From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Mon Jan 10 07:14:35 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 10:14:35 -0500 Subject: $GROUPNAME (was GSLISA) Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199401101514.AA25019@Warren.MENTORG.COM> (NOTE: GSLISA (Garden State LISA) has changed it's name to $GROUPNAME. For more information about $GROUPNAME, send "info groupname" to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com) --------------------------- $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar --------------------------- JANUARY: "Are your customers your fellow workers?" Thurday, Jan 27: _Keeping_Users_Happy_: At Mentor's NJ location the sysadmin staff have developed a number of techniques to make sure users demands are met, requests get completed, and users are kept happy. Some techniques are software, some are policy. The presentation will demo their helpdesk/pager system, give an overview of their network configuration, security standards, and philsophy. The presentation should be useful to anyone who's customers are your fellow employees. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. Location: Mentor Graphics Corp 15 Independence Blvd. Warren, NJ 07059 When: Thursday, January 27, 1994, 7:30-9:30pm NOTE: The meeting will start exactly at 7:30. For directions, send "send groupname directions" as the first line of a message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com. Or, cut and paste this command into a Unix shell: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com ------------------------------------------------------------ FEBRUARY: Thursday, Feb 17: This is the annual meeting under the bylaws. They bylaws will be approved and the the first board will be elected. Location: To Be Announced When: Thursday, February 17, 7:30pm-9:00pm ------------------------------------------------------------ From tutorials at sug.org Mon Jan 10 07:37:35 1994 From: tutorials at sug.org (tutorials at sug.org) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 10:37:35 EST Subject: New Sun User Group Seminars for System Administrators Message-ID: <9401101537.AA07428@bridge.sug.org> +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Register before February 15, 1994 and save $50.00!! | +---------------------------------------------------------+ The Sun User Group is pleased to announce the first of its series of new UNIX tutorials. The Sun User Group (SUG) has a long tradition of providing informative and timely tutorial sessions as part of our technical conferences. Now, that same expertise has gone into developing a program of intensive one-day seminars to be taught around the country -- and possibly around the world. Our goal was to develop a group of intensive and informative courses that will meet the needs of the Sun/SPARC community. We realize, of course, that every user has their individual requirements and their own set of questions they would like answered. That's why we've come up with an entire range of courses to meet the needs of everyone, from wizards to novices. The SUG Tutorial Program is designed to bring experienced training professionals to you. The tutorials will cover a variety of topics relating to Sun/SPARC and x86-based machines, running any of a number of operating systems. Future courses are planned on: * UNIX Security * Migrating to Solaris * Perl * Mixed-OS Administration * Multithreading * UNIX Basics * The Internet * UNIX Device drivers The first tutorials are scheduled for March 29 and 30, 1994, and will both be held at the Sun User Group offices in Brookline, MA. Information on these seminars is listed below. Please note, that despite the complementary nature of the course offerings, a separate registration fee is required for each one. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Introduction to Solaris System Administration Tuesday, Mar 29, 1994 9am-5pm Instructor: Dinah McNutt Target Audience: The course is targeted at UNIX users who want to learn the basics of Solaris Systems administration. The emphasis of the course is on learning how to get started, problem solving, and task automation. The focus is on Solaris systems, but many of the concepts taught apply to other types of UNIX systems. Novice or intermediate system administrators who want to learn more about Solaris will also benefit from this class as differences between Solaris 2.2 and the SunOS 4.1.3 will be noted in the course notes. Outline Role of the system administrator Adding New Users Managing Processes Filesystems Backups Printing Introduction to Networking Shutting the system down Security Tools of the Trade Troubleshooting Resources for Learning More ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Advanced Solaris System Administration Wednesday, Mar 30, 1994 9am-5pm Instructors: Peter Galvin and Dinah McNutt Target Audience: This tutorial is designed to meet the needs of the system administrator who has experience at managing systems, but has not had extensive experience with Sun's new Solaris 2.X operating system. Areas of focus include differences between Solaris 2.X and older operating systems, and migrating from those older operating systems to Solaris. Topics discussed include: * Installation and Configuration of Solaris 2.X - including the new naming schemes for directories and devices, the new startup file organization and function, and the new printing and serial-I/O configuration files. * Managing Solaris 2.3 - covering the new aspects of 2.3, including the new caching file system and AutoFS, the automounter file system. * NIS+ - differences between NIS and NIS+ will be discussed as well as how to use NIS+. * Kernel Configuration - how to configure new devices and changes from Solaris 2.1 and SunOS 4.1.x * SCSI - everything the system administrator needs to know about how SCSI works, how to install new devices, and trouble shoot problems. * Networking - TCP/IP from the hardware side including how routers and bridges work and useful tools for you to have in your toolbox. * Tools - some of the tools we have found useful for automating system administration tasks and troubleshooting problems: watcher, multi-rsh, and sysinfo to name a few! ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS: Dinah McNutt: ------------- Dinah McNutt is a System Administration Consultant for Tivoli Systems where she works with customers of Tivoli helping them with system administration problems and customization of Tivoli's system administration software. She has been doing system administration for over 8 years and has written technical articles on the subject for SunExpert Magazine, RS/Magazine, and the X Resource Journal. Ms. McNutt currently writes the Daemons and Dragons column for UNIX Review magazine, and is the originator of the System Administration column for Sun Expert magazine. As an instructor, Ms. McNutt has brought her expertise to conferences, companies and classrooms all over the world. She is a frequent instructor at Sun User Group conferences and is featured in "UNIX Systems Administration for Sun Systems", a video tutorial created in cooperation with SUG. Peter Galvin: ------------- Peter Galvin is currently the Systems Manager for Brown University's Computer Science Department, where he provides technical management of an installation of nearly 200 Sun SPARCstations and servers. He is also a current member of the Board of Directors of the Sun User Group. He has used, programmed, and managed computer systems for 15 years, including 8 years with Sun equipment. As a consultant and trainer, he has taught a week-long course in Sun system administration, and given talks at SunWorld, DECUS, and the annual SUG conferences, for which he has also served as Chair of the Program Committee. He is a columnist for the _Superuser_ newsletter, and coauthor of _Operating Systems Concepts_ by Silberschatz and Galvin. 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[ ] Check [ ] MasterCard [ ] Visa Credit Card Number:___________________________________________________ Expiration Date:______________________________________________________ Signature of cardholder:______________________________________________ Name:_________________________________________________________________ Title:________________________________________________________________ Company Name:_________________________________________________________ Department:___________________________________________________________ Mail Stop/Suite:______________________________________________________ Street Address:_______________________________________________________ City:_________________________________________________________________ State:________________________________________________________________ Zip/Postal Code:______________________________________________________ Country:______________________________________________________________ Email Address:________________________________________________________ Phone:________________________________________________________________ From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Wed Jan 26 11:24:33 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:24:33 -0500 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting *POSTPONED* (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199401261924.AA26130@Warren.MENTORG.COM> The $GROUPNAME meeting scheduled for Thurday, Jan 27 (topic, "Keeping Users Happy") will be post poned due to snow. The new date is exactly 7 days later: Thursday, Feb 3, 1994. WHAT IS $GROUPNAME? ------------------- $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. For a complete >>CALENDAR OF EVENTS<< listing: Send "get groupname calendar" as the first line of an email message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com. Or, at a Unix shell prompt: echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For >>DIRECTIONS<< to the next event: Send "get groupname directions" as the first line of an email message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com. Or, at a Unix shell prompt: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com From peg at BBN.COM Thu Jan 27 08:27:04 1994 From: peg at BBN.COM (Peg Schafer) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 11:27:04 EST Subject: UKUUG & EurOpen Forum 94 Message-ID: <9401271636.AA12801@usenix.ORG> Dear Sage Folks, I thought I'd pass this along. They are looking for good sys admin papers... *** Call for Papers for UKUUG **** Venue: Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, Egham, Surrey, UK Dates: Tutorials - 11th & 12th April Conference 13th, 14th & 15th April, 1994 Call for Papers: UKUUG & EurOpen invite papers from those wishing to present their work. Full abstracts and outlines of the papers must be submitted. All submissions will be reviewed with respect to their quality, originality and relevance. Suggested topics include: Mobile Computing Public Domain Software Systems Administration Important Dates: Abstracts due: 15th February, 1994 Notification to Authors: 20th February, 1994 Papers due : 1st March Method of Submission Full papers or extended abstracts must be submitted by post to UKUUG Secretariat and if possible, in electronic form to ukuug- conf-94 at bnr.co.uk. All submissions will be acknowledged by return of post. Proposals: Proposals should include - An Abstract of 100 words, An outline of the paper of 2 to 3 pages, The name of the author, address, telephone and fax numbers and email address. All proposals must be submitted to the UKUUG Secretariat at the address below. UKUUG Secretariat, Owles Hall, Buntingford, Herts. SG9 9PL, UK. _________________________________________________________ UKUUG - Egham Event Timetable Tutorial Contracts out 1st February CFP out with February Newsletter 3rd February Abstract Deadline 15th February Acceptance of Abstracts 20th February Tutorial Contracts back 20th February Bookings Booklet to Printer 24th February Bookings Booklet out 28th February Deadline for full papers to SM 1st March Full Sets of Tutorial Notes rec by 18th March Proceedings front cover artwork to printer 25th March Tutorial Notes to printer for copying 25th March Proceedings text to printer 28th March From tal at warren.mentorg.com Wed Jan 26 11:24:48 1994 From: tal at warren.mentorg.com (Tom Limoncelli) Date: 26 Jan 1994 14:24:48 -0500 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting *POSTPONED* (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <2i6g20$pgt$1@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM> The $GROUPNAME meeting scheduled for Thurday, Jan 27 (topic, "Keeping Users Happy") will be post poned due to snow. The new date is exactly 7 days later: Thursday, Feb 3, 1994. WHAT IS $GROUPNAME? ------------------- $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. For a complete >>CALENDAR OF EVENTS<< listing: Send "get groupname calendar" as the first line of an email message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com. Or, at a Unix shell prompt: echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For >>DIRECTIONS<< to the next event: Send "get groupname directions" as the first line of an email message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com. Or, at a Unix shell prompt: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com -- Tom Limoncelli -- tal at warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal at plts.org (play) "Psst! Hey, Anthony! Y'know what I | Disclaimer: I do not like about existing?" "Uh... uh... what?" | speak for Mentor Graphics. "Possessing a physical extension." -TSA | From tom_limoncelli at warren.mentorg.com Wed Jan 26 11:24:33 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at warren.mentorg.com (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 19:24:33 GMT Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting *POSTPONED* (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199401261924.AA26130@Warren.MENTORG.COM> The $GROUPNAME meeting scheduled for Thurday, Jan 27 (topic, "Keeping Users Happy") will be post poned due to snow. The new date is exactly 7 days later: Thursday, Feb 3, 1994. WHAT IS $GROUPNAME? ------------------- $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. For a complete >>CALENDAR OF EVENTS<< listing: Send "get groupname calendar" as the first line of an email message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com. Or, at a Unix shell prompt: echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For >>DIRECTIONS<< to the next event: Send "get groupname directions" as the first line of an email message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo at warren.mentorg.com. Or, at a Unix shell prompt: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Wed Mar 9 11:11:46 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 14:11:46 -0500 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199403091911.AA08008@Warren.MENTORG.COM> [ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all of which have approved or requested such crossposts. ] $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar --------------------------- MARCH: Thursday, March 24, 7:30pm - 9:30pm: Speaker: Bill Cheswick of AT&T Bell Laboratories Topic: Firewalls. Location: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ To RSVP, send email to rjw at research.att.com. APRIL: Facilitated discussion at a diner near Rutgers is planned. ------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the $GROUPNAME mailing list: echo subscribe groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For directions to the meeting: echo send groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For more information about $GROUPNAME: echo info groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com NOTE: $GROUPNAME used to be called GSLISA (Garden State LISA). From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Tue Mar 22 11:12:33 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 14:12:33 -0500 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199403221912.AA16685@Warren.MENTORG.COM> [ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all of which have approved or requested such crossposts. ] $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar --------------------------- MARCH: Thursday, March 24, 7:30pm - 9:30pm: Speaker: Bill Cheswick of AT&T Bell Laboratories Topic: Firewalls. Location: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ To RSVP, send email to rjw at research.att.com. APRIL: Facilitated discussion at a diner near Rutgers is planned. ------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the $GROUPNAME mailing list: echo subscribe groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For directions to the meeting: echo send groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For more information about $GROUPNAME: echo info groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com NOTE: $GROUPNAME used to be called GSLISA (Garden State LISA). From kim at MIT.EDU Wed Apr 6 06:41:58 1994 From: kim at MIT.EDU (Kimberly Carney) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 09:41:58 EDT Subject: BackBayLISA Meeting: Computers and Privacy Message-ID: <9404061342.AA16620@box.MIT.EDU> April 13, 1994 Wednesday Topic: Computers and Privacy Speaker: Jeff Schiller, Manager of MIT Network and System Operations IESG Area Director for Security Location: MIT Building E51 Room 140 70 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA Time: 7:00 pm Coordinator: Kim Carney DES. Public and private keys. Clipper chips. Digital signatures. What do all of these things mean? Come and join us as we examine the major issues in the area of computers and privacy. This hot topic is of major importance to every computer user -- be sure not to miss this meeting!!! Directions: Car: For folks driving, they should follow Memorial Drive, and then turn down Wadsworth St. to get to the rear of the building. Park on the street or MIT parking lot nearby. Entrance to the building is in the rear. T: Red Line to Kendall Square stop. From the T head over toward Au Bon Pain, take right onto Wadsworth St. Walk one block. Building E51 is at the corner of Wadsworth and Amherst St. From verber at solutions.com Wed Apr 6 13:32:41 1994 From: verber at solutions.com (Mark Verber) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 13:32:41 PDT Subject: SAGE WWW server Message-ID: <9404062032.AA04197@solutions.com> There is now a SAGE www server. The SAGE web is not extensively populated at this time, and what is there is still rather primitive. This existing web should get cleaned up, and a lot of new information will appear in the next few months. The URL for the SAGE server is http://www.sage.usenix.org/sage/sage.html --Mark Verber Chair of SAGE Online Working Group From bigmac at erg.sri.com Mon Apr 11 13:08:34 1994 From: bigmac at erg.sri.com (Bryan McDonald) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 13:08:34 -0700 Subject: BayLISA April Meeting: Paul Vixie Message-ID: <9404112008.AA16384@sjc.erg.sri.com> BayLISA will be holding it's monthly meeting on April 21, 1994. Please note that we are at a new location, Synopsys. Please see directions below. This months speaker, Paul Vixie, sent the following abstract: Stolen Networks And How To Live With Them Since Class A networks have always been hard to get and Class B's have recently also become hard to get, a growing number of IP-using organizations are using Class A and B network numbers which officially belong to someone else. This abuse creates some interesting problems for the Internet gateways to such organizations, especially if they want end-to-end IP connectivity from within their internal, illegal, unadvertised, ambiguous network all the way out to the real Internet. This talk will focus on an implementation of ``proxy forwarding'' done mostly via intercepted system calls and the ``hooks'' interface in the BIND 4.9.2 resolver. The described system is similar to ``Socks'' but violates fewer invariants. It is running in production on BSD/386, and should be portable to any BSD-like operating system whose Socket interface is implemented with system calls rather than library stubs. The code will shortly be released to the public. We hope you can attend. ----- Notes: The BayLISA Summer Picnic is coming together, and we are currently looking at late July as our target date. Watch for further announcements. ----- General Meeting Information: Date: Thursday, Apr 21st, 7:30 PM (Third Thursday of every month) Please do not arrive before 7 PM. Place: Synopsys Building C 700 E. Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043 [SEE BELOW FOR MAP AND DIRECTIONS] BayLISA Information: The BayLISA group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to systems and network administrators. The meetings are free and open to the public. BayLISA Contact Information: For general information: baylisa-info at baylisa.org BayLISA Board: blw at baylisa.org Individual Board members: first_lastname at baylisa.org FTP Service: ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA Non-electronic mail: BayLISA PO Box 64369 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-4369 To join the BayLISA mailing list, send email to majordomo at baylisa.org with a body message of help. ----- Synopsys is located at the corner of Highway 237 and Middlefield. If you are going South on 101 you exit on Ellis street. Turn right towards Mountain View (not Moffet field). Turn left onto Middlefield. Go past the light at Highway 237. The next light will be Bernardo, turn left into the parking lot. Head left to Building C. If you are going North on 101, exit on to Mountain View (I don't remember if it's West or South 237, freeways here just don't make sense). Turn left at Middlefield. It will be the second traffic light. The next light will be Bernardo, turn left into the parking lot. Head left to Building C. Ascii diagram, not to scale :-) Highway 101 | | | ellis \ +--------\ | \ | \ ---------+------+--------------------- Highway 237 |M | \ |i @ |maude \ --------+d--- | \ bernardo |d | |l | |f |i |e |l @ = Synopsys |d From ple at erg.sri.com Mon Apr 18 09:28:41 1994 From: ple at erg.sri.com (ple at erg.sri.com) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 09:28:41 -0700 Subject: Announcements for local group events on SAGE mailing lists Message-ID: <9404181628.AA02432@intrepid.erg.sri.com> In response to a number of inquiries, the SAGE board decided at the March 14th board meeting to accept postings of announcements for system administration local group (e.g., BayLISA, BackBayLISA, $GROUPNAME, etc.) events on the sage-announce and sage-locals mailing lists. We ask, however, that such announcements *not* be posted to the sage-members mailing list. If you have any questions about this policy, please feel free to contact the SAGE board by sending email to sage-board at usenix.org. Paul Evans SAGE Secretary From bigmac at erg.sri.com Tue Apr 19 16:45:55 1994 From: bigmac at erg.sri.com (Bryan McDonald) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 16:45:55 -0700 Subject: BayLISA April Meeting: Paul Vixie [repost] Message-ID: <9404192345.AA01979@sjc.erg.sri.com> BayLISA will be holding it's monthly meeting on April 21, 1994. Please note that we are at a new location, Synopsys. Please see directions below. This months speaker, Paul Vixie, sent the following abstract: Stolen Networks And How To Live With Them Since Class A networks have always been hard to get and Class B's have recently also become hard to get, a growing number of IP-using organizations are using Class A and B network numbers which officially belong to someone else. This abuse creates some interesting problems for the Internet gateways to such organizations, especially if they want end-to-end IP connectivity from within their internal, illegal, unadvertised, ambiguous network all the way out to the real Internet. This talk will focus on an implementation of ``proxy forwarding'' done mostly via intercepted system calls and the ``hooks'' interface in the BIND 4.9.2 resolver. The described system is similar to ``Socks'' but violates fewer invariants. It is running in production on BSD/386, and should be portable to any BSD-like operating system whose Socket interface is implemented with system calls rather than library stubs. The code will shortly be released to the public. We hope you can attend. ----- Notes: The BayLISA Summer Picnic is coming together, and we are currently looking at late July as our target date. Watch for further announcements. ----- General Meeting Information: Date: Thursday, Apr 21st, 7:30 PM (Third Thursday of every month) Please do not arrive before 7 PM. Place: Synopsys Building C 700 E. Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043 [SEE BELOW FOR MAP AND DIRECTIONS] BayLISA Information: The BayLISA group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to systems and network administrators. The meetings are free and open to the public. BayLISA Contact Information: For general information: baylisa-info at baylisa.org BayLISA Board: blw at baylisa.org Individual Board members: first_lastname at baylisa.org FTP Service: ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA Non-electronic mail: BayLISA PO Box 64369 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-4369 To join the BayLISA mailing list, send email to majordomo at baylisa.org with a body message of help. ----- Synopsys is located at the corner of Highway 237 and Middlefield. If you are going South on 101 you exit on Ellis street. Turn right towards Mountain View (not Moffet field). Turn left onto Middlefield. Go past the light at Highway 237. The next light will be Bernardo, turn left into the parking lot. Head left to Building C. If you are going North on 101, exit on to Mountain View (I don't remember if it's West or South 237, freeways here just don't make sense). Turn left at Middlefield. It will be the second traffic light. The next light will be Bernardo, turn left into the parking lot. Head left to Building C. Ascii diagram, not to scale :-) Highway 101 | | | ellis \ +--------\ | \ | \ ---------+------+--------------------- Highway 237 |M | \ |i @ |maude \ --------+d--- | \ bernardo |d | |l | |f |i |e |l @ = Synopsys |d From paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu Wed Apr 20 13:13:03 1994 From: paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 16:13:03 EDT Subject: POSIX P1387.2 Balloting Fee Reimbursement Offer Message-ID: <9404202013.AA19894@rigel.dartmouth.edu> SAGE is pleased to announce that, as an incentive to get SAGE members to participate in the "Standards Process" (especially as it relates to system administration), we are prepared to reimburse POSIX P1387.2 (Software Administration) balloting fees ($50 - see below) for the first 5 SAGE members requesting such reimbursement. The standards process is long and arduous - this formal ballot is the culmination of many months of work. Alarmingly, few active professional systems administrators have participated in the drafting of the proposed standard. While it's not possible to change the past, we invite you to help shape the future by letting your voice be heard now, and watchdogging similar efforts as time goes on. Standards don't usually just get created and put on a shelf somewhere - it's in our best interests to make sure that the things standardized are at least viable. Please note that the deadline for joining the balloting group (4/25) is fast approaching - we reget the short notice. Make sure you're prepared to make the committment necessary to read and respond to the ballot before you register, since registration *obligates* you to respond. Send reimbursement requests or questions to me: paw at usenix.org. Pat Wilson Member, SAGE Board of Directors paw at usenix.org > =================================================================== > Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 11:55:39 CST > > > From: Jay Ashford > Subject: (7bsm 352) Invitation to Ballot -- POSIX Software Administration > > A ballot group is now being formed for POSIX Software Administration > (P1387.2). This work includes a software packaging layout (media > format), a set of information maintained about software, and a set of > utilities that operates on the packaging layout and information. The > utilities cover creating packages, plus copying, installing, > configuring, listing, verifying, and removing software in a > distributed environment. > > If you are seriously interested in reviewing this 300 page work and > making specific suggestions for any changes you may desire, we > encourage you to join the ballot group. Joining the ballot group > costs 50 dollars (US). Ballot group members have an obligation to > respond to the ballot. We also know that there are many who are too > busy or otherwise unable to make this sort of commitment at present. > Consequently, copies of the draft may be obtained from the IEEE > without joining the ballot group. > > The deadline for joining the ballot group is 25 April 1994. > > Only members of the IEEE, or full members of the IEEE Computer > Society, may vote on standards. Others may also send their comments, > which comments will also be addressed by the ballot resolution > committee. > > I have attached below an electronic version of the ballot group > registration form. You may send this by fax or email to Rosemary > Tennis. If you need a paper copy of the form, I can send one to you > by fax (or by paper mail if there is enough time). If you have other > questions, I will try to answer them. > > Jay > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Jay Ashford tel: +1 512 838 3402 > IBM Corporation fax: +1 512 838 3882 > 11400 Burnet Road > Austin, Texas 78758 > USA e-mail: ashford at sunset.austin.ibm.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Registration for P1387.2 POSIX Software Administration ballot group > > Name: > Phone: > Fax: > Email: > Company: > Address: > > > Category of interest: > (must be one of User/Producer/Academic/General) > (mark General if you have interest in more than one category) > > IEEE or IEEE Computer Society membership number: > Check here if not a member of IEEE or IEEE Computer Society: > > Method of Payment: > Check > Deduct from my NAPS account > Charge to my credit card as indicated: > American Express > MasterCard/EuroCard > Diners Club > Visa > > Credit Card Information: > > Card number: > Expiration date: > > Signature and date: > > Billing address: > > > (note that payment by check requires registering by paper mail) > (note that payment by credit card probably should not be done by email) > > > Return completed form to: > Rosemary Tennis > Fax: (908) 562-1571 > Email: rtennis at stdsmail.ieee.org > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From tvd at MATH.AMS.ORG Thu Apr 21 05:53:45 1994 From: tvd at MATH.AMS.ORG (Todd Vander Does) Date: 21 Apr 1994 08:53:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: POSIX P1387.2 Balloting Fee Reimbursement Offer In-Reply-To: Your message of 20 Apr 1994 16:13:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: I would like to participate in the P1387.2 POSIX Software Administration ballot group. I am sending my request directly to rtennis at stdsmail.ieee.org. I hope its fun!:-) Todd Todd Vander Does American Mathematical Society Systems Programmer P.O. Box 6248 Voice (401) 455-4031 Providence, RI 02940-6248 Fax (401) 331-3842 tvd at math.ams.org From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Thu Apr 21 07:12:43 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 10:12:43 -0400 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199404211412.AA09703@Warren.MENTORG.COM> $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. ------------------------------------------------------ A N N O U N C E M E N T : ------------------------------------------------------ $GROUPNAME CLUSTER GROUP MEETINGS Tonight's the first $GROUPNAME Cluster Group Night! Cluster groups will be meeting: South Jersey: Olga's Dinner, Marlton, NJ Central Jersey: Carousel Diner, Plainfield, NJ TOPIC: I would like to propose this topic: Each cluster group creates a list of the free software that they find useful. The software can be available via FTP or whatever. Then, the cluster group ranks each item using a rating of 0-5 (0="useful", 5="I can't live without this tool"). Later, on the mailing list, we can compare our lists. It would be interesting to see what each group comes up with and where the differences and commonalities are. Also, the results would be a useful resource for our members! ---------------------- SOUTH JERSEY: The South Jersey cluster meeting will be at Olga's Dinner at the junction of Routes 70 & 73 in Marlton at 8:00 pm, Thu April 21. Directions: From Rt 295 take Rt 70 East to the Rt 73 Circle. From Rt 130 take Rt 73 South to the Rt 73 Circle. RSVP (not required) to: Chris Pappagianis, cpappa at vf.ge.com ---------------------- CENTRAL JERSEY: The Central Jersey cluster meeting will be at the Carousel Diner in on Rt 22 (west bound) in Plainfield, NJ at 8:00 pm, Thu April 21. RSVP (strongly suggested) to: Tom Limoncelli, tal at warren.mentorg.com Directions: >From Rt 287: Take Rt 22 east about 11 miles. You will pass K-Mart then Staples then "VIP Honda". The diner is across the road from the Honda dealer. Go to the next U-turn, turn around, it's soon after you go under the bridge. >From Rt 78: Take exit 40 and go south. At bottom of hill turn right. You are now in a traffic circle, follow the blue "H" (Hospital) signs (i.e. Towards "The Plainfields"). Once out of the circle, go until you hit Rt 22. Turn right onto Rt 22 (you don't have any choice). Diner is on your right. ---------------------- See you there! [ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all of whom have approved or requested such crossposts. ] From bigmac at baylisa.org Tue Apr 26 08:07:10 1994 From: bigmac at baylisa.org (bigmac at baylisa.org) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 08:07:10 -0700 Subject: BayLISA Meeting Schedule Message-ID: <9404261507.AA25822@sjc.erg.sri.com> BayLISA holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View off Highway 237. Below is the schedule for the next three months with tentative topics from each speaker. More information will be posted as it is available. To get further information on the meeting location, you can request it from the majordomo server on baylisa.org, you can ftp it from ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA/location, or you can send email to baylisa-info at baylisa.org. Starting this May and going through the rest of the summer, we plan on broadcasting our meetings via MBONE. We are still working out the details, please contact any member of the board if you have any questions. Schedule -------- May 19th: Paul Evans (SRI): Administering a large with one admin June 16th: Bill Howell (UNC): System administration management July 15th: Dino Farinacci (Cisco): IPng If you have any questions, please contact me or any of the board. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bryan McDonald |Computer, Hardware, And Operations Support bigmac at erg.sri.com | CHAOS Postmaster-Sr Systems Administrator | ITAD - SRI International +------------------------------BayLISA President-------------------------------+ +------USENIX/SAGE (System Administrators Guild) Publications Coordinator------+ From bigmac at baylisa.org Tue Apr 26 08:47:36 1994 From: bigmac at baylisa.org (bigmac at baylisa.org) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 08:47:36 -0700 Subject: BayLISA Meeting Schedule [revised] Message-ID: <9404261547.AA26262@sjc.erg.sri.com> [My apologies...I was not paying very close attention when I listed the July meeting. It is not the 15th, but the 21st. Bryan] BayLISA holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View off Highway 237. Below is the schedule for the next three months with tentative topics from each speaker. More information will be posted as it is available. To get further information on the meeting location, you can request it from the majordomo server on baylisa.org, you can ftp it from ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA/location, or you can send email to baylisa-info at baylisa.org. Starting this May and going through the rest of the summer, we plan on broadcasting our meetings via MBONE. We are still working out the details, please contact any member of the board if you have any questions. Schedule -------- May 19th: Paul Evans (SRI): Administering a large with one admin June 16th: Bill Howell (UNC): System administration management July 21st: Dino Farinacci (Cisco): IPng If you have any questions, please contact me or any of the board. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bryan McDonald |Computer, Hardware, And Operations Support bigmac at erg.sri.com | CHAOS Postmaster-Sr Systems Administrator | ITAD - SRI International +------------------------------BayLISA President-------------------------------+ +------USENIX/SAGE (System Administrators Guild) Publications Coordinator------+ From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Fri Apr 29 12:39:13 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 15:39:13 -0400 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199404291939.AA07842@Warren.MENTORG.COM> $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. ----------------------------------------------------------------- $ G R O U P N A M E C A L E N D A R ----------------------------------------------------------------- MAY: Monday, May 2, 7:30pm - 9:30pm "Why would a sysadmin want to run OSF's DCE?" by Rich Salz, of OSF and INN fame. Location: Digital, Manalapan (about 45 minutes from Newark Airport) Directions: see end of this message. Rich Salz is on staff at OSF in Cambridge, MA developing some of the networking protocols involved in DCE. He is also the author of INN, the software that most sites on the internet use to transmit netnews. JUNE: Thursday, June 16, 7:00pm Cluster Group meetings Topic: TBA All are invited to cluster group meetings! They are social as well as technical. If there isn't one in your area, why not start one? The only requirement is that they are all cluster groups meet simultaniously and have the same topic (yeah, right). This is the second Cluster Night. The first one was amazingly successful. CENTRAL JERSEY: The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield. SOUTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers. NORTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers. JULY: Thursday, July 21, time TBA Topic: TBD Location: Mt. Laurel See you there! ------------------------------------------------------------ Directions to Monday, May 2 meeting: FOR A MAP OF THE AREA: (a uuencoded GIF) echo get groupname decmap | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com (Digital is marked by the X in the lower right. Close to the M on route 9.) *** From Newark Airport to Digital, Manalapan (~45 minutes) : - Exit Airport, watch for and follow signs for SOUTH I95 and New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) South - Enter NJTP Southbound (towards Trenton) - Follow NJTP South to Exit #11 Garden State Parkway (GSP) - Enter GSP South - Follow GSP over large bridge (Raritan River), pay toll (.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South) - Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road (~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag. corners from office - Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building closest to intersection is Digital. (Red brick, two story, sign on building) *** From Piscataway, Somerville, and Morristown Areas: - I-287 South to the Garden State Parkway (GSP). - GSP South over bridge (Raritan River), pay toll (.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South) - Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road (~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag. corner from office - Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building is closest to intersection is Digital. (Red brick, two story, sign on building) *** From Philadelphia area, Take New Jersey Turnpike North to exit 8. Follow directions from The Princeton Area *** From The Princeton Area - Route 33 EAST to Freehold area - Route 9 NORTH, (following signs for Taylors Mill Road) - Take Taylors Mill "exit" make a right onto Taylors Mill Road and enter the Justin Corporate Center parking lot on the right. Building is closest to intersection is Digital. (Red brick, two story, sign on building) ------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the $GROUPNAME mailing list: echo subscribe groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com To receive $GROUPNAME announcements: echo subscribe groupname-announce | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For directions to the next meeting: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For our "Calendar Of Events": echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For more information about $GROUPNAME: echo info groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com [ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all of whom have approved or requested such crossposts. ] NOTE: $GROUPNAME used to be called GSLISA (Garden State LISA). From escott at esm.com Mon May 2 10:17:07 1994 From: escott at esm.com (E. Scott Menter) Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 10:17:07 -0700 Subject: NYSA Meeting featuring Alan Paller, Mon May 9, 6:15pm, Morgan Stanley, NYC Message-ID: <9405021017.aa06550@paris.ics.uci.edu> ***** NYSA (New York Systems Administrators) ***** ***** Next meeting: Monday May 9th, 6:15pm ***** Location: Morgan Stanley, 1251 Avenue Of The ***** Americas, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10020 ***** (directions below) ***** ***** Attendance is free of charge and open to all, as always I'm *very* pleased to announce that the speaker for the next NYSA meeting will be none other than Alan Paller of Computer Associates. Alan is Director of Open Systems at Computer Associates where his job is to help 10,000 mainframe sites downsize to UNIX and open systems (and you thought downsizing was hard just at *your* site!). He is an accomplished speaker. He chaired the Experts Predict The Future of Open Systems session at UNIFORUM; the entire CIO Magazine 1992 CIO conference, and co-chaired the annual System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) conferences since 1992. Alan earned information systems degrees from Cornell and MIT and is the author of more than 100 articles and a book entitled, "The EIS Book: Information Systems for Top Managers" (Irwin, 1991). He is also the co-author of a short booklet called "How To Give The Best Presentation Of Your Life." The topic of Alan's presentation will be "The Future of Unix and Open Systems -- a summary of the 'Experts Predict The Future' session at UNIFORUM". Alan chaired this extremely well-received and informative session at the recent UNIFORUM conference in San Francisco, and I'm certain you will find the talk fascinating and entertaining. NYSA is an informal group of Greater New York City systems administrators who come together each month to share information, learn some new tricks, and have a good time. In addition to the guest speaker, each meeting features a Technical Forum wherein members can raise questions and gain advice on what's new, what's hot, and what's just more road kill on the information highway. NYSA meetings are the second Monday of each month, so plan ahead! This month's meeting will be held once again at Morgan Stanley, on Avenue of the Americas between 49th and 50th Streets in Manhattan. Use the 50th Street entrance. Go up to the 19th floor, and signs or an attendant will guide you to the meeting room. Snacks are served at the meeting, and many of us adjourn to a local tavern following the meeting. See you there! For more information, please send email to or call 914/472-3635. From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Tue May 3 11:07:35 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Tue, 3 May 94 14:07:35 -0400 Subject: May NC System Administrators meeting - ATM networks - 5/9/94 Message-ID: <9405031807.AA23916@bodie.cs.unc.edu> North Carolina System Administration Interest Group ATM Networks Monday, May 9 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus 011 Sitterson Hall 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session The next meeting of the NC System Administration & Managers organization will be Monday, May 9, at 6:00pm The meeting is being held in Chapel Hill on the University of North Carolina campus in Sitterson Hall. Directions to Sitterson Hall are included with this message. This month's meeting will include a presentation on the topic of ATM Networks presented by Mike Langford of Fujitsu Network Switching. Food and drink will be provided, and anyone associated with managing a computing environment is encouraged to attend. RSVPs are not required, but they are encouraged to ensure that enough food and drink will be available. If you have any questions about the organization or the program, or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Dept. of Comp. Science Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing UNC - Chapel Hill UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. 120 Sitterson Hall 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 962-1717 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 howell at cs.unc.edu kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, check out our new Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================== Directions from Raleigh to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) campus and in particular to Sitterson Hall, home of the Computer Science Dept. (If you're coming from east of Chapel Hill, wait for the Route 54 exit -- do not take the 15/501 exit!) 1. Take I-40 West to Chapel Hill. 2. Take exit 273-B off of I-40. This exit is also marked for UNC-Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Route 54 West. 3. Stay on Route 54 West. 4. Go 3.5 to 4 miles on route 54 West. You will pass under route 15/501 (which is also route 54 bypass) and then proceed up a long hill towards campus. 5. At traffic light at top of hill, turn right on to Country Club Road. 6. Follow Country Club Road through a traffic light at Raleigh Street, at which point it becomes Cameron Avenue. 7. Continue on Cameron Avenue until the second stop sign. 8. Turn left at second stop sign into Visitor's Parking. The attendant will either let you park there or will direct you to a place where you can park. Sitterson Hall is an easy walk from Visitor's Parking. 9. If you are arriving after 5:00pm, you can continue on Cameron Ave to the second stop light and Pittsboro St. (this is a one-way street going South). Turn left onto Pittsboro St. and follow it until the first stop light. 10. Turn right and go to the next stop light -- the intersection will be a one-way street going North, South Columbia Street. Turn left at the stop light. 11. Sitterson Hall is the second building on your left -- it is surrounded by parking lots, so any parking space you can find is fair game. SOUTH | Well | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------- Franklin Street | | | NORTH From vanepp at sfu.ca Tue May 17 09:51:59 1994 From: vanepp at sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: EnglishBayLISA meeting tomorrow night Message-ID: <9405171651.AA12211@fraser.sfu.ca> There will be a meeting of EnglishBayLISA on Wednesday May 18 at 7 PM at the TB Auditorium 806 W 10th. The topic will be RAID systems. Admission is free and all are welcome. EnglishBayLISA is a group of and for Unix system administators in Vancouver, Canada. It was formed last December as a result of the Local LISA BOF at LISA VII. As you see from the name (English Bay being a local beach and thus impossible to resist) it is modelled on similar groups in the US. Meetings are monthly, on the third Wednesday of the month, topics vary depending on who we can dig up to speak. There is a promise of a presentation on the internals of the Unix file system and a session on Migration experiences to Sun Solaris 2.x yet to be re sheduled for future sessions. If you are interested in being added to the meeting announcement email list (which is very low volume) send email to vanepp at sfu.ca requesting to be added. Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada From bigmac at baylisa.org Thu May 19 15:09:14 1994 From: bigmac at baylisa.org (bigmac at baylisa.org) Date: Thu, 19 May 94 15:09:14 -0700 Subject: BayLISA Meeting Schedule Message-ID: <9405192209.AA08531@sparkyfs.erg.sri.com> BayLISA holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View off Highway 237. Below is the schedule for the next three months with tentative topics from each speaker. More information will be posted as it is available. To get further information on the meeting location, you can request it from the majordomo server on baylisa.org, you can ftp it from ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA/location, or you can send email to baylisa-info at baylisa.org. Starting this May and going through the rest of the summer, we plan on broadcasting our meetings via MBONE. We are still working out the details, please contact any member of the board if you have any questions. Schedule -------- May 19th: Paul Evans (SRI): Administering a large with one admin Survival when there's only one System Administrator The exponential growth in networks of UNIX workstations has led to a growing number of sites with 100 or more systems/users per administrator. Many sites which only a few years ago would have been considered "large" have only a single administrator. Paul Evans, a veteran of three years as a solo sysadmin, will talk about why you should avoid doing this, and if it's unavoidable, how you can survive. Bring yourself and bring your manager. June 16th: Bill Howell (UNC): System administration management July 21st: Dino Farinacci (Cisco): IPng If you have any questions, please contact me or any of the board. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bryan McDonald |Computer, Hardware, And Operations Support bigmac at erg.sri.com | CHAOS Postmaster-Sr Systems Administrator | ITAD - SRI International +------------------------------BayLISA President-------------------------------+ +------USENIX/SAGE (System Administrators Guild) Publications Coordinator------+ From toni Tue May 24 11:08:10 1994 From: toni (Toni Veglia) Date: Tue, 24 May 94 11:08:10 PDT Subject: Request for Proposals to Chair LISA IX Message-ID: <9405241808.AA17414@usenix.ORG> Request for Proposals to Chair the 9th USENIX Systems Administration Conference (LISA IX) - 1995 The USENIX Association and its Special Technical Group SAGE, the System Administrators Guild, are seeking proposals from people interested in chairing the ninth LISA conference, to be held September 18-22, 1995 in Monterey, California. We are seeking an energetic person with the following qualifications: * Good administrative and planning skills * Experience in the administration of large installations * Good public speaking skills * Knowledge of timely and appropriate topics in the field * Excellent reputation in the field * Ability to solicit good panel members and appropriate speakers * Attendance at previous LISA conferences * Time to invest to insure success of the conference Proposals should be brief (1 page) and should include the following: *Statement of Purpose (e.g., why have another one, how to improve it) *Form of submissions (e.g., abstracts, extended abstracts and/or full papers?) *Format (e.g., 3 days of technical sessions, single or double track, panel sessions, etc.) *List of topics to be addressed (as in the call for papers) *Special features as permitted by meeting facilities (such as invited talks, mini-workshops, panels, Work-in-Progress) (Note that BOFs, tutorials, vendor demos, and conference site selection/logistics are not part of the program chair's duties.) *List of potential program committee members and/or a co-chair (Note that while most USENIX conferences have had an individual program chair, proposals requesting a co-chair are welcome.) *Biography and references Proposal due date: May 31, 1994 Please address all inquiries and proposals to the Association's Executive Director, Ellie Young . You may also request a copy of the Association's guidelines for program chair. Proposals will be evaluated and selection of a chair made by a subcommittee composed of USENIX and SAGE board members in in mid-June 1994. From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Thu Jun 2 07:38:57 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 10:38:57 -0400 Subject: Picnic time!! Sunday, June 12 at Falls Lake Message-ID: <9406021438.AA20913@bodie.cs.unc.edu> Our first annual North Carolina System Administrators PICNIC!! Everyone is invited -- friends, family, co-workers and the curious (are sys admins really people, too??) Gathering: NCSA Picnic Date: Sunday, June 12 Time: 12 Noon until closing (~8PM) Place: Pavilion 7 Sandling Beach State Rec Area Falls Lake Directions: See below Beer/Wine: This is a state facility and alchoholic beverages are not permitted. Hot-dogs, hamburgers, buns and sodas will be provided; everyone is encouraged to bring a covered dish (appetizers, salads, desserts, and other goodies most welcome!) to share. We expect the picnic to cost $3.00 per person to cover the basics, and are asking for RSVPs to Jim Finegan at "finej01 at bwco.com" or (919) 315-4185. We want to make sure we have enough for everyone!! The Pavilion we are reserving, No. 7, is a very short walk from the Lake and has rest room facilities. There are plenty of trails, a swimming beach with play area for kids - and lots of parking. There is a $3.00 per car entry fee for Falls Lake. For those with the desire to plow through the waves, a boat launch is located nearby just off of NC 50. We have even been told that a fish or two might be found in the lake, with proper licenses of course. Questions should be directed to either Jim Finegan or the NCSA discussion mailing list, ncsa-discussion at cs.unc.edu Directions: >From Raleigh and points south and east: I 440 Beltline to US 70 North (Glenwood Ave). US 70 to NC 50 North (onto Creedmore Road). Follow NC 50 until it passes under NC 98. Continue on NC 50 for approximately 2 miles. Entrance to Sandling Beach will be on your left. Pavilion 7 is the last pavilion on the main road. You will pass the swimming area (on your left). >From Durham and points west: Follow I-85 North to US 70 east. Exit onto US 70. Follow US 70 until the NC 98 exit. Follow NC 98 until it crosses NC 50. Exit onto NC 50 heading north. Continue on NC 50 for approximately 2 miles. Entrance to Sandling Beach will be on your left. Pavilion 7 is the last pavilion on the main road. You will pass the swimming area (on your left). >From Wake Forrest and points north: Follow US 1 south. Exit onto NC 98 west. Follow NC 98 until it crosses NC 50. Exit onto NC 50 heading north. Continue on NC 50 for approximately 2 miles. Entrance to Sandling Beach will be on your left. Pavilion 7 is the last pavilion on the main road. You will pass the swimming area (on your left). From vanepp at sfu.ca Fri Jun 3 10:58:19 1994 From: vanepp at sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: June EnglishBayLISA meeting Message-ID: <9406031758.AA21610@fraser.sfu.ca> Announcement of an EnglishBayLISA meeting Date : Wednesday June 15 1994 (the third Wednesday of the month) Place : The TB Auditorium, 806 W 10th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. Canada (part of Vancouver Hospital between Cambie and Oak). Time : 7:30 PM (note later starting time, since 7 PM seems hard for people to make). Topic : A brief report on Interop (the networking conference) by Richard Chycoski of SFU (probably half an hour or so). Internals of the Unix file system by Rob Ballantyne of DSI. Note: Rob has volunteered to create a presentation on Unix file system internals as a start on making the meeting content more technical. I encourage everyone else to follow in his footsteps, and think about an area that you could do something similar on. One that I can think of that would likely be of general interest (if we can find volunteers), is configuring systems in a secure manner. My thought is that we would preload a machine (a Sun for instance) with the manufacturer's system as it comes out of the box, and then have one of us run through the system demonstrating what changes to the default configuration (and why) we would make to the machine before putting it on the net. Suggestions for topics you would like to see are of course welcome. From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Tue Jun 7 14:26:04 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 17:26:04 -0400 Subject: June NC Sys Admin meeting - 6/13/94 Message-ID: <9406072126.AA11119@bodie.cs.unc.edu> The next meeting of the NC System Administration & Managers organization will be this Monday, June 13, at 6pm. Details about the meeting, our technical program and directions to the UNC Chapel Hill campus are provided below. We hope to see you there!! North Carolina System Administration Interest Group An Introduction to the Internet Monday, June 13 011 Sitterson Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session The format for our June meeting will be a panel discussion on introductory topics related to connecting to the Internet. Panel members include: Stan Briggs, Network Computing Solutions moderator for the panel Derick Cole, SSDS Scott Huler, staff writer from the News & Observer Grant Parsons, staff writer from the News & Observer The topics discussed will include how to connect to the Internet (SLIP, PPP, dial-up, direct connections) and what you can do once you're connected. If you're a new Internet user or someone considering a connection to the Internet, an "old-timer" on the Internet but have opinions to share, or just curious about all the hype surrounding that I-net thing, please join us for an informative and entertaining program. Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of the evening. We have once again found a corporate sponsor willing to donate food and drink for the evening. RSVPs are not necessary, but we do encourage them to ensure enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Dept. of Comp. Science Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing UNC - Chapel Hill UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. 120 Sitterson Hall 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 962-1717 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 howell at cs.unc.edu kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== REMINDER: Our first annual NC*SA picnic will be held this Sunday, June 12, at Pavilion 7 at the Sandling Beach State Rec Area at Falls Lake in Raleigh. The picnic begins at noon and we'll stay until everyone's gone or the park closes, whichever comes first!! Friends, family & co-workers are invited! We anticipate a $3.00 per person charge to cover the cost of supplying the hamburgers, hot dogs, buns, and sodas. Everyone is asked to bring a dish to share. For more information, send "get ncsa-discussion Picnic" in the body of an e-mail message to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu" or contact one of the individuals listed above. ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, check out our new Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================== Directions from Raleigh to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) campus and in particular to Sitterson Hall, home of the Computer Science Dept. (If you're coming from east of Chapel Hill, wait for the Route 54 exit -- do not take the 15/501 exit!) 1. Take I-40 West to Chapel Hill. 2. Take exit 273-B off of I-40. This exit is also marked for UNC-Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Route 54 West. 3. Stay on Route 54 West. 4. Go 3.5 to 4 miles on route 54 West. You will pass under route 15/501 (which is also route 54 bypass) and then proceed up a long hill towards campus. 5. At traffic light at top of hill, turn right on to Country Club Road. 6. Follow Country Club Road through a traffic light at Raleigh Street, at which point it becomes Cameron Avenue. 7. Continue on Cameron Avenue until the second stop sign. 8. Turn left at second stop sign into Visitor's Parking. The attendant will either let you park there or will direct you to a place where you can park. Sitterson Hall is an easy walk from Visitor's Parking. 9. If you are arriving after 5:00pm, you can continue on Cameron Ave to the second stop light and Pittsboro St. (this is a one-way street going South). Turn left onto Pittsboro St. and follow it until the first stop light. 10. Turn left and go to the next stop light -- the intersection will be a one-way street going North, South Columbia Street. Turn left at the stop light. 11. Sitterson Hall is the second building on your right -- it is surrounded by parking lots, so any parking space you can find is fair game. SOUTH | Well | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------- Franklin Street | | | NORTH From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Fri Jun 10 08:58:52 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 11:58:52 -0400 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199406101558.AA07511@Warren.MENTORG.COM> $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. ----------------------------------------------------------------- $ G R O U P N A M E C A L E N D A R ----------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE: Thursday, June 16: Cluster Group meetings Topic: TBA All are invited to cluster group meetings! They are social as well as technical. If there isn't one in your area, why not start one? The only requirement is that they are all cluster groups meet simultaniously and have the same topic (yeah, right). This is the second Cluster Night. The first one was amazingly successful. CENTRAL JERSEY: 6pm, The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield. SOUTH JERSEY: 7pm, Brooklawn Diner in Brooklawn. NORTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers. JULY: Thursday, July 21, time TBA Topic: TBD Location: Mt. Laurel See you there! ---------------------- SOUTH JERSEY: The South Jersey Cluster meeting will be held on Thurday, June 16, at 7pm, at the Brooklawn Diner in Brooklawn. Topic TBA, probably June 16, around 8pm. :-) RSVP (highly suggested) to: Bob Snyder Directions to the Brooklawn Diner: >From the NJ Turnpike: Take Exit 4 (Rt. 73) to 73 North. Take 73N less than a mile to I295 South (second offramp) Follow directions for 295 >From Interstate 295: Take 295 South to the 295/76 split. Take the exit for 76 West. Take the exit for 130 South (first offramp on 76) Diner is less than 4 miles ahead, off of the first circle you encounter. >From Philadelphia: Take the Walt Whitman Bridge to NJ. Take the left fork. After the fork, stay in the right lane, and get on 76 East local. Take the exit for 130 South. Diner is less than 4 miles ahead, off of the first circle you encounter. ---------------------- CENTRAL JERSEY: The Central Jersey cluster meeting will be at the Carousel Diner in on Rt 22 (west bound) in Plainfield, NJ at 6:00 pm, Thu June 16. RSVP (greatly appreciated) to: Tom Limoncelli, tal at warren.mentorg.com Directions: >From Rt 287: Take Rt 22 east about 11 miles. You will pass K-Mart then Staples then "VIP Honda". The diner is across the road from the Honda dealer. Go to the next U-turn, turn around, it's soon after you go under the bridge. >From Rt 78: Take exit 40 and go south. At bottom of hill turn right. You are now in a traffic circle, follow the blue "H" (Hospital) signs (i.e. Towards "The Plainfields"). Once out of the circle, go until you hit Rt 22. Turn right onto Rt 22 (you don't have any choice). Diner is on your right. ------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the $GROUPNAME mailing list: echo subscribe groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com To receive $GROUPNAME announcements: echo subscribe groupname-announce | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com NOTE: You don't need to be on "groupname" and "groupname-announce". Being on "groupname" gets you everything from both lists. For directions to the next non-cluster meeting: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For our "Calendar Of Events": echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For more information about $GROUPNAME: echo info groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com [ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all of whom have approved or requested such crossposts. ] NOTE: $GROUPNAME used to be called GSLISA (Garden State LISA). From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Tue Jun 14 05:53:02 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 08:53:02 -0400 Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199406141253.AA06724@Warren.MENTORG.COM> $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. ----------------------------------------------------------------- $ G R O U P N A M E C A L E N D A R ----------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE: Thursday, June 16: Cluster Group meetings Topic: TBA All are invited to cluster group meetings! They are social as well as technical. If there isn't one in your area, why not start one? The only requirement is that they are all cluster groups meet simultaniously and have the same topic (yeah, right). This is the second Cluster Night. The first one was amazingly successful. CENTRAL JERSEY: 6pm, The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield. SOUTH JERSEY: 7pm, Brooklawn Diner in Brooklawn. NORTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers. JULY: Thursday, July 21, time TBA Topic: TBD Location: Mt. Laurel See you there! ---------------------- SOUTH JERSEY: The South Jersey Cluster meeting will be held on Thurday, June 16, at 7pm, at the Brooklawn Diner in Brooklawn. Topic TBA, probably June 16, around 8pm. :-) RSVP (highly suggested) to: Bob Snyder Directions to the Brooklawn Diner: >From the NJ Turnpike: Take Exit 4 (Rt. 73) to 73 North. Take 73N less than a mile to I295 South (second offramp) Follow directions for 295 >From Interstate 295: Take 295 South to the 295/76 split. Take the exit for 76 West. Take the exit for 130 South (first offramp on 76) Diner is less than 4 miles ahead, off of the first circle you encounter. >From Philadelphia: Take the Walt Whitman Bridge to NJ. Take the left fork. After the fork, stay in the right lane, and get on 76 East local. Take the exit for 130 South. Diner is less than 4 miles ahead, off of the first circle you encounter. ---------------------- CENTRAL JERSEY: The Central Jersey cluster meeting will be at the Carousel Diner in on Rt 22 (west bound) in Plainfield, NJ at 6:00 pm, Thu June 16. RSVP (greatly appreciated) to: Tom Limoncelli, tal at warren.mentorg.com Directions: >From Rt 287: Take Rt 22 east about 11 miles. You will pass K-Mart then Staples then "VIP Honda". The diner is across the road from the Honda dealer. Go to the next U-turn, turn around, it's soon after you go under the bridge. >From Rt 78: Take exit 40 and go south. At bottom of hill turn right. You are now in a traffic circle, follow the blue "H" (Hospital) signs (i.e. Towards "The Plainfields"). Once out of the circle, go until you hit Rt 22. Turn right onto Rt 22 (you don't have any choice). Diner is on your right. ------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe to the $GROUPNAME mailing list: echo subscribe groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com To receive $GROUPNAME announcements: echo subscribe groupname-announce | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com NOTE: You don't need to be on "groupname" and "groupname-announce". Being on "groupname" gets you everything from both lists. For directions to the next non-cluster meeting: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For our "Calendar Of Events": echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For more information about $GROUPNAME: echo info groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com [ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all of whom have approved or requested such crossposts. ] NOTE: $GROUPNAME used to be called GSLISA (Garden State LISA). From ple at Synopsys.COM Thu Jun 23 15:01:31 1994 From: ple at Synopsys.COM (ple at Synopsys.COM) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 15:01:31 -0700 Subject: Call for Suggestions for SAGE Lifetime Acheivement Award Message-ID: <199406232201.AA27063@gaea.synopsys.com> SAGE is soliciting nominations for its second annual (?) Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented this September in San Diego at the USENIX/SAGE LISA 8 Conference. The SAGE board has set up a special committee to select this year's recipient, and we're inviting your suggestions. The award will go to someone whose contributions, either technical or professional, to the system administration community over a number of years merit special recognition. The first recipients of the award (in 1993) were Max Vasilatos and Rob Kolstad, for their role in organizing the early LISA conferences, and general contributions to the system administration community. The awards committee would like to keep the selection process informal; there isn't a formal nominating procedure, and we will consider all suggestions submitted. So please send in suggestions for people whose accomplishments you believe deserve the recognition of a SAGE Lifetime Achievement Award to sage-award at usenix.org. From ple at Synopsys.COM Thu Jun 23 15:24:08 1994 From: ple at Synopsys.COM (ple at Synopsys.COM) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 15:24:08 -0700 Subject: Call for Suggestions for SAGE Lifetime Acheivement Award Message-ID: <199406232224.AA27976@gaea.synopsys.com> SAGE is soliciting nominations for its second annual (?) Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented this September in San Diego at the USENIX/SAGE LISA 8 Conference. The SAGE board has set up a special committee to select this year's recipient, and we're inviting your suggestions. The award will go to someone whose contributions, either technical or professional, to the system administration community over a number of years merit special recognition. The first recipients of the award (in 1993) were Max Vasilatos and Rob Kolstad, for their role in organizing the early LISA conferences, and general contributions to the system administration community. The awards committee would like to keep the selection process informal; there isn't a formal nominating procedure, and we will consider all suggestions submitted. So please send in suggestions for people whose accomplishments you believe deserve the recognition of a SAGE Lifetime Achievement Award to sage-award at usenix.org. Paul Evans SAGE Secretary From xev at morgan.com Fri Jul 1 10:11:25 1994 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 13:11:25 -0400 Subject: July NYSA Meeting - Randy Johnson and Harris Kern Message-ID: <9407011311.ZM9169@rs7.fid.morgan.com> The next meeting of the New York Systems Administration (NYSA) group will be held on Monday July 18th @ Morgan Stanley, 1251 6th Avenue (exact floor location to be announced), from 6:15PM - 8:30ishPM. We are very excited that the speakers at this meeting will be Randy Johnson and Harris Kern of Sun Microsystem. Harris Kern implemented and supported Sun's first 24x7 Unix production environment for Mission Critical Applications. Randy Johnson was Manager of Telecommunications while Sun grew its networks from under 30 locations to over 100 locations. He is currently in charge of Sun's Data Center. Together they came up with Sun's Unix Production Acceptance Guidelines. They write many articles and have just published a book called "Rightsizing the New Enterprise". This should be a very informative talk. Please note that the meeting is on the THIRD Monday of the month, not the normal second Monday of the month. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Xev Gittler - xev at morgan.com. What is NYSA? NEW YORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION (NYSA, rhymes with "LISA") (or whatever we elect to call this group) mailing list ! Mission of NYSA To promote the interests of Unix systems administrators in the greater New York City area. Goals of NYSA We'll work these out by and by. Why is NYSA important? Systems management is finally coming into its own as a profession. Local systems administration groups are popping up: the oldest and most established is Bay-LISA, the systems administration group for the San Francisco Bay Area. I've been to their meetings; they are well run and people not only get a lot out of them, but they have a really good time, too. With the establishment of SAGE (the "Systems Administrators' Guild", a special Usenix technical group), systems administrators are increasingly able to find outside help with their careers and their day to day work loads. Local groups are important as they provide a "neighborhood" address for your questions and problems. New York City, with its numerous universities and very large corporate Unix environments, is an ideal location for such a group. I've been to many, many Unix sites within New York, and the work that is going on is fascinating. I believe a critical mass of technical people meeting together at NYSA events can do a lot towards pushing forward the state of the art for systems administration in the area. What will NYSA be doing? Every so often we'll get together to discuss matters of importance to systems administrators in New York City. We'll arrange interesting guest speakers, and have time for "ask the guru" discussions and job announcements. NYSA events will be a good place to go to get up to date on the latest news, to meet with your peers from around New York, and to get away from the hassles of a normal work day. Food & drink will be an important part of NYSA events (either during or after, or both!). Can you help? You bet! Right now the people in charge of getting NYSA up and running are Steve Miano and Xev Gittler , aside from myself. Contact either Steve or Xev to see how you can help out. How do I get on the mailing list? Send a request to nysa-request at esm.com requesting that you be added. What is "esm.com"? ESMC (Enterprise Systems Management Corporation) is a consulting firm specializing in the management of very large and widely distributed Unix workstation installations. Although our home office is in California, most of our work (and our staff) is based on Wall Street. I started ESMC so that there'd be a company where systems administrators could work in which they *are* the business. As a manager of systems administrators, I'm very concerned with career issues, technical issues, and in general anything that affects the lives and work of systems administrators. ESMC is the first (and, so far as I know, only) corporate supporting member of SAGE, the Systems Administrators Guild. From tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM Wed Jul 6 14:28:15 1994 From: tom_limoncelli at Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 17:28:15 -0400 Subject: Don Zigo from Auspex to speak at $GROUPNAME Meeting (NEW JERSEY) Message-ID: <199407062128.AA19470@Warren.MENTORG.COM> $GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with a particular hardware or software vendor or company. [ Note: This is posted to the bblisa-announce mailing list at the request of BBLISA. Only the initial announcement is sent, to receive the updates other info please see end of this document. ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- $ G R O U P N A M E C A L E N D A R ----------------------------------------------------------------- JULY: Thursday, July 21, time 7PM Topic: Don Zigo from Auspex talking about the new NS7000 family of high performance NFS file servers. Location: Ben Franklin Room, Digital Equipment Corp, 701 Eastgate Drive, Mt Laurel, NJ 08054 RSVP to tal at plts.org To have directions mailed to you: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com AUGUST: Thursday, August 18: Cluster Group meetings Topic: TBA All are invited to cluster group meetings! They are social as well as technical. If there isn't one in your area, why not start one? The only requirement is that they are all cluster groups meet simultaniously and have the same topic (yeah, right). This is the third Cluster Night. The first two were amazingly successful. CENTRAL JERSEY: 6pm, The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield. SOUTH JERSEY: TBA NORTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers. SEPTEMBER: Thursday, September 21, time TBA Topic: Speaker from Sun Microsystems. Location: TBD OCTOBER: Thursday, June 16: Cluster Group meetings Topic: TBA CENTRAL JERSEY: 6pm, The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield. SOUTH JERSEY: TBD NORTH JERSEY: TBD NOVEMBER: Thursday, November 71, time TBA Topic: Speaker from Novell (?) Location: TBD See you there! ---------------------- For directions to the next non-cluster meeting: echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For our "Calendar Of Events": echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com For more information about $GROUPNAME: echo info groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com To subscribe to the $GROUPNAME mailing list: echo subscribe groupname | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com *OR* if you want to only receive the announcements from this mailing list: echo subscribe groupname-announce | mail majordomo at warren.mentorg.com NOTE: $GROUPNAME used to be called GSLISA (Garden State LISA). From mcrae at cs.unc.edu Wed Jul 6 13:31:22 1994 From: mcrae at cs.unc.edu (Lori McRae) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 16:31:22 -0400 Subject: NC System Administrators Group Meeting - 7/11/94 Message-ID: <199407062031.QAA10755@capehenry.cs.unc.edu> The next meeting of the NC System Administration & Managers organization will be this Monday, July 11, at 6pm. Details about the meeting, our technical program and directions to Strategic Technologies in Cary, NC, are provided below. We hope to see you there!! North Carolina System Administration Interest Group An Overview of the COSE Common Desktop Environment Monday, July 11 Strategic Technologies 301 Gregson Drive Cary, NC 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session The abstract: "CDE will be the default windowing environment provided by all major hardware vendors by early next year. Comprised of the best technologies in the marketplace for creating a networked windowing environment, CDE enables system administrators to provide a unified look and feel across all major platforms. In this presentation we will look at the components that make up the CDE and discuss how they can be exploited in heterogeneous environments." Our speaker will be Mike McMullen of Glaxo, Inc.: Mike McMullen has been involved with UNIX since 1979. During this time he has worked as a systems programmer for the NCSU Computing Center, a consultant for Digital Equipment and until recently a systems engineer for Sun Microsystems. He currently is the manager of the Open Systems group for Glaxo, Inc." Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of the evening. We have once again found a corporate sponsor willing to donate food and drink for the evening. RSVPs are not necessary, but we do encourage them to ensure enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Dept. of Comp. Science Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing UNC - Chapel Hill UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. 