The Tardis Project

The Tardis Project is a computing facility, run and maintained by students of The University of Edinburgh. It was one of the first such projects of its kind, founded in 1987 by the School of Informatics (previously Department of Computer Science) and is still held in high regard. Tardis provides services to members of the University, such as web hosting and mail access.

One of the Tardis Project's main aims is to allow students at the university to be involved in running a large computing system, and learn the experience required to design, build and maintain such a system.

Note & NetBox

The wiki isn't up to date on everything (ever) and the majority of system-level documentation is now in NetBox

Get an Account

Accounts are open to all students and staff, for more information, please see the Account Applications, or contact us with any queries you may have.

More about the Tardis Project and its purpose can be found in The Tardis Charter.

Login TL:DR;

ssh user@ssh.tardis.ed.ac.uk. More info on the Shell Service.

More verbose information on using Tardis can be found here: Tardis Beginner Tutorials

Next meeting

We regularly have meetings in the The Auld Hoose on Mondays at 1830. All are welcome and we would especially like to meet any freshers interested in the project or who want accounts.

If you would like to chat to existing tardis users, our timelords or assistants (sysadmins) please join our IRC channel: #tardis on ImaginaryNET.

Popular Services

• IRC channel imaginarynet#tardis (See Connecting to IRC)

• Shout web IRC http://shout.tardis.ed.ac.uk/ (about)

• Jenkins CI http://jenkins.tardis.ed.ac.uk (docs)

• Gitlab https://git.tardis.ed.ac.uk & GitLab CI https://ci.cybermat.tardis.ed.ac.uk (about)

• Sentry http://judoon.tardis.ed.ac.uk (docs)

• Mailing Lists http://lists.tardis.ed.ac.uk

• Webmail https://webmail.tardis.ed.ac.uk/

• Tahoe LAFS (about)

• User hosts Fez and Torchwood

Current Events Here is a list of current changes, major problems and developments going on in Tardis. Close any Queued maintenance Decide on a Numbering Plan Get rid of some of our old (really old) hardware due to space limitations The Backup Infrastructure needs to be addressed. We need a bigger chassis/more disks. If you would like to help us with or you would like to learn about how we are doing any of the above projects please contact us at support@tardis.ed.ac.uk.

News 11 April 2017 The School of Informatics have identified a room that may be used as a dedicated server room for Tardis on level 7 of Appleton Tower. 10 Feb 2017 It has been agreed that the School of Informatics will find a (yet to be determined) location for the Tardis servers within Appleton Tower. 1 May 2015 Tardis is now living in the Informatics Forum Data Center. Access is supervised and only within business hours (Mon-Fri). 14 October 2013 We have a webserver again! The wiki is back, and is authenticated against LDAP. Yay! » View all News

Documentation Systems Services General Administration Administration Documents Meetings Solaris Installation MediaWiki Installation LDAP usage Meta-tracking Admin Projects Things That Need Fixing Out Of Date Pages