Zoo | Yale University

The Zoo is a set of 38 Linux computers (named after animals) available for computer science students to work both in person and remotely.

26 machines are located on the 3rd floor of AKW and 12 more are in 17 Hillhouse room 111. Check the diagram below to see where each machine is located, which distro they are running (Fedora or Ubuntu), 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)
lpr filename: Print the given plain text file on zoo1
lpr -P zoo2 -K n filename: Print n copies of the given file on zoo2
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