Cosmos Base Notes

Document History

Updated: Simon Hood, 2002, November
Updated: Nicholas Blackaby, 2002 July
First version: Nicholas Blackaby, 2000 September

Introduction

This documentation gives basic system administration information for Cosmos, the ISD general purpose Unix machine.

• Diagnostics
• Maintenance Contract
• Hardware
• Console --- Rippon
• OS and System Software
• Network Details
• DNS Records
• File Systems
• Up and Down
• User Accounts, Passwords, Quotas, Authentication
• Backups
• Account Expiry and Archival
• Licenser Server
• Security