Clyde system description

Contact Information

The primary system administrator for Clyde is Sylvain Robitaille. He is assisted by the rest of the Unix Group. Questions and problem reports about Clyde should be directed to the appropriate application address:

DNS: (hostmaster@concordia.ca).
Online directory ("ph"): (phadmin@concordia.ca).
Kerberos: (centralauth@concordia.ca).
Mailing lists: (majordomo-support@concordia.ca).
E-mail relay, including de-spamming and anti-virus scanning: (postmaster@concordia.ca).
Time: (ntpadm@concordia.ca).
Dial-in terminal servers: (macduf@concordia.ca).
Other remote access (wireless, HSE, CMAC): (neg@alcor.concordia.ca).
Routers and packetfiltering: (neg@alcor.concordia.ca).

System Specifications

Clyde is an HP AlphaServer DS25 6/1000 running the Unix operating system. The Unix software is version 5.1A of Compaq's Tru64 Unix. The machine has 2048 megabytes of memory and approximately 40 gigabytes of disk storage via a fibre-channel-attached Storage Area Network.

Software

Clyde offers the following services:

DNS (domain name service) via bind version 9
Kerberos component of "NetName" central authentication service
e-mail relay service via sendmail version 8, including de-spamming with SpamAssassin and Razor2, and anti-virus scanning using Sophos libSAVI and sophie.
mailing lists via Majordomo
high accuracy time service via xntp
regular time service
online directory service via qi/ph
terminal server logging, loading, and authorization
router logging and configuration
RADIUS authentication for HSE service

Most of the above services fall back to Newsflash in case of a Clyde failure. Please report any problems to the IITS Help Line (848-7613, or email to help@concordia.ca) and/or the help newsgroup (concordia.dept.iits.help).

Copyright, © 2004, Concordia University, Instructional and Information Technology Services (IITS). Author: Anne Bennett Credits: Chris Hodge Maintained by: webdoc@alcor.concordia.ca Last update: 2003/08/12 -- Sylvain Robitaille