Rules of Conduct:

Information:

Accounts perstist for the entirety of your studies here. If you get your account in one semester it will still be there in later semesters.
The Rechnerbetriebsgruppe (RBG) of the Instituts für Informatik provides and maintains a standard configuration for the graphical user interface and the console environment. If after careful study of the manuals you decide to make your own interface you are on your own and the RBG is no longer responsible.
Important Mailaddress:
For technical problems: rbg@ifi.lmu.de
Upon leaving a workstation you are to make sure to logout and leave the screen switched on showing a login screen.
Follow the instructions of the RBG employees. You are required to present your student ID upon request.
The user accounts have print- and diskquotas:

Generally use of computers

More infos about

compute jobs

Diskquotas:

Every user account has 75GB diskquota in its homedir. This can be exceeded up to a total of 150GB for short durations. These limits are automatically enforced by the system. If you need more space contact the RBG.
For fast local diskspace use /tmp and for big temporary files use /big.
The RBG takes care to regularily backup the homedir. This backup exists in case of harddrive (or other hardware) failiure. It is not intended to restore carelessly deleted files of individual students. You are resposible for your files. We do not make any guranties regarding the backups. Therefore we recommend that you put important files into our version control systems like svn and git or make regular backups of them yourself.

Printquotas:

Every user can print 600 DIN A4 pages per semester on the laserprinters free of charge. One page from the color laserprinters counts as 3 pages in black and white. This is financed by the institute. After this quota is exhausted you can buy additional quota in 100 page increments. For further infos look here.

What to do with a problem?

Analyse your problem and try to localise it! Read the FAQ and the man pages!
Ask a fellow student. As a next step for questions related to your courses ask your tutor.
In case of important questions specific to the systems or if you found a system fault or just forgot your password come to our consultation hours.
Otherwise: Mail at rbg@ifi.lmu.de

What is forbidden?

It is forbidden to eat or smoke in the rooms. In the interest of all working students please keep the noise as low as possible. Leave the workstation clean and tidy. Leftover paper will be tossed in the trash without warning.
Do not use open drink containers at the workstations.
Do not switch off the workstations because of remote administration and unwritten buffers.
Do not abuse accounts and data of fellow students.
Do not block workstations if you are away for longer periods of time. Please logout. Do not use workstations for non-study activities if they are needed otherwise.
Keep your network trafic as low as possible.
The provided workstations and the access to national and international networks may only be used for tasks related to research, teaching and study. You are required to use the computers and networks responsible and carefully. Missuse of network resources e.g. access and dissemination of extremist views, pornography etc. is forbidden and will be prosecuted.
Do not use machines with dedicated tasks for other purposes (remotecluster, webserver)