UC Davis Information & Educational Technology

UNIX and Linux Consulting

Information and Educational Technology provides UNIX and Linux systems administration services and technical support on a cost recovery basis. UNIX programming services for development and coding of small to medium applications are also available on a cost recovery basis.
Hourly Recharge Rate: $77.50
Contact Information:
Desktop Support Services (DES)
<desktop@ucdavis.edu>

(530) 757-8907
System Administration services include:
  • Operating system installation and configuration, including utilities such as NFS and NIS
  • Operating system patches
  • Operating system upgrades
  • Backup configuration, including installation of vendor software products such as Amanda, Netbackup, Legato
  • Software installation of vendor software as requested and freeware software, including compilers, GNU software, Acrobat, Apache, AFS, Samba
  • Electronic mail configuration, including sendmail, POP/IMAP server software
  • Security configuration and installation of security software, including ssh, HIDE, DistAuth, SSL web based encryption or other software as requested
  • Other services as requested
Operating systems supported are:
  • Sun Microsystems SunOS/Solaris
  • Silicon Graphics IRIX
  • Hewlett Packard HP-UX
  • Digital UNIX/Tru64
  • Linux variants
  • Mac OS X
Campus clients include:
  • Cashiers Office
  • Civil Engineering
  • Center for Neuroscience
  • NMR Facility
  • Rowe Program in Genetics
  • VM: Anatomy
  • Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology