= Some MIT/AFS terminology =
'''locker'''::
- For practical purposes, a folder. Probably the what you'll care about most of the time. Technically any directory mountable under /mit, regardless of how its stored. Today, most lockers (possibly all) lockers are stored in AFS.
+ For practical purposes, a folder. Probably the what you'll care about most of the time. Technically any directory mountable under /mit, regardless of how its stored. Today, most lockers lockers are stored in AFS.
'''tokens'''::
Essentially proof to the AFS servers that you are who you say you are, thus allowing you to access files you are supposed to. Analogous to Kerberos tickets.
=== From Athena ===
-On Athena you can access a locker either as its full AFS path, if you know it ( e.g. /afs/athena.mit.edu/course/6/6.01 ) or under {{{/mit}}} if it is "attached." Yet a third way is to use tilde expansion and simply {{{ cd ~<locker> }}} (e.g. {{{cd ~6.01}}}) which will take you to the full path. Often, however, you want to attach lockers because it is easier to refer to them outside of the shell (in a script, for example) and software is set-up to run with a path under {{{/mit}}}. There are a few ways to attach a locker:
+On Athena you can access a locker either as its full AFS path, if you know it ( e.g. /afs/athena.mit.edu/course/6/6.01 ) or under {{{/mit}}} if it is "attached." Yet a third way is to use tilde expansion and simply {{{ cd ~~<locker> }}} (e.g. {{{cd ~~6.01}}}) which will take you to the full path. Often, however, you want to attach lockers because it is easier to refer to them outside of the shell (in a script, for example) and software is set-up to run with a path under {{{/mit}}}. There are a few ways to attach a locker:
* If you are running on a [http://debathena.mit.edu Debathena] machine, such as [http://linerva.mit.edu linerva.mit.edu], then simply {{{cd /mit/<locker>}}} and it will be auto-attached.
* If you are on another Athena machine and don't want to run software out of the locker, than simply type {{{attach <locker>}}} and then `cd` to it.
=== From the Web ===
-Generally any locker that you would access on Athena as {{{/mit/<locker>}}} is accessible on the web as {{{{http://web.mit.edu/<locker>}}}. For example, the barnowl locker is at [http://web.mit.edu/barnowl]. As you can see, if there is no index.html (see below), the files in the directory are listed. By default, however, none of the contents are readable except in the `www` and `Public` folders.
+Generally any locker that you would access on Athena as {{{/mit/<locker>}}} is accessible on the web as {{{http://web.mit.edu/<locker>}}}. For example, the barnowl locker is at [http://web.mit.edu/barnowl]. As you can see, if there is no index.html (see below), the files in the directory are listed. By default, however, none of the contents are readable except in the `www` and `Public` folders.
Also, you may access something in one of the MIT AFS cells by taking its full AFS path after web.mit.edu ([http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/c/chess-club]). (That link also shows that if you have a text file named README readable, as a link to Public/README for example, its contents will be displayed below the directory listing).
and then doing a {{{ln -s www/redirect.html index.html}}} in the top level of the locker. Alternatively you can link index.html to a blank file in your `Public` or `www` (you can't simply it in the top level because its not readable there, this will result in a 403 Forbidden error).
=== It was around 6am on a Sunday morning and suddenly I couldn't access my files ===
-Yea, IS&T restarts the AFS servers weekly around 6am.
+Yeah, most AFS servers restart weekly at 6 AM on Sunday.
=== It isn't Sunday and I can't get to my files ===
There may be a non-scheduled AFS outage. Check [http://3down.mit.edu 3down], hopefully it will be back up soon :-(.
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