client
• Using Mac X11 for Graphical Applications
  Use the X-Windows Application to make a secure connection
• Using The VPN 3000 Client For MAC OS X
  This page provides informaiton on how to use the VPN client for MAC OS X. It explains how to download, install, configure and use the client.
• Using The WAM Macintosh Workstations
  How to use the WAM Macintosh workstations
• Using Transmit 3.6 For SFTP in MAC OS X
  This page provides information no how to use Transmit for FTP. It has links to download the Transmit and gives step by step instruction on how to FTP files using Transmit
• Using WAM Windows 2000 PC Workstations
  General information on using the WAM PC (Windows) workstations
• Using X11 to SSH to WAM, Glue and DEANS
  Use the Mac X11 application to make an SSH connection
• Using the Emacs Text Editor
  General info on using the emacs text editor.
• Using the Pico Text Editor
  How to use the Pico text editor
• Using the Unix Mail Program
  General information on how to use the Unix Mail (mail, mailx) application
• Using the Unix Vacation Program with WAM or Glue
  Use the vacation auto-responder to reply to messages that sent to your WAM or Glue account
• Using the Vi Text Editor
  General information on how to use the 'vi' editor
• Variables in Unix
  This page provides information about variables in unix. There are two types of variables, shell and envirnoment.
• Virtual Desktops on FVWM
  This page provides information about the virtual desktops on FVWM in the sun station of the wam labs. It also discusses about navigating multiple desktops, paging and sticky windows.
• Virus Filtering For WAM & Glue E-mail
  A description of the anti-virus filtering software for the WAM & Glue e-mail systems. Software is ClamAV; website at http://www.clamav.net
• WAM / Glue Consolidation Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  Frequently asked questions pertaining to the WAM/Glue merger/consolidation.
• WAM News
  
• WAM Windows Environment
  This page provides information about the envirnoment on the Win NT machines in the WAM lab. It gives information about accessing your home directory, files in UNIX vs NT, profile , drive and directory structure.
• WAM: Definition
  Basic definition of what the WAM system is and what it can do
• WAM: Note on Graduate Student Status
  What is required to be considered on active status as a graduate student in order to be eligible for a WAM account
• Wam User Directory Organization
  This page provides information about the user's wam account directory is organized. It discusses about login, mail, backup directories.
• What are Wild Cards?
  This page provides information about wild cards. Wild cards are used to specify files using a pattern.
• What to do when Berkeley Mail "locks up"?
  This document explains the situation in which you have typed too much on one line using Berkeley Mail.
• Who Can Get a WAM / Glue Account?
  Lists members of the University community who are eligible for a WAM/GLUE account
• Window Properties in FVWM
  This page provides information about the windows properties in the FVWM on the sun stations. It discusses about window operations, scrolling and changing windows
• How to Set up Eudora 6.2 for WAM / Glue
  on Mac OS X
• How to Set up Eudora 6.2 for WAM / Glue
  on Windows