120 Sitterson Hall 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 962-1717 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 howell at cs.unc.edu kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, check out our new Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================== Directions to Strategic Technologies in MacGregor Corporate Park: Strategic Technologies 301 Gregson Drive Cary, NC 27511 Tel: (919) 481-9797 >From points north of Raleigh: - Take US 1/I-440 South - Exit at 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive >From Durham, RTP, Raleigh Airport, and points West: - Take US 40 East - Exit onto Exit 293 (US 1 South & Highway 64 West) - Exit at 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive >From Points South of Raleigh: - Take Hwy 401 North or Hwy 70 West - Exit onto I-40 West - Exit onto Exit 293 (US 1 South & Highway 64 West) - Exit 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive >From points East of Raleigh: - Take I-40 West - Exit onto Exit 293 (US 1 South & Highway 64 West) - Exit at 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive From paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu Thu Jul 7 05:50:56 1994 From: paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 94 08:50:56 EDT Subject: SAGE Board elections: Call for Candidates Message-ID: <9407071250.AA18018@rigel.dartmouth.edu> SAGE is accepting nominations for 3 new members of its Board of Directors until October 14 1994, at noon, PST. Anyone interested in running for the SAGE board should send his or her name, contact information (including daytime telephone number) and a brief statement to the nominating committee (sage-nomcom at usenix.org). You may also send postal mail to the SAGE Nominating Committee in care of: USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 The nominating committee will gather the candidates' names and contact each of them before the election takes place. In this election, directors will be chosen for 2 year terms (beginning January 1, 1995) and will join returning Board members Paul Evans, Paul Moriarty, Pat Wilson, and Elizabeth Zwicky (each elected last year to two year terms which began Jan 1, 1994). The SAGE Board chooses its own officers after each general election (every year). At the USENIX LISA Conference, to be held September 19-23, 1994 in San Diego, CA, there will be a candidates' forum to enable candidates to introduce themselves and address the issues. Prospective board members unable to attend the LISA conference will be able to submit a position paper to this forum. All candidates will also be expected to respond for publication to a set of questions presented by the Nominating Committee. There will, in addition, be an on-line forum (most likely a archived mailing list) to enable SAGE members to pose questions to the nominees. The new board will take office in January, 1995, with their first meeting being held at the Winter USENIX conference in New Orleans, Louisianna. Current estimates indicate that the new board will have at least 2 face-to-face meetings a year, one each at LISA and the (winter) USENIX technical conference, and other meetings via teleconference. If you have questions about the nominating process, or what Board membership entails, please contact a member of the Nominating Committee. Chair: Pat Wilson (paw at northstar.dartmouth.edu) Greg Rose (ggr at usenix.org) Barry Wick (wick at ssdevo.enet.dec.com) Elizabeth Zwicky (zwicky at corp.sgi.com) From deleon at cat.hpl.hp.com Fri Jul 8 16:51:00 1994 From: deleon at cat.hpl.hp.com (Laura Kirk de Leon) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 94 16:51:00 PDT Subject: BayLISA: Next Generation Internet Protocol Message-ID: <9407082351.AA16472@cat.hpl.hp.com> July 21st: Dino Farinacci (Cisco) Title: Next Generation Internet Protocol (IPng) Description: The global Internet is going through growing pains. Address space exhaustion is approaching and routing table sizes are becoming too large for modern day routers to handle. IPng will be a new internet network layer protocol to address these problems. This talk will present a bit of history leading up to the proposals put forth today. Describe the IETF structure that supports the proposals. Introduce the various proposals and the mergers that have occured over the course of refinement. And in conclusion, hint at leading candidates and indicate when the IETF will decide. August 18th: Peter Salus: The History of UNIX The Bay-LISA group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest for administration of sites with more than 100 users and/or computers. The meetings are free and open to the public. BayLISA holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM (please do not arrive before 7:00). We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View off Highway 237 at Middlefield. To get further information on the meeting location, you can request it from the majordomo server on baylisa.org, you can ftp it from ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA/location or you can query the BayLISA mail server by cutting and pasting the following line to your shell: echo "index baylisa" | mail majordomo at baylisa.org Starting this May and going through the rest of the summer, we plan on broadcasting our meetings via MBONE. For more information, please send email to: mbone at baylisa.org BayLISA makes video tapes of the meetings available to members. For more information on available videos, please send email to: video at baylisa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at baylisa.org If you have any questions, please contact me or the info alias listed above. From xev at morgan.com Tue Jul 12 10:51:03 1994 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 13:51:03 -0400 Subject: (Fwd) July NYSA Meeting - Randy Johnson and Harris Kern Message-ID: <9407121351.ZM2630@odudua.morgan.com> The next meeting of the New York Systems Administration (NYSA) group will be held on Monday July 18th @ Morgan Stanley, 1251 6th Avenue 19th Floor, from 6:15PM - 8:30ishPM. [I'm not sure how much space we will have, so if you are planning to attend, I'd appreciate it if you could drop me an RSVP. Thanks.] We are very excited that the speakers at this meeting will be Randy Johnson and Harris Kern of Sun Microsystem. Harris Kern implemented and supported Sun's first 24x7 Unix production environment for Mission Critical Applications. Randy Johnson was Manager of Telecommunications while Sun grew its networks from under 30 locations to over 100 locations. He is currently in charge of Sun's Data Center. Together they came up with Sun's Unix Production Acceptance Guidelines. They write many articles and have just published a book called "Rightsizing the New Enterprise". This should be a very informative talk. Please note that the meeting is on the THIRD Monday of the month, not the normal second Monday of the month. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Xev Gittler - xev at morgan.com. ----------------------------------------------------------- Attached from initial NYSA announcement by E. Scott Menter: ----------------------------------------------------------- What is NYSA? NEW YORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION (NYSA, rhymes with "LISA") (or whatever we elect to call this group) mailing list ! Mission of NYSA To promote the interests of Unix systems administrators in the greater New York City area. Goals of NYSA We'll work these out by and by. Why is NYSA important? Systems management is finally coming into its own as a profession. Local systems administration groups are popping up: the oldest and most established is Bay-LISA, the systems administration group for the San Francisco Bay Area. I've been to their meetings; they are well run and people not only get a lot out of them, but they have a really good time, too. With the establishment of SAGE (the "Systems Administrators' Guild", a special Usenix technical group), systems administrators are increasingly able to find outside help with their careers and their day to day work loads. Local groups are important as they provide a "neighborhood" address for your questions and problems. New York City, with its numerous universities and very large corporate Unix environments, is an ideal location for such a group. I've been to many, many Unix sites within New York, and the work that is going on is fascinating. I believe a critical mass of technical people meeting together at NYSA events can do a lot towards pushing forward the state of the art for systems administration in the area. What will NYSA be doing? Every so often we'll get together to discuss matters of importance to systems administrators in New York City. We'll arrange interesting guest speakers, and have time for "ask the guru" discussions and job announcements. NYSA events will be a good place to go to get up to date on the latest news, to meet with your peers from around New York, and to get away from the hassles of a normal work day. Food & drink will be an important part of NYSA events (either during or after, or both!). Can you help? You bet! Right now the people in charge of getting NYSA up and running are Steve Miano and Xev Gittler , aside from myself. Contact either Steve or Xev to see how you can help out. How do I get on the mailing list? Send a request to nysa-request at esm.com requesting that you be added. What is "esm.com"? ESMC (Enterprise Systems Management Corporation) is a consulting firm specializing in the management of very large and widely distributed Unix workstation installations. Although our home office is in California, most of our work (and our staff) is based on Wall Street. I started ESMC so that there'd be a company where systems administrators could work in which they *are* the business. As a manager of systems administrators, I'm very concerned with career issues, technical issues, and in general anything that affects the lives and work of systems administrators. ESMC is the first (and, so far as I know, only) corporate supporting member of SAGE, the Systems Administrators Guild. From xev at morgan.com Thu Jul 14 18:29:14 1994 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 21:29:14 -0400 Subject: Location Change for July NYSA Meeting In-Reply-To: Message from Xev Gittler ("(Fwd) July NYSA Meeting - Randy Johnson and Harris Kern") on Jul 12, 1:51pm References: <9407121351.ZM2630@odudua.morgan.com> Message-ID: <9407142129.ZM23134@rs7.morgan.com> The next meeting of the New York Systems Administration (NYSA) group will be held on Monday July 18th @ Morgan Stanley, 1251 6th Avenue 19th Floor, from 6:15PM - 8:30ishPM. *************************************************************************** Sorry to do this on such short notice, but the location of this meeting has now changed. The NEW LOCATION is 1633 Broadway, on Broadway between 50 & 51 (2 blocks up), 35th floor. When you get to the 35th floor, the guard will direct you to the meeting (after forcing you to sign in). Sorry about the location change, but I thought we'd need the extra space (don't disappoint me now and not show up now! :-) *************************************************************************** We are very excited that the speakers at this meeting will be Randy Johnson and Harris Kern of Sun Microsystem. Harris Kern implemented and supported Sun's first 24x7 Unix production environment for Mission Critical Applications. Randy Johnson was Manager of Telecommunications while Sun grew its networks from under 30 locations to over 100 locations. He is currently in charge of Sun's Data Center. Together they came up with Sun's Unix Production Acceptance Guidelines. They write many articles and have just published a book called "Rightsizing the New Enterprise". This should be a very informative talk. Please note that the meeting is on the THIRD Monday of the month, not the normal second Monday of the month. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Xev Gittler - xev at morgan.com. Since many people have asked... Directions by subway: The 1, 9 stop at 7th Avenue and 50 and the C, E stop at 50 and 8th avenue but if you walk through the tunnel it brings you out at the same location as the 1, 9 which by the way is underground 1633. The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. From nomad at network.ucsd.edu Sat Jul 16 10:56:32 1994 From: nomad at network.ucsd.edu (Lee Damon) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 10:56:32 -0700 Subject: LISA VIII conference BOF schedule Message-ID: <199407161756.KAA09124@network.ucsd.edu> LISA VIII BOFs >From the conference flier: BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS *************************** Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs) allow attendees to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. BOF Sessions are intended to be highly interactive and much less formal than the Technical Sessions. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings in the Town and Country Hotel. We would particularly like to encourage Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions on topics which would not normally be discussed during typical USENIX technical presentations (for instance, discussions on professional and technical issues, non-professional interests common to Systems Administrators, etc.) To schedule a BOF Session, or to request more information, direct your e-mail to Lee Damon, nomad at network.ucsd.edu. BOFs may also be scheduled on-site at the Conference Registration Desk. We have between 7 and 9 rooms a night. A BOF can be booked in half-hour increments from half an hour to 2 hours (or more, if really needed). Tuesday & Wednesday we will start at 6:30pm and Thursday we start at 8:30 (to give people time to get dinner or back from the reception). Here's the list of what's scheduled so far. Tuesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 20:30 WWW Installation, Maintenance, Administration, and assorted Topics 20:30 - 22:30 Automating Sysadmin Tasks Wednesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 19:30 reserved for a secret fun thing :) 19:30 - 20:30 SAGE Board Open Meeting 20:30 - 21:30 SAGE Working Groups Members of the various Working Groups will have a chance to meet and work together on their WG topic. Thursday 20:30 - 22:30 18:00 - 20:00 Conference Reception FOOD!!!! FUN!!!! FROLIC!!! MORE FOOD!!!! 20:30 - 21:30 SAGE Board Candidate's Forum. Meet the candidates for next year's SAGE board. If you want to have schedule a BOF, please contact me at nomad at network.ucsd.edu Thanks, and I'll see you in San Diego! nomad ------------ - Lee "nomad" Damon - \ \ play: nomad at castle.org or castle!nomad \ Sr. Systems Administrator, / \ "Celebrate Diversity" / \ From nomad at network.ucsd.edu Wed Jul 27 20:08:11 1994 From: nomad at network.ucsd.edu (Lee Damon) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 20:08:11 -0700 Subject: Update: LISA_VIII BOF schedule Message-ID: <199407280308.UAA12785@network.ucsd.edu> LISA VIII BOFs >From the conference flier: BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS *************************** Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs) allow attendees to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. BOF Sessions are intended to be highly interactive and much less formal than the Technical Sessions. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings in the Town and Country Hotel. We would particularly like to encourage Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions on topics which would not normally be discussed during typical USENIX technical presentations (for instance, discussions on professional and technical issues, non-professional interests common to Systems Administrators, etc.) To schedule a BOF Session, or to request more information, direct your e-mail to Lee Damon, nomad at network.ucsd.edu. BOFs may also be scheduled on-site at the Conference Registration Desk. To schedule a BOF, contact me at nomad at network.ucsd.edu. I'll need to know about how many people you expect, how long it will take, and which night/time you want. See you in San Diego! --- We have between 7 and 9 rooms a night. A BOF can be booked in half-hour increments from half an hour to 2 hours (or more, if really needed). Tuesday & Wednesday we will start at 6:30pm and Thursday we start at 8:30 (to give people time to get dinner or back from the reception). Here's the list of what's scheduled so far. Tuesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 20:30 WWW Installation, Maintenance, Administration, and assorted Topics (kreiling at cs.unc.edu) Amy K. Kreiling, Univ. North Carolina Open discussion of issues having to do with the installation, configuration & management of a WWW server. Come and share your experiences as the Web Master at your site. We may even decide who should be declared the "WebMaster of the Universe" -- criteria to be determined later. 19:30 - 22:30 Tools for Sysadmin Tasks John Fink, (finkej at rpi.edu) John Simpson (johns at minnie.nic.kingston.ibm.com) Automating and Mechanizing User Administration Tasks is concentrating on the problems of managing large numbers of users while Tools for System Administration Tasks is concentrating on the problems of managing large numbers of systems. The BOF is split in two parts: 19:30 - 21:00 Automating and Mechanizing User Administration Tasks. Many of the tasks of the system administrator can benefit from automation and programming. In many areas vendors are providing tools to assist with that. The problem is, many of these tools don't scale up well. They may be fine for adding a few users a day, or managing a small cluster of machines, but don't cut it when you have to create userids for 2000 new students Some tools for managing large numbers of systems exist (rdist, package(AFS)), but tools for managing large numbers of users seem to be few and far between. We have found that using a relational database has made it much easier to solve many of these problems. What have people been doing to address this problem? What problems have you encountered? How do you get University Administrators to cooperate? What can you give them in return? 21:00 - 22:30 Tools for System Administration Tasks There are many "Publicly Available" tools which are widely used by system administrators. If these tools were identified in an orderly fashion software vendors could integrate them as part of their product offerings. This would save the system administrators research, retreival, and possibly configuration of these tools. We have identified Amd, NTP, SUP, Tcl, Tk, Expect and Perl as useful tools for managing systems. What tools have system administators been using? What are the requirements that we should place on selecting tools (heterogenous, ease of install/configuration, etc.)? How is the quality of the tools that you use? 20:30 - 22:30 Silicon Graphics Administration John E. Schimmel, jes at sgi.com Have problems with Irix or any of your SGI hardware that has not been answered on comp.sys.sgi.admin? Want to know about what is happening inside of SGI? Feel like letting SGI engineers know what you want to see in the next generation of products? Just want to come by and rumormonger? Well that's what this BOF is all about. A few nice people from SGI will show up to try to deal with what comes along. Please bring suggestions for future SGI administration products. Wednesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 19:30 reserved for a secret fun thing :) 19:30 - 20:30 SAGE Board Open Meeting (zwicky at sgi.com) Elizabeth Zwicky, SGI 20:30 - 21:30 SAGE Working Groups (nomad at castle.org) Lee Damon, Castle P.A.U.S. Members of the various Working Groups will have a chance to meet and work together on their WG topic. Majordomo (rouilj at cs.umb.edu) John P. Rouillard, UMB The majordomo mailing list manager has undergone some major changes over the past year. In the next year most of the internals of majordomo are going to be rewritten, and soon new modules of functionality will be added to majordomo. In addition the current code will become a testing bed for the new control mechanisms and the base features we will see in future majordomos. Come and join us when we discuss the fate of majordomo's current and future. Any quips, comments, evasions, questions or answers? 21:30 - 22:30 Networking ATM style (romig at cis.ohio-state.edu) Steve Romig, Ohio State Univ. Using ATM networks - migration plans, share experience with different vendors, problems encountered and solutions explored, etc... Thursday 20:30 - 22:30 18:00 - 20:00 Conference Reception FOOD!!!! FUN!!!! FROLIC!!! MORE FOOD!!!! 20:30 - 21:30 SAGE Board Candidate's Forum. (paw at northstar.dartmouth.edu) Pat Wilson, Dartmouth College Meet the candidates for next year's SAGE board, hear their views on SAGE issues and ask them questions. 21:30 - 22:30 Ohio St. Univ Backup System (romig at cis.ohio-state.edu) Steve Romig, Ohio State Univ. The OSU backup system, for users of it to talk about it and interested parties to find out more about it. 20:30 - 22:30 Firewalls (brent at greatcircle.com) Brent Chapman, Great Circle The Firewalls BOF will be a forum to discuss issues related to constructing and maintaining Internet firewall security systems. An "Internet firewall" could be defined as any system that lets a site access selected services of the Internet, while shielding that site against unauthorized access from the Internet. Current firewall technologies include packet filtering and application-level gateways. Brent Chapman manages the Internet "Firewalls" mailing list. For those of you who prefer visuals: Tuesday (available rooms: rm1-8) time rm1 rm2 rm7 rm8 18:30 WWW Installation, Maintenaince, 19:00 Administration, and assorted 19:30 Topics Tools for " Sysadmin 20:00 " tasks " " 20:30 SGI admin " " " 21:00 " " " " 21:30 " " " " 22:00 " " Wednesday (available rooms: rm1-9) time rm1 rm2 rm7 rm9 18:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXpossibly reservedXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:00 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:30 SAGE Board Open Meeting 20:00 " " 20:30 majordomo SAGE Working " Groups 21:00 " " " " 21:30 ATM networking " 22:00 " Thursday (available rooms: rm1-7,9) time rm1 rm2 rm7 rm9 18:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:00 - Conference - - Reception - 19:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 20:00 20:30 SAGE Board Firewalls Candidate's " 21:00 Forum. " " " 21:30 OSU Backup " System " 22:00 " " Rooms: rm1 - council, 70-80 people rm2 - chamber, 70-80 rm3 - cabinet, 70-80 rm4 - forum, 70-80 rm5 - senate, 70-80 rm6 - committee, 70-80 rm7 - California, 200+ rm8 - Golden West, 200+ rm9 - helix, 30 nomad ------------ - Lee "nomad" Damon - \ work: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \ play: nomad at castle.org or castle!nomad \ Sr. Systems Administrator, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX / \ "Celebrate Diversity" / \ From mcrae at cs.unc.edu Mon Aug 1 12:18:06 1994 From: mcrae at cs.unc.edu (Lori McRae) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 15:18:06 -0400 Subject: NC System Administrator's Meeting, August 8,1994 Message-ID: <199408011918.PAA29377@capehenry.cs.unc.edu> The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators & Managers organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, August 8,1994, at 6pm. Details about the meeting, our technical program and directions to our meeting location are provided in this note. We hope to see you there!! North Carolina System Administration Interest Group FAST NSF FILE SERVERS Monday, August 8, 1994 Becton Dickinson Research Center 21 Davis Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session Our August 8th meeting will be on the topic of Fast NFS File Servers. The topic for our September 12th meeting will be on Transarc's AFS & DFS products. The combination of these two meetings should be valuable for all of us, as we are all involved with data access and storage. The format for the August 8th meeting will consist of a 15 minute presentation by each of the vendors on their products, followed by a question and answer session. The questions will be coming from you, the audience. We have received either confirmations for participation or inquires regarding participation from the following file server vendors: MTI Dan Logan dlogan at ccmgate.mti.com confirmed Auspex Iveta Mitrevics iveta.mitrevics at auspex.com confirmed SUN Eric Melvin eric.melvin at east.sun.com HP Dave Stutler dave_stutler at hpatc1.desk.hp.com Attached is an outline of information we hope the vendors will either cover or partially cover in their presentation period. 1. What approach did your company take in designing it's file server. What makes this approach different? 2. Describe the system hardware configurations. Include network adapters, cache, memory, disks, CPU options, cabinets. 3. How much storage can be made available for each unit installed? How many partitions can this be divided into? Does each support quotas? 4. What versions of NFS are supported? Do you support AFS or DFS? Will the server handle any other protocols? What is required to handle other protocols? How does your server handle cross platform/operating system connectivity (e.g. Novell, Appletalk, etc.)? 5. When the fully configured server reboots, how long will it take? Is an fsck necessary or have you developed a bypass to fsck? 6. How are backups of your server performed? 7. Does your server interface to system administration products like Tivoli, and Epoch Backup? (Name products that will interface.) 8. What type of an administration interface does it provide? Does the product provide any built-in special functions such as an on-line backup and recovery facility? If so, how compatible would the generated media be with other unix systems (eg - can I take the tape to another box and read it)? 9. How easy is it to upgrade the disks, other hardware? What about ROM / server software? Can we buy third party replacement / upgrade parts? How serviceable is your unit? What is the mean time between failures? Between reboots? (data availability) 10. How does your server provide data integrity? Does it use RAID? If so, to what level? 11. What is the list price cost per megabyte if we were to purchase a minimal configuration? How fast can you place a unit in a customer's shop? 12. Do you have any performance comparison charts to show us? Overhead/slide projector will be available.) Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of the evening. We have once again found a corporate sponsor willing to donate food and drink for the evening. RSVPs are not necessary, but we do encourage them to ensure enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Technology Support & Comm Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing Glaxo Inc. UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. Five Moore Drive 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road RTP, NC 27709 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 941-4868 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 wh16923 at usav01.glaxo.com kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, contact our Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================================================================= Directions to the Becton Dickinson Research Center: From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill): Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to exit #280, Davis Dr. At the stop light at the end of the exit ramp, turn left in the direction of Highway 54. Before you come to the next stop light, you should find the entrance to Becton Dickinson on your left. There is another entrance on Highway 54, which would mean taking a left at the stop light at the intersection of Davis Dr. & Highway 54. From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh): Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to exit #280, Davis Dr. At the stop light at the end of the exit ramp, turn left in the direction of Highway 54. Continue through the next stop light. Before you come to the next stop light, you should find the entrance to Becton Dickinson on your left. There is another entrance on Highway 54, which would mean taking a left at the stop light at the intersection of Davis Dr. & Highway 54. Admission to BD will be at the Main Entrance only. Enter the property through either the Davis Drive or Route 54 entrances. Park in Visitor Parking (only about 10 spaces) or in parking areas A, B, C, or D. Proceed to the Main Entrance and check in with the Security Guard. Once in the building, visitors are limited to the dining room area. From adamm at menlo.com Tue Aug 16 05:04:05 1994 From: adamm at menlo.com (Adam S. Moskowitz) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:04:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Call for Terminal Room Volunteers Message-ID: <199408161204.AA20772@world.std.com> This was posted to comp.org.usenix, but I haven't got much of a response. I still need at least 3 more people, probably more. ------------------ Call for Terminal Room Volunteers ------------ As in years past, the terminal room LISA was a big enough success that we've decided to do it again. As always, we need volunteers to make this happen. If you work in the Terminal Room for 10 hours you will receive free registration to the Technical Talks (Wed - Fri). We need a total of eight people (and maybe an alternate or two). The terminal room will be open: September 19 (Mon) 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. 20 (Tue) 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. 21 (Wed) 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. 22 (Thu) 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. (closed 6 - 8 p.m. for the Reception) 23 (Fri) 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. An interested applicant should be able to (minimally): * Answer questions on use of terminal room equipment. Manuals on terminal/modem/printer operation will be provided. * Manage a queue (of people) waiting to use the equipment. If you are interested in working, please fill in the following and return it to adamm at menlo.com. All applications must be received by Sunday, August 21st, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Your 10 hours of work will entitle you to one of the coveted ribbons for your name badge and free registration for the Technical Talks ONLY! You will need to make your own arrangements for transportation, accomodation, and tutorial registration. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= cut here =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Name: Address: City/State/country/zip or postal code: Email Address (25 chars or less): Phone number (daytime and evening, AND the hours you can be reached): 1) Will you be able to attend the LISA Conference if you are not chosen to work in the terminal room? absolutely/probably/maybe/no way 2) Are you a student? a) If you are a student, have you applied for a student scholarship for this conference? 3) Are you planning to take tutorials? If so, which days? 4) Have you attended a Usenix LISA conference before? 5) Have you attended any Usenix conference before? 6) If you are chosen to work in the terminal room, when would you arrive in San Diego? 7) Are there particular talks that you don't want to miss: (List day and time; refer to the abbreviated schedule at the end of this posting for times) 8) Are there other talks that you'd prefer not to miss, but would miss if necessary? 9) Are there other times that you know you will NOT want to work: e.g., do you hate to get up before noon, or stay up past 10:00 p.m., or do you have other commitments that would prevent you from working at some other particular time. 10) Please describe in one paragraph why you want to work in the terminal room and what your qualifications are? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= cut here =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I will send an acknowledgement within a week (well, maybe 8 days) of receiving your application. Applications will be chosen based on a combination of factors which include (not necessarily in this order): an inability to attend the conference otherwise hours available for work (and flexibility of those hours) student status level of interest in helping conference attendees ================================================================ Abbreviated Schedule TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 9:00 - 10:30 Keynote Address 11:00 - 12:30 System Configuration 2:00 - 3:30 Automation 4:00 - 5:30 The Toolbox 6:30 - 10:30 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 9:00 - 10:30 Breaking Into Banks 11:00 - 12:30 Software Configuration 2:00 - 3:30 Works-in-Progress Reports 4:00 - 5:30 Automation, The Sequel 8:00 - 10:30 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 9:00 - 10:30 The User Environment 11:00 - 12:30 Peek A Boo - I See You 2:00 - 3:30 The Automation Revolution ================================================================ To receive a brochure and information on registration and hotel, please contact: USENIX Conference Office Suite 613 22672 Lambert Street El Toro, CA 92630 Telephone # (714) 588-8649 FAX # (714) 588-9706 email address: conference at usenix.org From nomad at network.ucsd.edu Thu Sep 1 15:46:37 1994 From: nomad at network.ucsd.edu (Lee Damon) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 15:46:37 -0700 Subject: LISA VIII BOF schedule Message-ID: <199409012246.PAA00719@network.ucsd.edu> This mail has 2 parts. THe first one describes the BOFs, and the second shows reletive time slots and room sizes. ---part one - descriptions--- LISA VIII BOFs >From the conference flier: BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS *************************** Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs) allow attendees to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. BOF Sessions are intended to be highly interactive and much less formal than the Technical Sessions. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings in the Town and Country Hotel. We would particularly like to encourage Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions on topics which would not normally be discussed during typical USENIX technical presentations (for instance, discussions on professional and technical issues, non-professional interests common to Systems Administrators, etc.) To schedule a BOF Session, or to request more information, direct your e-mail to Lee Damon, nomad at network.ucsd.edu. BOFs may also be scheduled on-site at the Conference Registration Desk. To schedule a BOF, contact me at nomad at network.ucsd.edu. I'll need to know about how many people you expect, how long it will take, and which night/time you want. We have LOTS of space left, but if you want to show up in the conference writeup, you need to reserve now! See you in San Diego! --- We have between 7 and 9 rooms a night. A BOF can be booked in half-hour increments from half an hour to 2 hours (or more, if really needed). Tuesday & Wednesday we will start at 6:30pm and Thursday we start at 8:30 (to give people time to get dinner or back from the reception). Here's the list of what's scheduled so far. Tuesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 20:30 WWW Installation, Maintenance, Administration, and assorted Topics Amy K. Kreiling, Univ. North Carolina, kreiling at cs.unc.edu Open discussion of issues having to do with the installation, configuration & management of a WWW server. Come and share your experiences as the Web Master at your site. We may even decide who should be declared the "WebMaster of the Universe" -- criteria to be determined later. 18:30 - 20:30 Auspex User's Heather Staples, hstaples at auspex.com This BOF is aimed at users/administrators of Auspex NFS servers, and others who are interested in these systems. Auspex servers and the special problems of managing these large NFS installations will be discussed. Auspex technical personnel will attend the session to answer questions and address problems. A list of topics/questions will be prepared in advance and distributed at the BOF to get things going, but other items of interest can be brought up during the session. 19:30 - 20:30 World Cup Computing Wayne Fowers, wayne at compute.com A programmatic technology was used to administer the very large network of approximately 1200 Sun servers and clients which supported all aspects of the games. These systems were spread over nine venues across the U.S. This technology provided efficient deployment of software on those systems under very stringent time constraints. This session discusses the programmatic technology, which can provide a several fold increase in systems administrator productivity through it's use. 19:30 - 22:30 Tools for Sysadmin Tasks Jon Finke, finkej at rpi.edu John Simpson johns at minnie.nic.kingston.ibm.com Automating and Mechanizing User Administration Tasks is concentrating on the problems of managing large numbers of users while Tools for System Administration Tasks is concentrating on the problems of managing large numbers of systems. The BOF is split in two parts: 19:30 - 21:00 Automating and Mechanizing User Administration Tasks. Many of the tasks of the system administrator can benefit from automation and programming. In many areas vendors are providing tools to assist with that. The problem is, many of these tools don't scale up well. They may be fine for adding a few users a day, or managing a small cluster of machines, but don't cut it when you have to create userids for 2000 new students Some tools for managing large numbers of systems exist (rdist, package(AFS)), but tools for managing large numbers of users seem to be few and far between. We have found that using a relational database has made it much easier to solve many of these problems. What have people been doing to address this problem? What problems have you encountered? How do you get University Administrators to cooperate? What can you give them in return? 21:00 - 22:30 Tools for System Administration Tasks There are many "Publicly Available" tools which are widely used by system administrators. If these tools were identified in an orderly fashion software vendors could integrate them as part of their product offerings. This would save the system administrators research, retreival, and possibly configuration of these tools. We have identified Amd, NTP, SUP, Tcl, Tk, Expect and Perl as useful tools for managing systems. What tools have system administators been using? What are the requirements that we should place on selecting tools (heterogenous, ease of install/configuration, etc.)? How is the quality of the tools that you use? 20:30 - 22:30 Women in Systems Administration Vicki Brown, vicki at thor.srl.caltech.edu Join fellow female sysadmins in a not-that-formal gathering where we talk about the "issues" that face us, such as: Is systems administration a "pink collar ghetto"? How do/should we interact with phone reps to get things done quickly without having to prove ourselves? How do/should we interact with male supervisors, coworkers, and users: positions where we are alternately the subjects, peers, and superiors of men? Is there a "best" style to dressing that is inconspicuous, comfortable, and not compromising, or does it depend on a woman's personal style and environment (or day of the week!)? Are there any "issues" at all, or is everything gender-neutral? Bring your heated opinions, friendly advice, and juicy gossip, and meet some great people as the week begins. All interested persons welcome. Wednesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 19:30 reserved for a secret fun thing :) 19:30 - 20:30 SAGE Board Open Meeting Elizabeth Zwicky, SGI, zwicky at sgi.com 20:30 - 21:30 SAGE Working Groups Lee Damon, Castle P.A.U.S., nomad at castle.org Members of the various Working Groups will have a chance to meet and work together on their WG topic. Majordomo John P. Rouillard, UMB, rouilj at cs.umb.edu The majordomo mailing list manager has undergone some major changes over the past year. In the next year most of the internals of majordomo are going to be rewritten, and soon new modules of functionality will be added to majordomo. In addition the current code will become a testing bed for the new control mechanisms and the base features we will see in future majordomos. Come and join us when we discuss the fate of majordomo's current and future. Any quips, comments, evasions, questions or answers? 20:30 - 22:30 Silicon Graphics Administration John E. Schimmel, jes at sgi.com Have problems with Irix or any of your SGI hardware that has not been answered on comp.sys.sgi.admin? Want to know about what is happening inside of SGI? Feel like letting SGI engineers know what you want to see in the next generation of products? Just want to come by and rumormonger? Well that's what this BOF is all about. A few nice people from SGI will show up to try to deal with what comes along. Please bring suggestions for future SGI administration products. 19:30 - 21:30 Sun Managers John DiMarco, jdd at cdf.toronto.edu Open discussions about managing Sun Systems. All aspects of Sun systems are fair game: SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, hardware, and software. All Sun Managers welcome. Bring your problems; somebody else may already have solutions for them. Upgrading to Solaris or thinking about it? Pick the brains of those who've already done it. Done anything interesting lately with your Suns? Tell us all about it. Or just drop by to gab, gripe, wish aloud, shoot the breeze and swap rumours. 21:30 - 22:30 Networking ATM style Steve Romig, Ohio State Univ., romig at cis.ohio-state.edu Using ATM networks - migration plans, share experience with different vendors, problems encountered and solutions explored, etc... Thursday 20:30 - 22:30 18:00 - 20:00 Conference Reception FOOD!!!! FUN!!!! FROLIC!!! MORE FOOD!!!! 20:30 - 22:30 Automounters Brent Callaghan, brent.callaghan at eng.sun.com The topic is automounting, if you are an automounter, autofs, or Amd administrator, this should interest you. Brent Callaghan will lead off with a short presentation on autofs developments and futures, followed by a general discussion on automounting problems and configurations. 21:30 - 22:30 Ohio St. Univ Backup System Steve Romig, Ohio State Univ., romig at cis.ohio-state.edu The OSU backup system, for users of it to talk about it and interested parties to find out more about it. 20:30 - 21:30 CERT Katherine T. Fithen, kfithen at cert.org, cert at cert.org The CERT BOF will be to provide an update CERT, incident trends, etc. 21:30 - 22:30 Firewalls Brent Chapman, Great Circle, brent at greatcircle.com The Firewalls BOF will be a forum to discuss issues related to constructing and maintaining Internet firewall security systems. An "Internet firewall" could be defined as any system that lets a site access selected services of the Internet, while shielding that site against unauthorized access from the Internet. Current firewall technologies include packet filtering and application-level gateways. Brent Chapman manages the Internet "Firewalls" mailing list. ---part two - times--- Tuesday (available rooms: rm1-8) time rm1 rm2 rm7 rm8 18:30 Auspex WWW Installation, " Maintenaince, 19:00 " Administration, " and assorted 19:30 World Cup Computing " Topics Tools for " " " Sysadmin 20:00 " " " tasks " " " " 20:30 Women in Systems " Administration " 21:00 " " " " 21:30 " " " " 22:00 " " " " Wednesday (available rooms: rm1-9) time rm1 rm2 rm3 rm8 18:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXpossibly reservedXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:00 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:30 SAGE Board Sun Managers Open Meeting " 20:00 " " " " 20:30 majordomo SAGE Working SGI admin " " Groups " " 21:00 " " " " " " " " 21:30 ATM networking " " " 22:00 " " " " Thursday (available rooms: rm1-7,9) time rm1 rm2 rm7 rm9 18:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:00 - Conference - - Reception - 19:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 20:00 20:30 Automounters CERT " " 21:00 " " " " 21:30 OSU Backup " Firewalls System " " 22:00 " " " " " " Rooms: rm1 - council, 70-80 people rm2 - chamber, 70-80 rm3 - cabinet, 70-80 rm4 - forum, 70-80 rm5 - senate, 70-80 rm6 - committee, 70-80 rm7 - California, 200+ rm8 - Golden West, 200+ rm9 - helix, 30 ---end nomad ------------ - Lee "nomad" Damon - \ work: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \ play: nomad at castle.org or castle!nomad \ Sr. Systems Administrator, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / \ "Celebrate Diversity" / \ From escott at esm.com Fri Sep 2 16:11:25 1994 From: escott at esm.com (E. Scott Menter) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 15:11:25 -0800 Subject: NYSA - Next Meeting Sept 12 - Topic: IPng and IP Security Issues Message-ID: <9409022213.AA04049@esm.com> I'm pleased to announce that the next meeting of the New York Systems Administrators group (NYSA, rhymes with "Lisa", cute, ain't it?) will be MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 6:30pm at MORGAN STANLEY 1251 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS ( 6th Ave and 50th, enter on 50th Street ) 19TH FLOOR The speaker will be Perry Metzger. I didn't have a chance to get a bio from Perry, but I've known him for some time, so I can probably fake it. Perry is an independent consultant, specializing in systems programming, systems management, application programming, and all sorts of neat stuff. Perry is also deeply involved in the IPng (next generation IP) efforts, so you'll be hearing this info right from the source. Perry is also a player in issues of privacy and personal liberty, and is very knowledgeable in matters cryptographic. Perry used to work at Lehman Brothers, and some time before that, at Bellcore. I'm sure you won't want to miss this. We'll send another announcement out next week, but in case we don't, don't lose this one! Afterwards, we'll adjourn as usual to a local tavern for the libations of our choice. I can't make this one myself: Xev Gittler will be hosting. Directions by subway: The 1, 9 stop at 7th Avenue and 50 and the C, E stop at 50 and 8th avenue but if you walk through the tunnel it brings you out at the same location as the 1, 9 which by the way is underground 1633. The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. What is NYSA? Mission of NYSA To promote the interests of Unix systems administrators in the greater New York City area. Goals of NYSA We'll work these out by and by. Why is NYSA important? Systems management is finally coming into its own as a profession. Local systems administration groups are popping up: the oldest and most established is Bay-LISA, the systems administration group for the San Francisco Bay Area. I've been to their meetings; they are well run and people not only get a lot out of them, but they have a really good time, too. With the establishment of SAGE (the "Systems Administrators' Guild", a special Usenix technical group), systems administrators are increasingly able to find outside help with their careers and their day to day work loads. Local groups are important as they provide a "neighborhood" address for your questions and problems. New York City, with its numerous universities and very large corporate Unix environments, is an ideal location for such a group. I've been to many, many Unix sites within New York, and the work that is going on is fascinating. I believe a critical mass of technical people meeting together at NYSA events can do a lot towards pushing forward the state of the art for systems administration in the area. What will NYSA be doing? Every so often we'll get together to discuss matters of importance to systems administrators in New York City. We'll arrange interesting guest speakers, and have time for "ask the guru" discussions and job announcements. NYSA events will be a good place to go to get up to date on the latest news, to meet with your peers from around New York, and to get away from the hassles of a normal work day. Food & drink will be an important part of NYSA events (either during or after, or both!). Can you help? You bet! Contact the coordinating committee at nysa-cc at esm.com to find out how. How do I get on the mailing list? Send a request to nysa-request at esm.com requesting that you be added. What is "esm.com"? ESMC (Enterprise Systems Management Corporation) is a consulting firm specializing in the management of very large and widely distributed Unix workstation installations. Although our home office is in California, most of our work (and our staff) is based on Wall Street. I started ESMC so that there'd be a company where systems administrators could work in which they *are* the business. As a manager of systems administrators, I'm very concerned with career issues, technical issues, and in general anything that affects the lives and work of systems administrators. ESMC is the first (and, so far as I know, only) corporate supporting member of SAGE, the Systems Administrators Guild. +------------------------------------- E. Scott Menter, President escott at esm.com Enterprise Systems Management Corporation 2522 Chambers Road, Suite 110 +1-714-573-4075 Tustin, California 92680 +1-714-573-4076 FAX "I'm sorry there are no napkins, but from time to time a large shaggy dog will pass among you" From xev at morgan.com Thu Sep 8 09:00:22 1994 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 12:00:22 -0400 Subject: NYSA - Next Meeting Sept 12 - Topic: IPng and IP Security Issues Message-ID: <9409081200.ZM20062@odudua.morgan.com> I'm pleased to announce that the next meeting of the New York Systems Administrators group (NYSA, rhymes with "Lisa", cute, ain't it?) will be MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 6:30pm at MORGAN STANLEY 1251 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS ( 6th Ave and 50th, enter on 50th Street ) 19TH FLOOR The speaker will be Perry Metzger. "The Internet is being slowly strangled by its own success. Within a few years, the current 32 bit IP address space will be exhausted, and security problems on the net now regularly become the subject of newspaper articles. At the recent IETF meeting in Toronto, consensus was reached on the design of a new version of the Internet Protocol, to be called IPv6, which is designed to allow the net to expand into the far future. At the same meeting, the IP Security Working Group came to consensus on the lower layers of a network layer internet security protocol. Perry Metzger will talk about these and other related topics." Perry is an independent consultant, specializing in systems programming, systems management, application programming, and all sorts of neat stuff. Perry is also deeply involved in the IPng (next generation IP) efforts, so you'll be hearing this info right from the source. Perry is also a player in issues of privacy and personal liberty, and is very knowledgeable in matters cryptographic. Perry used to work at Lehman Brothers, and some time before that, at Bellcore. I'm sure you won't want to miss this. We'll send another announcement out next week, but in case we don't, don't lose this one! Afterwards, we'll adjourn as usual to a local tavern for the libations of our choice. I can't make this one myself: Xev Gittler will be hosting. Directions by subway: The 1, 9 stop at 7th Avenue and 50 and the C, E stop at 50 and 8th avenue but if you walk through the tunnel it brings you out at the same location as the 1, 9 which by the way is underground 1633. The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. What is NYSA? Mission of NYSA To promote the interests of Unix systems administrators in the greater New York City area. Goals of NYSA We'll work these out by and by. Why is NYSA important? Systems management is finally coming into its own as a profession. Local systems administration groups are popping up: the oldest and most established is Bay-LISA, the systems administration group for the San Francisco Bay Area. I've been to their meetings; they are well run and people not only get a lot out of them, but they have a really good time, too. With the establishment of SAGE (the "Systems Administrators' Guild", a special Usenix technical group), systems administrators are increasingly able to find outside help with their careers and their day to day work loads. Local groups are important as they provide a "neighborhood" address for your questions and problems. New York City, with its numerous universities and very large corporate Unix environments, is an ideal location for such a group. I've been to many, many Unix sites within New York, and the work that is going on is fascinating. I believe a critical mass of technical people meeting together at NYSA events can do a lot towards pushing forward the state of the art for systems administration in the area. What will NYSA be doing? Every so often we'll get together to discuss matters of importance to systems administrators in New York City. We'll arrange interesting guest speakers, and have time for "ask the guru" discussions and job announcements. NYSA events will be a good place to go to get up to date on the latest news, to meet with your peers from around New York, and to get away from the hassles of a normal work day. Food & drink will be an important part of NYSA events (either during or after, or both!). Can you help? You bet! Contact the coordinating committee at nysa-cc at esm.com to find out how. How do I get on the mailing list? Send a request to nysa-request at esm.com requesting that you be added. What is "esm.com"? ESMC (Enterprise Systems Management Corporation) is a consulting firm specializing in the management of very large and widely distributed Unix workstation installations. Although our home office is in California, most of our work (and our staff) is based on Wall Street. I started ESMC so that there'd be a company where systems administrators could work in which they *are* the business. As a manager of systems administrators, I'm very concerned with career issues, technical issues, and in general anything that affects the lives and work of systems administrators. ESMC is the first (and, so far as I know, only) corporate supporting member of SAGE, the Systems Administrators Guild. From office at sug.org Thu Sep 8 10:43:10 1994 From: office at sug.org (office at sug.org) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 13:43:10 EDT Subject: "UNIX & The Law" Symposium, Austin, TX Message-ID: <9409081743.AA27609@bridge.sug.org> SUN USER GROUP Annual Technical Symposium "UNIX & The Law" November 14-17, 1994 Austin, TX As computers are utilized in more and more aspects of everyday life, the once distinct areas of technology, legislature, and law enforcement draw closer together. This unique technical conference provides a forum in which members of these three fields can meet to share experiences and ideas. The four day technical program (a day of tutorials, two days of talks, and another day of tutorials) will provide you with essential knowledge, whether your field is technical, legal, or law enforcement. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER: | | Earlybird Savings Deadline: October 3, 1994 | | Registrations must be received at the Sun User Group offices | | by October 3, 1994 to be eligible for Earlybird savings | | | | Hotel Discount Reservation Deadline: October 21, 1994 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: MONDAY, November 14, 1994 - TUTORIAL PROGRAM TUESDAY, November 15, 1994 - TECHNICAL SESSIONS WEDNESDAY, November 16, 1994 - TECHNICAL SESSIONS THURSDAY, November 17, 1994 - TUTORIAL PROGRAM TUTORIALS: ---------- The SUG Tutorial Program brings experienced training professionals to you. Courses are presented by skilled teachers who are hands-on experts in their topic areas. The tutorials will cover a variety of topics relating to Sun/SPARC and x86-based machines, running any of a number of operating systems. Those who attend the tutorials will benefit from this unique opportunity to develop essential skills in a unique combination of UNIX system security, ethical, and legal topics. The tutorial program at Austin is divided into two days, with both full- and half-day tutorials offered. Attendees may select any non-overlapping set of classes. To ensure adequate seating and to reduce crowding, we are requiring that registrants pre-register for specific classes. Please note that some prior knowledge is required for the advanced tutorials. SUG's tutorial program is always in demand, and some tutorials are almost guaranteed to sell out before registration closes. Attendance is limited, and pre-registration is strongly recommended. On-site registration is possible ONLY if space permits. Monday, November 14, 1994 Tutorials ----------------------------------- M1 - 9:00am-5:00pm Advanced UNIX Security Matt Bishop, UC Davis Prerequisites: an understanding of the basic protection mechanisms of UNIX systems (real and effective UIDs and GIDs, file protection modes, etc.) Intended audience: system administrators, system programmers, and users, especially those interested in the underpinnings of UNIX system security; those needing to write programs which change privileges of their users; those worried about computer worms, viruses, and other nasties and who want to learn how to limit their damage; and those interested in more than a simple cookbook list of ways to protect a UNIX system * UNIX and passwords: how passwords are stored, details of the hashing (password encryption) algorithm, password cracking, password management; schemes for selecting and/or assigning passwords. This part involves a somewhat technical discussion of the cryptographic techniques used in the UNIX password hashing function. * how to manage privileges: managing a super-user account; managing less powerful system management accounts; managing system resources * Writing setuid programs: when not to use them; when to use them; approaches, alternatives, common pitfalls, considerations, some details about which library functions and system calls are safe to use, and which have dangerous effects or side effects. We will examine a setuid program designed to give temporary privileges as part of this. * Trojan horses, computer worms, and other malicious logic: how malicious logic works, how UNIX security mechanisms interact with it; ways to protect yourself and your system; some famous incidents (Internet worm of 1988, etc.) and what lessons they teach. * UNIX and network security: overview of Kerberos, Privacy-Enhanced electronic mail, and Secure RPC (including a technical discussion of the role of cryptography, and how the ciphers work) NFS and NIS (formerly YP); how to forge and intercept network traffic; network-based daemons; well-known security holes and why they arise; the many lives of UUCP. * X11 Window System security: how to set it up, and its limits and benefits * Some of the better-known, and pernicious, security holes and how to plug them or detect their use * Suggestions for detecting intrusions, what to look for, and what to do; planning for an attack; resources M2 - 9:00am-5:00pm Internet & The Law Dan Appelman, Heller, Ehrman, McAuliffe & White Intended Audience: Anyone interested in the legal issues that arise out of the increasing use and popularity of the Internet. The examination of the intersection of technology, law, and public policy is of particular interest to system administrators, contract administrators, and company executives who need to develop policies about doing business electronically. The focus of this tutorial is an examination of the kinds of problems which arise as commercial institutions make increasing use of electronic data communications and the legal bases for resolving those problems. We examine the areas of law involved when commercial institutions use the Internet, namely: privacy, confidentiality, and security; the ownership of proprietary information; the enforceability of legal transactions; criminal activities; and export compliance. We begin by presenting "case studies" of problems from each of these areas, and then giving the participants background knowledge of the general principles of law in each area. Next, we guide the attendees as they attempt to apply those principles (from "old law") to the modern context. In most cases, we see that such application, however necessary, puts fascinating stresses and strains on the legal system and forces it to confront new questions of public policy. This tutorial will make you aware of the emerging issues in electronic data communication and will help you become an informed participant in the larger debate. Most importantly, however, armed with the information presented in this tutorial, you will be better prepared to deal with the ever-changing face of technology in your day-to-day work. Thursday, November 17, 1994 Tutorials ----------------------------------- T1 - 9:00am-5:00pm Network Security: The Kerberos Approach Daniel V. Geer, OpenVision Technologies Intended Audience: * Systems administrators who are concerned about, or must mitigate, the inherent lack of security and accountability in conventional UNIX network services environments now * Systems developers responsible for applications for networked workstation environments, particularly those whose environments include networks which are not themselves physically secure (i.e. "open networks") * Technical managers in enterprises where the flow of electronic information is the core of that enterprise and must be protected without imposing the costs of a "security culture" We will focus on the practical challenges of providing security for the cooperative electronic workplace, workplaces that aspire to location and scale independence in the client-server idiom. We begin by briefly describing network security from a general point of view, so that you will understand the kinds of threats which result from operating conventional systems in an open environment. We then describe what effective approaches can exist to meeting these threats, with the emphasis more on the practical than the theoretic. We will show you where common fallacies are, such as the idea that your organization's security is materially dependent on close control of external access (rather than competent internal security mechanisms). We will explain the Kerberos network security system primarily, but we will also touch on public-key techniques, the X.509 authentication model and the Internet's Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM). Kerberos is the core of the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE), and we will thoroughly discuss the DCE extensions and enhancements to Kerberos that made it into the de facto standard for network security. We will stress throughout nuts-and-bolts of making this work in your environment, including administration and integration of this technology with your existing environments. By the end of the day, you will be able to go home and start work on a computing environment that is both open and accountable. T2 - 9:00am-5:00pm Joining the Internet Safely Using UNIX and Firewalls Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Intended Audience: System and network administrators; Technical and operational managers; Those considering an Internet connection for their site Pre-requisites: knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS/BIND, and sendmail Connecting to the Internet is an exciting event for every organization. The security implications can often bring hesitation, though. This practical tutorial outlines details and examples of UNIX network security and Internet connectivity issues. Site policies and topologies that implement them will be covered, including packet-filtering, application-level, and circuit-level gateways. Overviews of current, publically-available solutions, will be provided, focusing on complete examples for configuring an Internet firewall. T3a - 9:00am-12:30pm Ethics and Systems Administration S.Lee Henry, Johns Hopkins University System administrators find themselves increasingly involved in ethical dilemmas that pit security against privacy, and threaten to disrupt the delicate balance between personal interests and work commitment. What if someone works 12 hours a day, but plays games during lunch? What if someone personally profits from software they develop and use on the job or from knowledge that they gain at the company's expense? And what do you do when the infractions are clearly illegal? When a colleague is reading someone else's mail or trying to break into another organization's system? What if the violator is your boss? Can you establish and administer security and ethics policies that are comprehensive but not invasive? Policies that guard against abuse while not handcuffing on the people whose commitment and creativity your organization most needs for it to succeed? This highly interactive, fast-paced tutorial will challenge system administrators to come to grips with some difficult ethical dilemmas. T3b - 1:30pm- 5:00pm Catching the Wily Hacker John Smith, Computer Crime Unit, Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office An intruder has gained access to your computer system. How do you explain what was stolen and how to a police detective who thinks you're speaking a foreign language? How can you, the system administrator, help the detectives write the report or explain to them that they might have to do the examination of any recovered evidence such as a copied account? Actual cases of computer crimes in Silicon Valley are used as examples. Students will follow what has to be done in an investigation, step by step, including the initial reports that would be the basis of any search warrants or restraining orders. The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Officer Hi Tech/Computer Crime Team has had years of experience investigating and prosecuting trade secret thefts, network intrusions, chip thefts, and other types of high tech thefts in Silicon Valley. This experience is interesting and can serve as a means of educating computer administrators how to protect their computers and systems, how to prepare an investigation, how to get the appropriate law enforcement support, and how to prepare to testify in court if necessary. Topics covered include: How to find law enforcement personnel with sufficient expertise to assist you. Law enforcement associations you can contact for help. When do you need a search warrant to recover lost property/data or to recover evidence. Initiating civil litigation. What law enforcement agents need from system administrators. What to expect if the case goes to trial. How you can protect proprietary or trade secret documents related to the case. What to expect if you are called as a witness. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS: Daniel Appelman is a Partner in the law firm, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe. He practices computer, telecommunications and intellectual property law in its Palo Alto office. Dan frequently writes and speaks about topics of current interest in the computer and telecommunications industries. He is particularly interested in the legal issues resulting from the merging of products and services in those industries, the commercialization of the Internet and the proposals for the National Information Infrastructure. Matt Bishop, Ph.D. was a research scientist at the University of California at Davis. His research areas include computer and network security, and he teaches both, along with operating systems and software engineering. He chaired the first two UNIX Security Workshops, and his column on computer security appears regularly in the Best Practises newsletter. Tina Darmohray is a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tina built her first firewall five years ago. Since that time she has lectured extensively on the topic of firewalls and their configuration, giving tutorials at conferences in the US and Europe. Recently she has begun consulting and has installed numerous firewalls at sites connecting to the Internet. Daniel E. Geer, Jr., Sc.D., is Chief Scientist and VP of Open Vision Technologies. Dr. Geer has worked in network security and distributed systems management, and he was Manager of Systems Development for MIT's Project Athena. At MIT, he was responsible for all technical development, including X, Kerberos, Hesiod, Zephyr, Moira, and all other aspects of the Project Athena Network Services System. He is a frequent speaker, popular teacher and member of several professional societies. S. Lee Henry is a columnist for SunExpert magazine. She manages Computer Systems and Networking for the Physics and Astronomy Department at Johns Hopkins University and is on the Board of Directors of the Sun Users Group. Prior to working at JHU, she spent almost ten years as a UNIX systems administrator in the CIA. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: ----------------- The Sun User Group is pleased to present two topical and informative keynote speakers, one on each day of the symposiums technical sessions. STEVE JACKSON, founder, Steve Jackson Games "Privacy, Responsibility, and Computers" Tuesday, November 15, 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. DENISE VOIGHT CRAWFORD, commissioner, Texas Securities Commission "Financial Fraud on the Internet" Wednesday, November 16, 9 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. TECHNICAL SESSIONS (Tuesday, November 15 & Wednesday, November 16): ------------------------------------------------------------------- "UNIX & The Law" features three distinct parallel tracks of talks: Technical; Legal; and Law Enforcement. The TECHNICAL track will focus on nuts and bolts of maintaining a UNIX or Sun system. These talks will cover the all of the newest developments in the changing world of technology. There are talks from the experts on: UNIX and network security; encryption; software distribution in a client/server environment; firewalls. The LEGAL track will cover up-to-date issues of privacy and morality, as well as in-depth examinations of the current and changing laws pertaining to software and hardware. Legal professionals from all over the country will examine how changing technologies will necessitate changes in the law. The LAW ENFORCEMENT track discusses computers as tools. Tools which can help in the prevention of crimes -- or in the commission of them. Join or experts in high-tech crime as the discuss the discovery, investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of crackers, software pirates, and bandits on the information on the information superhighway. SPECIAL FEATURE: Panel: "The Future of Computer Crime" Join noted futurist Bruce Sterling (author of The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier") as he and a panel of experts from both sides of the law discuss and predict the uses and abuses of computers into the next century. Scheduled Papers: ----------------- Issues in the Development of Practical Tests in Computer Programming Dr Keith Carter, Griffith University Software Licensing Flexibility Complements the Digital Age Fred M. Greguras, Fenwick & West Cryptography, the Legal and Policy Morass Chad Huston, Schlumberger Austin Research So you Want To Be a Multimedia Star? Chad Huston, Schlumberger Austin Research CERT Internet Security Update Moira J. West, Technical Coordinator, Computer Emergency Response Team Someone's been reading my E-mail! Privacy protection for electronic mail users in the US and the EC. Charisse Castagnoli, University of Texas Law School The future of High-technology crime - a parallel delphi study Inspector Larry Coutorie, Office of the Director of Police, The University of Texas System Post-Mortem Analysis of an Incident Randy Marchany, VA Tech Computing Center Computer law in the international context: a view from Russia. Ilya Nikiforov, Case Western Reserve University License Management Matt Christiano and Richard Mirabella, Globetrotter Software How to Protect Your Software With the Copyright, Patent and Trade Secret and Trademark Laws Susan Nycum, Baker & McKenzie E-Mail Privacy and the UNIX Sysadmin Edward Cavazos, Andrews & Kurth L.L.P. The US Department of Justice and our National Software Interests: Getting to the Source Michael Tiemann & Wendell Baker, Cygnus Support BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS --------------------------- Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs) allow attendees to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. BOF Sessions are intended to be highly interactive and much less formal than the Technical Sessions. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions will be held Wednesday evening at the Driskill Hotel. 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Direct your letter to the Sun User Group office. You may telephone to substitute another in your place. FOR FURTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Sun User Group 1330 Beacon Street Suite 315 Brookline, MA 02146 Telephone: (617) 232-0514 Fax: (617) 232-1347 Electronic Mail Address: conference at sug.org You may FAX your registration form if paying by credit card or purchase order to (617) 232-1347. If you FAX registration, to avoid duplicate billing, do not mail additional copy. You may telephone our office to confirm receipt of your fax. ********************************************************************* PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY REGISTRATION FORM. REGISTRATION VIA EMAIL IS ACCEPTABLE WITH A CREDIT CARD ********************************************************************* From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Thu Sep 8 11:44:34 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 14:44:34 -0400 Subject: NC System Administrators meetings -- AFS & DFS, 9/12/94 Message-ID: <199409081844.OAA05391@widor.cs.unc.edu> The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators & Managers organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, September 12, at 6pm. Details about the meeting, our technical program and directions to our meeting location are provided in this note. We hope to see you there!! North Carolina System Administration Interest Group Distributed File Systems, AFS and DFS Monday, September 12, 1994 Dreyfus Auditorium Research Triangle Institute Research Triangle Park, NC 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session Our speakers for the evening will be Marybeth Schultz and Audrey Dunning of Transarc Corporation. The program will focus on the technical features of the distributed file systems, as seen from the system & network administrators point of view. Product overviews for both the AFS and DFS products will be presented, covering what is shipping and available today versus the future. Finally, Transarc's migration strategy for moving their customers from AFS to DFS will be presented. Plenty of time will be provided for questions and answers, as well. Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of the evening. We have once again found a corporate sponsor willing to donate food and drink for the evening. RSVPs are not necessary, but we do encourage them to ensure enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Technology Support & Comm Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing Glaxo Inc. UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. Five Moore Drive 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road RTP, NC 27709 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 941-4868 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 wh16923 at usav01.glaxo.com kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, contact our Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================== Upcoming events of interest to North Carolina System Administrators: Sept 12, 5:00pm NC*SA Steering Committee meeting The NC*SA steering committee meets an hour prior to the general meeting, typically in or near our general meeting location. The steering committee meetings are open to any interested parties. Sept 23, 1:30pm NC System Administrators Lecture Modules: Managing Software and User Environments John L. Furlani The NC Lecture Series is broadcast over the NC-REN video teleconferencing network. The lectures are broadcast on the 4th Friday of every month. For information about receiving this broadcast at your NC-REN site, please contact your NC-REN representative. For information about the lecture series, please contact Amy Kreiling. ============================== Directions to Research Triangle Institute From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill): Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway - North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound. Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh): Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway - North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From north of RTP (e.g. Durham): Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Thu Sep 8 11:43:45 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 14:43:45 -0400 Subject: NC System Administrators meetings -- AFS & DFS, 9/12/94 Message-ID: <199409081843.OAA05384@widor.cs.unc.edu> The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators & Managers organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, September 12, at 6pm. Details about the meeting, our technical program and directions to our meeting location are provided in this note. We hope to see you there!! North Carolina System Administration Interest Group Distributed File Systems, AFS and DFS Monday, September 12, 1994 Dreyfus Auditorium Research Triangle Institute Research Triangle Park, NC 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session Our speakers for the evening will be Marybeth Schultz and Audrey Dunning of Transarc Corporation. The program will focus on the technical features of the distributed file systems, as seen from the system & network administrators point of view. Product overviews for both the AFS and DFS products will be presented, covering what is shipping and available today versus the future. Finally, Transarc's migration strategy for moving their customers from AFS to DFS will be presented. Plenty of time will be provided for questions and answers, as well. Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of the evening. We have once again found a corporate sponsor willing to donate food and drink for the evening. RSVPs are not necessary, but we do encourage them to ensure enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Technology Support & Comm Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing Glaxo Inc. UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. Five Moore Drive 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road RTP, NC 27709 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 941-4868 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 wh16923 at usav01.glaxo.com kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, contact our Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================== Upcoming events of interest to North Carolina System Administrators: Sept 12, 5:00pm NC*SA Steering Committee meeting The NC*SA steering committee meets an hour prior to the general meeting, typically in or near our general meeting location. The steering committee meetings are open to any interested parties. Sept 23, 1:30pm NC System Administrators Lecture Modules: Managing Software and User Environments John L. Furlani The NC Lecture Series is broadcast over the NC-REN video teleconferencing network. The lectures are broadcast on the 4th Friday of every month. For information about receiving this broadcast at your NC-REN site, please contact your NC-REN representative. For information about the lecture series, please contact Amy Kreiling. ============================== Directions to Research Triangle Institute From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill): Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway - North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound. Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh): Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway - North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From north of RTP (e.g. Durham): Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From jim at math.psu.edu Fri Sep 9 05:53:48 1994 From: jim at math.psu.edu (Jim Duncan) Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 08:53:48 -0400 Subject: ABSTRACTS -- USENIX 8th Systems Administration Conference Message-ID: <199409091253.IAA14913@augusta.math.psu.edu> This posting contains the abstracts of papers to be presented in the Technical Sessions of the upcoming LISA VIII Conference in San Diego, merged with the schedule for the conference. Any typographical errors are probably mine. Jim ======================= WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - 9:00am-10:30am Jack Stanley, Houston Chronicle The Road To UNIX: A Report from the Fourth Estate Mr. Jack Stanley is Vice President of Operations for the Houston Chronicle and the architect of their transition from a mainframe system to a UNIX-based network that supports over 500 users at any given time in offices located in Texas and Washington. He has over 30 years experience in systems programming and applications development. ----------------------- REFEREED TRACK - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION -11:00am-12:30pm Session Chair: Mark Verber, Xerox PARC Central System Administration in a Heterogeneous Unix Environment: GeNUAdmin Dr. Magnus Harlander - GeNUA mbH, Mnchen, Germany GeNUAdmin is an automatic system administration tool to control the configuration and administration of Unix workstations of different vendors from a central management host. All relevant data about the system are kept in a central data repository. The configuration for each machine is extracted from these databases. Configuration files and installation methods are generated for many different architectures. Before calculating and updating the configuration of each machine many consistency checks using pattern matching or inherent data correlations are performed. This assures data consistency as well as configuration consistency for a large number of machines and users. The system is written in perl and creates Bourne shell scripts to accomplish its tasks. The prerequisites for using it are minimal. GeNUAdmin is available without charge. ----- Config: A Mechanism for Installing and Tracking System Configurations John P. Rouillard and Richard B. Martin - University of Massachusetts at Boston One problem that faces system administrators is how to install and maintain local configuration information on a large number of machines. Some previous approaches such as cloning [2] help, but they only provide a baseline, not ongoing configuration control. Other mechanisms such as Typecast [7], Hobgoblin [5], Scrape [3] or Mkserv [6] assist in the configuration process, and provide some support for ongoing maintenance. However supporting multiple system configurations is still troublesome. Also it can be very difficult to delegate system administration tasks. Insufficient logging of file changes can create a nightmare when attempting to find the cause of a problem. The method we present uses rdist and integrates it with make(1) and the CVS version control system to provide the ability to delegate and log changes. End node users can make changes to their workstations, however all changes are logged, so that it is possible to see what has changed on a given machine when problems occur. When making changes that affect a large number of machines (e.g., amd automount maps, rc files) previous versions of the file are available in the CVS tree and can be retrieved and distributed in case of unforeseen problems. ----- Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System Paul Anderson - University of Edinburgh This paper presents a machine configuration system which stores all configuration parameters in a central ``database''. The system is dynamic in the sense that machines reconfigure themselves to reflect any changes in the database whenever they are rebooted. The use of a central database allows configurations to be validated, and correct configurations to be automatically generated from policy rules and high-level descriptions of the network. A permanent record of every machine configuration is always available and the system is extensible to handle configuration of new subsystems in a modular way. The paper includes a review of previously published work and common techniques for cloning and configuring workstations. ---------- INVITED TALK: Purchasing a Workstation Installation Peter Galvin, Brown University ----------------------- REFEREED TRACK - AUTOMATION - 2:00pm-3:30pm Session Chair: Hal Stern, Sun Microsystems OMNICONF - Making OS Upgrades and Disk Crash Recovery Easier Imazu Hideyo - Matsushita Electric OS upgrades are a headache because after installing a new OS, many files and directories need to be modified or created by hand, to restore the host's previous (pre-upgrade) configuration. On the other hand, saving entire / and /usr file systems for crash recovery is redundant because most files are unchanged, and copies exist on distribution media. In addition, restoring from backups after a disk crash is not as easy as an OS installation from distribution media because OS installation software does not necessarily include utilities to aid in doing so. Difficulties in performing OS upgrades and disk crash recoveries are dramatically reduced if a complete set of ``changes'' (a set of changes is called a ``configuration'' in this paper) which have occurred throughout / and /usr can be observed and saved. ``Change'' means: 1) addition and deletion of files and directories; 2) modification of the content and status of files and directories. Dealing with changes is non- trivial because conventional commands such as tar, cpio, and dump cannot handle deletion and cannot alter the permissions of a file without restoring its contents. If configurations can be stored under a single directory, OS upgrades become easier because the configuration can be restored by a simple operation after the upgrade. Instead of saving all files in / and /usr, one only needs to save changes to those file systems. One can easily perceive what the entire configuration is and modify merely a part of it. In this paper, the author introduces a tool called ``OMNICONF'', which stores and restores ``configurations'' to and from a specified directory. OMNICONF is implemented in 2400 lines of Perl[1] code, under the concept shown above. ----- Automated Upgrades in a Lab Environment Paul Riddle - University of Maryland, Baltimore County Back in the late 80s and early 90s, when disk drives were expensive, it was more economical to buy one server and configure it with enough disk space to support several "diskless" workstations. Now that disks are cheaper, most workstations now come with internal disks which contain an entire bootable operating system. Most vendors provide ways of automatically upgrading multiple "diskless" workstations; unfortunately, the same is not true for "diskfull" configurations. Upgrading "diskfull" workstations typically involves either a lot of manpower or a lot of tedious, repetitive work. In any moderate to large sized network, something needs to be done to automate the upgrade process. This paper describes a scheme which we use to upgrade our various networks of Silicon Graphics workstations. Interestingly, it relies on the same technology that allows "diskless" workstations to boot over the network. ----- Tenwen: The Re-engineering of a Computing Environment Remy Evard - Northeastern University In the summer of 1992, the computing environment at the College of Computer Science of Northeastern University was completely dysfunctional. Among other things, the network was down over 25 percent of the time, the computers and software were badly misconfigured, the users were confused, and it was nearly impossible to administer. It was on the verge of collapse. Now, two years later, the situation is entirely reversed. The network is up well over 99 percent of the time, the computers and software are easily managed, and the users are (for the most part) satisfied. Many people have stated that it is the nicest and most functional computing environment they've ever used. This paper is an overview of the key changes that we made and the methodology that we used in bringing about this transformation. I examine the lessons we learned as well as the mistakes we made, and offer advice to others starting with a similar predicament. ---------- INVITED TALK: Plenty of Confusion (PC) on the Network Craig Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology ----------------------- REFEREED TRACK - THE TOOLBOX - 4:00pm-5:30pm Session Chair: Pat Parseghian, AT&T Bell Laboratories Kernel Mucking in Top William LeFebvre - Argonne National Laboratory* For many years, the popular program top has aided system administrations in examination of process resource usage on their machines. Yet few are familiar with the techniques involved in obtaining this information. Most of what is displayed by top is available only in the dark recesses of kernel memory. Extracting this information requires familiarity not only with how bytes are read from the kernel, but also what data needs to be read. The wide variety of systems and variants of the Unix opeating system in today's marketplace makes writing such a program very challenging. This paper explores the tremendous diversity in kernel information across the many platforms and the solutions employed by top to achieve and maintain ease of portability in the presence of such divergent systems. ----- Handling Passwords with Security and Reliability in Background Processes Don Libes - National Institute of Standards and Technology Traditionally, background automation of interactive processes meant giving up security and reliability. With the advent of software such as Expect for controlling interactive processes, it has become possible to improve reliability and security with relative ease. This paper reviews the reliability aspects but focuses primarily on the security aspects, presenting several non-obvious techniques for dealing with passwords and other sensitive information in background processes. These techniques require no changes to existing programs and no new security systems are necessary. With the appropriate tools and examples, these techniques can be applied with surprisingly little effort to a wide variety of problems. ---------- INVITED TALK: DCE's Impact on System Administrators Rich Salz, Open Software Foundation ====================== THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 ENCORE PRESENTATION - 9:00am-10:30am Breaking into Banks: Security Lessons Learned from Financial Services Dan Geer, OpenVision Technologies ----------------------- REFEREED TRACK - SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION - 11:00am-12:30pm Session Chair: Paul Evans, Synopsys, Inc. Soft: A Software Environment Abstraction Mechanism Rmy Evard and Robert Leslie - Northeastern University In a traditional UNIX environment, software is installed in many different locations across a distributed filesystem. In order to effectively use the software, users must correctly configure their PATH, MANPATH and other related shell environment variables. A large and dynamic software environment can cause havoc for users as they try to locate programs not in their PATH, resolve filename collisions, and keep up with changes made by administrators, while attempting to update their startup files. In turn, administrators must notify users of new directories or values to put in their files and must spend time debugging users' environments. A layer of abstraction between the available applications and the way those applications are made available to users through environment variable settings adds a great deal of flexibility for both users and administrators. Administrators can configure and modify software installations without having to notify users of changes. Users may simply indicate which sets of software they desire to use, or they may create arbitrarily complex user-specific modifications. We have implemented this with a mechanism that does not lose speed at login time and which does not use any special shells. ----- Beam: A Tool for Flexible Software Update Thomas Eirich - University of Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany Today's workstations often have a limited local disk space. Besides putting the home of the workstation's owner onto the local disk it is reasonable to place frequently used software packages on the disk, too. This reduces network traffic and makes a workstation more independent from file servers. Of course, the replicated software must be kept consistent with the versions on the file servers. This should be done by an automatic update mechanism. Copying software packages in their entirety would quickly fill up the local disk space. Especially this problem is addressed by Beam. Copying the whole software package is merely the simplest form of Beam's update possibilities. A system administrator can rely on powerful features for writing update scripts: merging of several source trees, enhanced file name generation, embedded Perl code, a rich set of update commands which can be arbitrarily combined to form complicated update rules. Additionally, Beam has a PACK concept which allows easy adaptation of the update process to the usage pattern of a workstation's owner. To save space on the local disk the user can omit those parts of software packages which are not needed at all (e.g., foreign language user interface) or which are of less interest (e.g., manuals for experienced users). These parts are not missing on the workstation because a symbolic link to the server version is inserted. ----- Depot-Lite: A Mechanism for Managing Software John P. Rouillard and Richard B. Martin - University of Massachusetts at Boston Previous versions of depot type schemes for maintaining software, including the NIST depot[5], Xheir[8], CMU depot[2] and its extensions[10], address the needs of a large site with knowledgeable software specialists. At the University of Massachusetts at Boston, software support is provided by a number of student operators, and faculty members. A new lighter weight depot scheme was needed to reduce the amount of knowledge needed by these less experienced software installers. In addition, we needed a depot scheme that would allow the concurrent operation of multiple versions of the same software package on a given host. This paper presents a refinement of the depot scheme that works well for a smaller site, that does not have dedicated software specialists, as well as a larger site that is interested in getting the efficiency and modularity advantages that the depot scheme offers. Although we use the modules package and the amd automounter to ease the administration of depot-lite, neither tool is mandatory for its operation. ---------- INVITED TALK: Network Security Fun Bill Cheswick, AT&T Bell Laboratories ----------------------- WORKS - IN - PROGRESS REPORTS - 2:00pm-3:30pm To reserve your presentation slot, direct your e-mail to Bryan MacDonald at bigmac at usenix.org. ---------- INVITED TALK: Performance Monitoring and Tuning Mark Staveley, Consultant ----------------------- REFEREED TRACK - AUTOMATION, THE SEQUEL - 4:00pm-5:30pm Session Chair: Neil Todd, Swiss Bank Corp. SENDS: a Tool for Managing Domain Naming and Electronic Mail in a Large Organization Jerry Scharf - Sony Electronics Paul Vixie - Vixie Enterprises Managing the Domain Naming Service and electronic mail routing in a large organization has always been a difficult problem. Systems designed to automate these tasks encounter the basic difficulty that the information needed to maintain an accurate picture of the organization is distributed far more widely than the expertise needed to operate such a system. This paper describes a simple set of tools that provides automatic central management of host and electronic mail information. It attempts to find a balance between centralized management and distributed autonomy by centralizing the tools and accumulated data and distributing the source of the data. It also centralizes the mail delivery technology. With this, the users and local groups are provided a higher level of service without the loss of control and local administration. ----- Getting More Work Out Of Work Tracking Systems Elizabeth D. Zwicky - Silicon Graphics This paper discusses work initially done for SRI International's Information, Telecommunication, and Automation Division (ITAD). ITAD's computer facility staff originally implemented a work tracking system to avoid the embarrassment of discovering that some important user problem had been brought to their attention and then entirely forgotten. Over the years, the system also began to address more complex tasks, and is now used to deal with some problems before users report them, to better communicate with the users about the amount of work being done, and to get those minor housekeeping chores that kept accumulating done at last. This paper explains how. ----- Managing the Ever-Growing To Do List Remy Evard - Northeastern University A system administrator's most important task is managing the list of user requests, work assignments, and active problems. If these items aren't prioritized and handled, issues can be forgotten or delayed, and important problems may go unsolved while immediate yet trivial problems get all the attention. In the best case, one will spend too much time working on the list of tasks instead of working on the tasks themselves. This paper is an account of our experiences with tackling the problem of keeping track of tasks. We present a software system that we have developed and a methodology for using it to stay on top of the growing list of things to accomplish. We feel that our experiences may be of use to other system administration groups. ---------- INVITED TALK: A Practical Introduction to SNMPv1 Phil Draughon, Northwestern University ===================== FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 REFEREED TRACK - THE USER ENVIRONMENT - 9:00am-10:30am Session Chair: Trent Hein, XOR Networking Engineering Speeding Up UNIX Login by Caching the Initial Environment Carl Hauser - Xerox Palo Alto Research Center A package scheme helps users manage the environment variables needed by the applications that they use, but imposes a long delay during login while the environment is incrementally constructed. This paper describes an approach to caching the incrementally constructed environment. The mechanism caches different environments for different operating systems and is robust in the face of users' changes to their .login files. For the typical PARC user who enables 11 packages at login, caching reduces the time to login from about 30 seconds to about 5 seconds. ----- The BNR Standard Login (A Login Configuration Manager) Christopher Rath - Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Several years ago, Bell-Northern Research wrote a login configuration system for their UNIX workstation user community. While it performed adequately at its release, it was very quickly overcome by the user community's needs. This configuration system, called the BNR Standard Login, was recently re-written. This paper describes its past and present states; making a case for the continued existence of a login configuration manager in BNR's ever-expanding multi-vendor UNIX workstation network. ----- Exporting Home Directories on Demand to PCs David Clear and Alan Ibbetson - University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Peter Collinson - Hillside Systems Our university has run a UNIX service, both for teaching and research, for over fifteen years. Cost considerations have made us retain timesharing hosts (with X terminals), rather than migrate to desktop workstations. We have come to PCs only in the last five years, and only as poor relations to the main timesharing service, due to a lack of manpower. Our public PCs do not have hard disks, instead they mount system filestore over NFS. Until recently the only per-user filestore was on local 31/2" floppy disks and it was left to the users to back up and manage their own data. As the PC service has gained in importance, the demand for centrally managed filestore has prompted the development of a system to give users access to their own personal secure filestore from any public PC on campus. Moreover, the use of mixed-platform teaching has made it a requirement that a user's PC filestore be visible from their UNIX environment. This paper describes an implementation of a distributed and relatively secure system for providing NFS based personal filestore on a PC. We use an export-on-demand mechanism. A single home directory is exported to just one PC rather than whole partitions being globally exported. The service has been in use since January 1994. ---------- INVITED TALK: Building a Successful World Wide Web Server (With a Little HTML Thrown in for Fun...) Amy Kreiling, University of North Carolina ----------------------- REFEREED TRACK - PEEK A BOO - I CAN SEE YOU - 11:00am-12:30pm Session Chair: William LeFebvre, Argonne National Laboratory Monitoring Usage of Workstations with a Relational Database Jon Finke - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The ability to monitor usage of groups of workstations is quite useful for planning growth, facility hours, staffing and other issues; but in our case, both the format of the data (/var/adm/wtmp) and the fact that the data was spread over hundreds of different workstations made any analysis difficult at best. In this paper, we explore the use of a relational database to collect all the raw data, convert it to a standard form, and then provide selection tools to extract data sets. We also examine some ways to process session data to provide more meaningful reports and charts for administrators. ----- Adventures in the Evolution of a High- Bandwidth Network for Central Servers Karl L. Swartz, Les Cottrell, and Marty Dart - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center In a small network, clients and servers may all be connected to a single Ethernet without significant performance concerns. As the number of clients on a network grows, the necessity of splitting the network into multiple sub-networks, each with a manageable number of clients, becomes clear. Less obvious is what to do with the servers. Group file servers on subnets and multi-homed servers offer only partial solutions - many other types of servers do not lend themselves to a decentralized model, and tend to collect on another, well- connected but overloaded Ethernet. The higher speed of FDDI seems to offer an easy solution, but in practice both expense and interoperability problems render FDDI a poor choice. Ethernet switches appear to permit cheaper and more reliable networking to the servers while providing an aggregate network bandwidth greater than a simple Ethernet. This paper studies the evolution of the server networks at SLAC. Difficulties encountered in the deployment of FDDI are described, as are the tools and techniques used to characterize the traffic patterns on the server network. Performance of Ethernet, FDDI, and switched Ethernet networks is analyzed, as are reliability and maintainability issues for these alternatives. The motivations for re-designing the SLAC general server network to use a switched Ethernet instead of FDDI are described, as are the reasons for choosing FDDI for the farm and firewall networks at SLAC. Guidelines are developed which may help in making this choice for other networks. [[FOOTNOTE: This work supported by the United States Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC03-76SF00515, and simultaneously published as SLAC-PUB-6567. ]] ----- Pong: A Flexible Network Services Monitoring System Helen E. Harrison, Mike C. Mitchell, and Michael E. Shaddock - SAS Institute, Inc. In distributed computing environments it is important to determine not only whether individual critical machines are up or down, but also whether the individual services they offer are available. Our site was using a network monitoring package which used ICMP ECHO packets to determine when individual network components were unavailable. We found that there were many occasions where a server would reply to the ICMP ECHO, but would still not be providing the services it should be providing. We needed a tool which would let us monitor high level services such as AFS or NFS file service. This paper will describe a tool called pong which was developed to meet these needs. Pong is a highly configurable monitoring tool which ``pings'' individual services at predefined intervals and executes appropriate actions when the state of that service changes. We use pong to monitor three or more services on each of 110 servers. ---------- INVITED TALK: A Sysadmin's Guide to SCSI: A Non-Engineering Perspective, or, What the Heck is a Terminator? Michael Pearlman, Rice University ----------------------- REFEREED TRACK - THE AUTOMATION REVOLUTION - 2:00pm-3:30pm Session Chair: Tom Christiansen, Consultant Automating Printing Configuration Jon Finke - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Maintaining the printing configuration files for a large site (400 machines, 60 public printers, 40 private printers, 30 print spoolers) can be a major job. At RPI, we developed a system that will automatically generate the printer configuration file for any machine, depending on what printers are driven by that machine. It also allows us to only have a printer appear only on a subset of machines, rather than on all machines. This paper describes the design and deployment of the system. We use a relational database to manage the printer information, printer type attributes, host grouping and to track hosts using the system. All sources and related information are available for anonymous FTP. ----- Highly Automated Low Personnel System Administration in a Wall Street Environment Harry Kaplan - Sanwa Financial Products Co., L.P. Administering a small system running intensive financial applications with the demand for twenty four hour coverage is nearly impossible for a single person. Moreover, most solutions to automated system administration are not clever enough to pinpoint the problem and deliver the required action to the responsible person in a timely manner. Our system evolved by integrating small utilities which function as information gathering tools, notifying tools and action tools. Vital information to us means: the users on each system, load on each server, temperature in the computer room, remaining swap and UNIX file system space on each machine in the company, health of our market data ticker plant, and state of backup tapes. Notifying tools include electronic mail, electronic postit notes, a digitized dial-up voice messaging system, and alphanumeric tools include electronic mail, electronic postit notes, a digitized dial-up voice messaging system, and alphanumeric pagers. Action tools include fairly standard UNIX utilities such as killing runaway application processes, removing core dumps, and, as such, require little further description. ----- The Group Administration Shell and the GASH Network Computing Environment Jonathan Abbey - The University of Texas at Austin Managing large scale UNIX networks so that users can use resources on multiple systems is traditionally performed using NIS, NFS, and DNS. Proper use of these tools requires exacting maintenance of multiple databases under a single point of control. This is acceptable for a few dozen machines, but with hundreds of machines spread across several administrative groups, some mechanism is needed to share administrative control over the master administrative files. The Computer Science Division of the Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin (ARL:UT) has developed the Group Administration Shell (GASH) system, which gives different administrators permission to administer subsets of the laboratory NIS and DNS files. In addition to distributing administrative control in a secure fashion, GASH makes a large number of system administration tasks very simple, permitting technically untrained personnel to safely perform complex system administration tasks. The Network Computing Environment (NCE) built around GASH and standard UNIX tools such as NIS, DNS, and automounter provides a flexible and reliable way of completely abstracting the user's environment from the physical configuration of the network. ---------- INVITED TALK: Getting on the MBone Steve Casner, Information Sciences Inst., University of Southern California ========================================================== From ple at Synopsys.COM Tue Sep 13 14:08:05 1994 From: ple at Synopsys.COM (Paul Evans) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 14:08:05 -0700 Subject: LISA 9 Call for Participation Message-ID: <199409132108.OAA01518@clotho.synopsys.com> ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA IX) September 18-22, 1995 Marriott Hotel Monterey, California Co-sponsored by USENIX, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association, and SAGE, the System