HELPDESKCentral Unix system
The central Unix systems provide a variety of services to users on campus, including a well-tried and tested electronic mail service for those who do not have such a facility in their faculty or department..
- The service is available to any member of staff or postgraduate student of the University of Glasgow.
- There is no charge for basic use, e.g. electronic mail. Use of any applications software may be chargeable.
- There is a default free filestore allocation of 10 Mb for staff, 5 Mb for postgraduate students and 2.5 Mb for undergraduate students.
- Additional filestore is available for rental at £2.00 per megabyte per academic year.
Registration
These are also available from IT Services Administration Front Desk.
About
Unix is a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system with many useful facilities. It can be run on numerous different types of computer system and provides a powerful and flexible computing environment in which to work. .
The central Unix systems comprise a number of general-purpose servers that are connected together to form the Unix Distributed Computing Facility (UDCF) as well as being connected to the campus backbone network.
Within UDCF the general log-in and IT services are provided by a Quad CPU SPARC server1000 known as lenzie.
Additional Sun SPARC stations provide transparent access to services such as electronic mail, DNS and the WWW
Contact details
Help Desk
IT Services
(0141 330) x4800
