The Zoo

The Zoo is a set of Linux computers (named after animals) available for computer science students to work both in person and remotely.

Machines are located on the 3rd floor of AKW, in 17 Hillhouse room 111, and remotely. Check the diagram below to see where each machine is located, which distro they are running, and which ones are currently available (green) or offline (red).

The Zoo facilities are maintained by ITS. If you have issues using the Zoo you can click here to submit a support ticket.
If you are requesting installation of new software you should first discuss it with a faculty member and they can submit a ticket on your behalf.

Useful Commands

ssh trb46@frog.zoo.cs.yale.edu

Open a shell for trb46 on frog

ssh trb46@node.zoo.cs.yale.edu

Open a shell on an arbitrary zoo node
(might lead to an offline node if there are any)

finger trb46

Get info about the user trb46

getent passwd trb46

Compressed form of finger

w

Find out who's on your machine

write trb46 pts/4

Send a message to trb46 on tty pts/4

Nodes in AKW 3rd floor

bumblebee

cardinal

chameleon

cobra

cricket

dolphin

Nodes in 17 Hillhouse Room 111

frog

gator

giraffe

grizzly

hawk

hippo

hornet

kangaroo

ladybug

lion

monkey

newt

Headless nodes available over SSH only

peacock

perch

rattlesnake

raven

rhino

scorpion

swan

termite

tick

tiger

turtle

viper

woodpecker

zebra