University of Manchester Students' Union

Computer Services

Societies have access to a wide range of online resources and technical support such as email, web and shell hosting that will help to promote and co-ordinate your activities. You can also promote your activities through university wide email and our online calendar.

This is the Union's webserver - Waldo. On these pages there are details on:

• Email
• Connecting to Waldo
• Picking a good password
• How to get a mailing list set up
• What you need to know to run a mailing list
• Forums
• Content or Site Management Systems
• Installing third party software
• Requesting subdomains
• Using a MySQL database
• Visitors and hits to the server, along with the hits for various societies

Questions relating to this web site should be directed to: webmaster@umu.man.ac.uk
Questions relating to society web sites should be directed to that society.

Waldo's technical specifications.

If you are having problems with a service on Waldo, which you think is either unavailable, or not working correctly, please wait roughly half an hour and then try again. If it is still unavailable email root@umu.man.ac.uk and let us know. Things will only get fixed when we get told they are broken (this includes the many automatic checks and notifications that happen).

The services described here are for University of Manchester Students' Union registered societies only. All requests must be made from yoursociety@umsu.man.ac.uk to root@umsu.man.ac.uk.