ARCHIVED: Use ezreset on Webserve

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Note:

Due to the evolving coronavirus situation, the retirement of Webserve was delayed until April 16 to allow classes that reference sites on Webserve to continue with minimal disruption.

All remaining Webserve sites were disabled beginning April 16, along with login access to webserve.iu.edu. If you have websites that still need to be moved to IU Sitehosting, you should migrate immediately.

On Webserve, the ezreset command launches a script that backs up copies of your configuration files and replaces them with the versions that are included with new accounts. These configuration files control the appearance and behavior of programs such as Emacs, as well as the general environment of your account. If problems arise with these files, you can use ezreset to replace them with working copies.

On Webserve, some login files will prevent you from running Unix commands; for example, you may receive a "Command not found" error after entering a common command like ls or cd.
You may see an error when logging in:
stty: invalid argument 'new'
Try 'stty --help' for more information

To correct these errors:

Log into your Webserve account using SSH. For detailed instructions, see ARCHIVED: Publish to Webserve.
At the Unix prompt, enter:
```
/usr/local/bin/ezreset
```

After you run this utility, you will be able to use SSH on Webserve without receiving the error messages listed above.