help@envsci.rutgers.edu
Your Computer Support Personnel
Connecting to Cat5
- Host Names for Cat5
- jupyterlab: cat5.rutgers.edu
- x2go and ssh: cat5.des.rutgers.edu
- Cat5 Host Key Fingerprints
Jupyterlab via web browser
Connect to cat5.des.rutgers.edu with X2Go
- VPN needed from outside Rutgers networks. Service activation required.
- Video: connecting to Cat5 with X2Go
- download X2Go client
- X2Go documentation
- Mac computers need XQuartz
SSH to Cat5
- Use the Virtual Computer Labs. Run Xming and SSH (putty) to cat5.des.rutgers.edu
- On your windows PC, get and install Xming and Xming-fonts. SSH (putty) to cat5.des.rutgers.edu
- On your Mac computer, get and install XQuartz. SSH (terminal app) to cat5.des.rutgers.edu
- Use "-X" or "-Y" option as indicated on the ssh man pages
Previous Cat5 Documentation cat5 (host names and key hash fingerprints have changed)
- Connecting to Cat5 via X2Go from Windows (PDF)
- Connecting to Cat5 via X2Go from macOS (PDF)
- Connecting to Cat5 via SSH from Windows 10 (PDF)
- Connecting to Cat5 via SSH from macOS (PDF)
met_course environment
If you find your met_course environment has stopped working, issue the following five commands from a terminal in x2go:
pyenv shell system pyenv uninstall met_course pyenv virtualenv 3.13.5 met_course pyenv shell met_course pip install -r /opt/metenvs/requirements_met_course.txt
For the uninstall step, choose 'y' each time you are prompted.
jupyterlab via jupyterhub launch fail
From a x2go terminal:
jupyter lab clean rm -rf ~/.jupyter/lab/workspaces/ pkill -u $USER -f jupyter rm -rf ~/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/
check processes
pgrep -au $USER x2golistsessions
wrapper in .bashrc to put debug messages in user's home
jupyterhub-singleuser() {
command jupyterhub-singleuser "$@" --debug > "$HOME/jupyter_debug.log" 2>&1
}
export -f jupyterhub-singleuser