Administrators Guild IMPORTANT DATES Refereed paper submissions: Extended abstracts due: May 1, 1995 Notification to authors: June 5, 1995 Final papers due: August 1, 1995 Registration materials available: July, 1995 The USENIX Systems Administration (LISA) Conference is widely recognized as the leading technical conference for system administrators. Historically, LISA stood for "Large Installation Systems Administration," back in the days when having a large installation meant having over 100 users, over 100 systems, or over one gigabyte of disk storage. Today, the scope of the LISA conference includes topics of interest to system administrators from sites of all sizes and kinds. What the conference attendees have in common is an interest in solving problems that cannot be dealt with simply by scaling up well-understood solutions appropriate to a single machine or a small number of workstations on a LAN. The theme for this year's conference is "New Challenges," which includes such emerging issues as integration of non-UNIX and proprietary systems and networking technologies, distributed information services, network voice and video teleconferencing, and managing very complex networks. We are particularly interested in technical papers that reflect hands-on experience, describe fully implemented and freely distributable solutions, and advance the state of the art of system administration as an engineering discipline. TUTORIAL PROGRAM Monday and Tuesday, September 18-19, 1995 The two-day tutorial program at the conference offers up to five tracks of full- and half-day tutorials. Tutorials offer expert instruction in areas of interest to system administrators of all levels, from novice through senior. Topics are expected to include networking, advanced system administration tools, Solaris and BSD administration, Perl programming, firewalls, NIS, DNS, Sendmail, and more. To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, USENIX continually solicits proposals for new tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial at this or other USENIX conferences, please contact the tutorial coordinator: Daniel V. Klein +1 412 421 0285 FAX: +1 412 421 2332 E-mail: dvk at usenix.org TECHNICAL SESSIONS Wednesday through Friday, September 20-22, 1995 The three days of technical sessions consist of two parallel tracks. The first track is dedicated to presentations of refereed technical papers. The second track is intended to accommodate invited talks, panels and Works-in-Progress (WIP) sessions. CONFERENCE TOPICS Papers addressing the following topics are particularly timely; papers addressing other technical areas of general interest are equally welcome. % Dealing with differences in UNIX implementations -- migration and interoperability among BSD, SVR4, OSF and others % Integration of UNIX-based with non-UNIX-based and proprietary systems and networking technologies (Mac, NT and DOS PCs) % Application of emerging technologies (Mbone, Mosaic) to system administration % Administration and security of distributed information services (WAIS, gopher, WWW) and network voice and video teleconferencing (Mbone) % Experience supporting mobile and location-independent computing % Experience with large (1000+ machine) networks, especially networks of SVR4-based systems % Real-world experience with implementations of proposed system administration standards % Unusual applications of commercial system administration software packages % Application of operational planning techniques to system administration including measurements and metrics, continuous process improvement, automation, and increasing productivity % File migration, archival storage and backup systems in extremely large environments % Innovative tools and techniques that have worked for you % Managing high-demand and high-availability environments % Migrating to new hardware and software technologies % Administration of remote sites that have no technical experts % Supporting MIS organizations on UNIX % Real-world experiences with emerging procedural/ethical issues -- e.g., developing site policies, tracking abusers, and implementing solutions to security problems % Networking non-traditional sites (libraries, museums, K-12) REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS An extended abstract is required for the paper selection process. Full papers are not acceptable at this stage; if you send a full paper, you must also include an extended abstract. "Extended" means 2-5 pages. Include references to establish that you are familiar with related work, and, where possible, provide detailed performance data to establish that you have a working implementation or measurement tool. Submissions will be judged on the quality of the written submission, and whether or not the work advances the state of the art of system administration. For more detailed author instructions and a sample extended abstract, send email to lisa9authors at usenix.org. or call USENIX at +1 510 528 8649. Note that the USENIX organization, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to more than one conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by "non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be returned unread. All submissions are held in the highest confidence prior to publication in the conference proceedings, both as a matter of policy and as protected by the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. Authors of an accepted paper must provide a final paper for publication in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper presents the paper at the conference. Final papers are limited to 20 pages, including diagrams, figures and appendixes, and must be in troff, ASCII, or LaTeX format. We will supply you with instructions. Papers should include a brief description of the site, where appropriate. Conference proceedings, containing all refereed papers and materials from the invited talks, will be distributed to attendees and will also be available from the USENIX following the conference. WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS Please submit extended abstracts for the refereed paper track by two of the following methods: % E-mail to: lisa9papers at usenix.org % FAX to: +1 510 548 5738 % Mail to: LISA 9 Conference USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA USA 94710 To discuss potential submissions, and for inquiries regarding the content of the conference program, contact the program co-chairs at lisa9chair at usenix.org or at: Tina M. Darmohray Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory PO Box 808 L-510 Livermore, CA USA 94550 +1 510 423 5999 FAX: +1 510 422 7869 E-mail: tmd at usenix.org Paul Evans Synopsys, Inc. 700 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA USA 94043 +1 415 694 1855 FAX: +1 415 965 8637 E-mail: ple at usenix.org INVITED TALK TRACK If you have a topic of general interest to system administrators, but that is not suited for a traditional technical paper submission, please submit a proposal for a second track presentation to the invited talk (IT) coordinators: Laura de Leon, Hewlett-Packard +1 415 857 5605 FAX: +1 415 857 5686 E-mail: deleon at hpl.hp.com Peg Schafer, BBN +1 617 873-2626 FAX: +1 617 873 4265 E-mail: peg at bbn.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Co-chair: Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Program Co-chair: Paul Evans, Synopsys, Inc. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh Kim Carney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Bryan McDonald, SRI International Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems, Inc. John Schimmel, Silicon Graphics, Inc. VENDOR DISPLAY Wednesday, September 20, 1995 Well-informed vendor representatives will demonstrate products and services at the informal table-top display. If your company would like to participate, please contact: Zanna Knight +1 510 528 8649 FAX: +1 510 548 5738 E-mail: display at usenix.org BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are very informal gatherings of attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs are held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings of the conference. BoFs may be scheduled in advance by telephoning the USENIX Conference Office at +1 714 588 8649 or via e-mail to conference at usenix.org. They may also be scheduled at the conference. FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION All details of the conference program, conference registration fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation information will be available in July, 1995. If you wish to receive registration materials, please contact: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 +1 714 588 8649 FAX: +1 714 588 9706 E-mail: conference at usenix.org For more information about USENIX and its events, access the USENIX Resource Center on the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.usenix.org. OR send email to our mailserver at info at usenix.org. Your message should contain the line: send catalog. A catalog will be returned to you. From mcrae at cs.unc.edu Mon Sep 19 05:54:33 1994 From: mcrae at cs.unc.edu (Lori McRae) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 08:54:33 -0400 Subject: NC system Administrators Lecture, Friday September 23, 1994 Message-ID: <199409191254.IAA02609@capehenry.cs.unc.edu> North Carolina System Administor Lecture Series Title: Modules: Managing Software and User Environments Speaker: John L. Furlani Date: September 23, 1994 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Live at UNC-CH, Sitterson Hall 011 Available over CoNCert at most cites. Contact the site nearest you (full list with phone numbers appears in the text of this message.) The Department of Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the next presentation in its North Carolina System Administrators Lecture Series. This presentation, entitled " Modules: Managing Software and User Environments" will be given by John L. Furlani at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on Friday,September 23,1994 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. The System Administrators Lecture series originates from room SN011 of Sitterson Hall at UNC-CH and is broadcast over the CoNCert video network to most sites. Please check with your site coordinator for information on receiving this program at your location. About the Modules Package.... Typically users initialize their environment when they log in to the system by setting the environment information for every application they might utilize during the session. The Modules package is conceptually a database and interface that both simplifies shell initialization and allows users to easily modify their environment during the session. The Modules package lessens the burden of UNIX environment maintenance on the user while providing a mechanism for the dynamic manipulation of application environment changes as single entities. Users least familiar with the UNIX environment benefit most from the single command interface. The Modules package assists system administrators which are responsible for a wide array of software packages with the maintenence, documentation and dissemination of information of these software packages. This talk describes the design motivations and concepts behind the Modules package design and implementation. It discusses the problems with the traditional user environment model and how the Modules package provides a solution to these problems. Both the user's and the system administrator's viewpoint are discussed. The talk covers how the Modules package is a tool which is utilized not only by novice UNIX users and system administrators, but also by advanced UNIX users. The current Modules package uses Tcl (Tool Command Language). Examples of how to install and use the Modules package are presented. About John L. Furlani... John Furlani currently works for SunSoft, Inc. at their research and development center in Morrisville, NC. He is currently the lead senior software engineer of the Solaris XIL Imaging and Video Library and has been working on the library since its early development over two and a half years ago. During this time, he was responsible for incorporating Sun's Cell compression/decompression technology into the library and developing other major portions of the library. During this period, he has published two papers, "B3-Tree: The CD-ROM Fosters a New Data Structure" and "Adaptive Colormap Selection Algorithm for Motion Sequences." Prior to his work on XIL, John was the system administrator for the Sun Microsystems research and development facility. Among other things, John was responsible for maintaining a network of over 100 machines for 75 users. The Modules package was originally developed to simplify the maintenence and the distribution of the wide variety of software packages used at the research and development center. John is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Duke University. In 1990, he received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of South Carolina at Columbia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONCERT SITES (Communications for North Carolina Education, Research, and Technology) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BGSM MRI Building 919-748-4260 Duke 130 A North Building 919-660-6585 Duke/Med 503 Davison Building 919-681-4566 ECU Brody Building 919-551-2979 NC A&T 206 McNair Building 919-334-7867 NCSU 107H Park Shops 919-515-2601 NCSU-W Withers Building 919-515-2858 RTI Herbert Building 919-541-6920 UNC-A 129 Robinson Hall 704-251-6333 UNC-CH 08 Peabody Hall 919-966-5078 UNC-CH/Med 304 Berryhill Hall 919-966-1134 UNC-C Atkins Building 704-547-2435 WSSU G-22 Anderson Center 919-750-2680 MCNC 3021 Cornwallis Road 919-248-1400 NCSC 3021 Cornwallis Road 919-248-1100 WILM (call for locations) 919-395-3138 From zwicky at pterodactyl.corp.sgi.com Tue Sep 27 10:06:04 1994 From: zwicky at pterodactyl.corp.sgi.com (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 10:06:04 -0700 Subject: Local groups document Message-ID: <9409271706.AA02516@pterodactyl.corp.sgi.com> The following document on SAGE services for local groups was approved by the board at the most recent SAGE board meeting. This is the current list of services we offer; we expect to add new services to the list as time goes by (for instance, we are currently working to define a speaker registry service). Please send your comments and requests to "sage-board at usenix.org". Elizabeth D. Zwicky zwicky at usenix.org SAGE Local Group Support ------------------------ SAGE believes that local groups provide important services to the system administration community, and therefore wishes to support them as much as possible. Because we also believe that different formats and organizational structures are appropriate for different local groups, we do not want to specify one particular relationship that makes something a "SAGE local group"; instead, we provide a list of services that local groups can take advantage of or not as appropriate for their situation. These services are available to any not-for-profit group that serves system administrators. Except as stated in the requirements for particular services, SAGE makes no restrictions on the nature or name of the group. Please remember that most of the people providing these services are also volunteers with full-time jobs outside of SAGE. Requests for project funding: SAGE will entertain requests for funding of limited-term projects (booklet publishing, establishment of speaker series, etc). Calls for such proposals will be periodically announced, though the proposals themselves will be entertained at any time. Requesting groups should identify a SAGE Board member who will be willing to serve as "champion" for the proposal to the Board. SAGE will consider all proposals that benefit system administrators, but may give precedence to proposals that benefit the system administration community as a whole, as opposed to being limited to the local group. Proposals that benefit the local group only will not be considered unless the group contains at least one SAGE member. Initial formation: Advice, commiseration, and experience are available from the sage-locals working group and its associated mailing list, which is also a good place to find other people interested in forming a group in your area. SAGE will provide you with the mailing list information for those USENIX/SAGE members in your area who have authorized the release of their information, as long as you agree to use the information only once, and only for the purpose of creating a non-profit group for system administrators. Publicity: Any local group for system administrators that provides contact information will be listed in ;login:, in SAGE's WWW server, and any place else that SAGE provides local group information. The WWW server by default has an extremely basic page listing geographic coverage and contact information; local groups can provide their own page instead, or the URL for their own server. Local groups may also use the sage-announce mailing list to announce their meetings. Insurance: Many public meeting places require liability insurance for groups that wish to use them. SAGE can make arrangements to extend its liability insurance to local groups which meet the requirements of the insurance company; this will always require that a current SAGE member is a contact for the group and attends the meetings. Other requirements will vary depending on the organization of the local group and the locations it meets in. From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Tue Oct 4 15:00:12 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:00:12 -0400 Subject: North Carolina System Administrators Group - 10/10/94, 6:00pm Message-ID: <199410042200.SAA02162@widor.cs.unc.edu> The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators & Managers organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, October 10, 1994, at 6pm. Details about the meeting, our technical program and directions to our meeting location are provided in this note. We hope to see you there!! North Carolina System Administration Interest Group ADVANCED INTERNET Monday, October 10, 1994 Research Triangle Institute Dreyfus Auditorium Research Triangle Park, NC 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session The technical program will include a discussions of what can be done with Internet connectivity. Paul Jones, maintainer of the WWW server SunSITE will be speaking about the various services that can be made available on an Internet node. He will be using SunSITE as an example. After Paul's overview, a panel of experts will be available for a question & answer session. Panelists will include Paul Jones from UNC, local area internet providers (Cybernetics and Interpath), and a Web consultant. This should be a dynmaic meeting and provide the opportunity many of you have been waiting for to ask questions regarding web servers, who pays for the Internet, and so forth. Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of the evening. We have once again found a corporate sponsor willing to donate food and drink for the evening. RSVPs are not necessary, but we do encourage them to ensure enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Technology Support & Comm Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing Glaxo Inc. UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. Five Moore Drive 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road RTP, NC 27709 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 941-4868 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 wh16923 at usav01.glaxo.com kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, contact our Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================== Upcoming events of interest to North Carolina System Administrators: Oct 28, 1:30 NC System Administrators Lecture Series The Perl Programming Language: An Overview Jim Murrell, UNC The NC Lecture Series is broadcast over the NC-REN video teleconferencing network. The lectures are broadcast on the 4th Friday of every month. For information about receiving this broadcast at your NC-REN site, please contact your NC-REN representative. For information about the lecture series, please contact Amy Kreiling. ============================== Directions to Research Triangle Institute From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill): Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway - North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound. Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh): Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway - North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From north of RTP (e.g. Durham): Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance. From xev at morgan.com Tue Oct 11 08:54:35 1994 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 11:54:35 -0400 Subject: October 17 NYSA Meeting (Location Change) Message-ID: <9410111154.ZM147@rs1.morgan.com> The next NYSA (New York System Adminstrators group) meeting will take place on Monday October 17th @ 6:15pm. It will be held at Morgan Stanley, 1251 6th Avenue (between 49 & 50), 19th Floor, NY NY. ** NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGE ** [This is the same place that we normally have the meetings, however it is a change from a previous announcement] The speaker at this meeting will be Kevin Underriner of TriTeal. He will be discussing the VUE Window Manager and CDE. Bring your questions. As usual, there will be refreshments and lively discussions. Afterwards, we'll adjourn as usual to a local tavern for the libations of our choice. Hope to see you! Directions by subway: The 1, 9 stop at 7th Avenue and 50 and the C, E stop at 50 and 8th avenue but if you walk through the tunnel it brings you out at the same location as the 1, 9. The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. For more info on NYSA: http://broad.way.com/NYSA/homepage.html Xev Gittler xev at morgan.com From mcrae at cs.unc.edu Wed Oct 26 13:18:18 1994 From: mcrae at cs.unc.edu (Lori McRae) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 16:18:18 -0400 Subject: NC System Administrators Lecture Series -- 10/28/94 Message-ID: <199410262018.QAA15556@capehenry.cs.unc.edu> North Carolina System Administrators Lecture Series Perl Programming Language Speaker: Jim Murrell Date: Friday, October 28, 1994 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Live at UNC-CH, Sitterson Hall 011 Available over NC-REN at most sites. Contact the site nearest you (full list with phone numbers appears in the text of this message.) The Department of Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the next presentation in its North Carolina System Administrators Lecture Series. This presentation, entitled " Perl Programming Language" will be given by Jim Murrell at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on Friday, October 28, 1994 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. The System Administrators Lecture series originates from room SN011 of Sitterson Hall at UNC-CH and is broadcast over the NC-REN video network to most sites. Please check with your site coordinator for information on receiving this program at your location. About the program... Perl is an interpreted language that was originally designed for the manipulation of files and processes. It was written by Larry Wall as an alternative to the C language and the UNIX shell for high-level systems programming. Perl now runs on every major operating system and is employed in countless applications. This presentation highlights many of the salient features of this rapidly growing language. The program is expected to cover: What is Perl? What about Documentation? How can you get Perl? What are some of the features of Perl? Variable types Operators Regular Expressions I/O functionality Examples of Perl programs Questions and answers About Jim Murrell... Jim has been in the computer field for more than twenty-five years. He currently is employed with UNC at the Office for Information and Technology where he provides programming and administrative support in the areas of VMS and UNIX. One of his most recent accomplishments has been porting the PERL programming language to a 64 bit ALPHA AXP running OpenVMS. NC-REN SITES BGSM MRI Building 919-748-4260 Duke 130 A North Building 919-660-6585 Duke/Med 503 Davison Building 919-681-4566 ECU Brody Building 919-551-2979 NC A&T 206 McNair Building 919-334-7867 NCSU 107H Park Shops 919-515-2601 NCSU-W Withers Building 919-515-2858 RTI Herbert Building 919-541-6920 UNC-A 129 Robinson Hall 704-251-6333 UNC-CH 08 Peabody Hall 919-966-5078 UNC-CH/Med 304 Berryhill Hall 919-966-1134 UNC-C Atkins Building 704-547-2435 WSSU G-22 Anderson Center 919-750-2680 MCNC 3021 Cornwallis Road 919-248-1400 NCSC 3021 Cornwallis Road 919-248-1100 WILM (call for locations) 919-395-3138 From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Thu Nov 10 14:53:25 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 17:53:25 -0500 Subject: NC System Administrators meeting, 11/14/94 Message-ID: <199411102253.RAA27481@alpha.cs.unc.edu> The next meeting of the NC System Administration & Managers organization will be this Monday, November 14, at 6pm. Details about the meeting, our technical program and directions to Strategic Technologies in Cary, NC, are provided below. We hope to see you there!! North Carolina System Administration Interest Group Security Firewalls Monday, November 14 Strategic Technologies 301 Gregson Drive Cary, NC 5 PM - Steering Committee 6 PM - General Session Our speaker will be Chris Swanson from SSDS. Chris will be presenting a technical perspective on firewall implementations. He will cover the two philosophies of firewalls, the different toolsets used to implement these philosophies, and potential dangers when implementing a firewall. Our November meeting is also our annual membership meeting. The NC*SA is almost 1 year old, and for this month's meeting, we'll be holding our very first election. We will be nominating and voting for 7 people who will make up the NC*SA steering committee. If you are interested in becoming a member of the NC*SA steering committee, please plan to attend Monday's meeting. Even if you aren't interested in being a member of the steering committee, please attend. The NC*SA needs your support. Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of the evening. We have once again found a corporate sponsor willing to donate food and drink for the evening. RSVPs are not necessary, but we do encourage them to ensure enough food for everyone. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please contact one of the people listed below: William E. Howell Amy K. Kreiling James A. Finegan Technology Support & Comm Dept. of Comp. Science RDM Computing Glaxo Inc. UNC - Chapel Hill Burroughs Wellcome Co. Five Moore Drive 127 Sitterson Hall 3030 Cornwallis Road RTP, NC 27709 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 RTP, NC 27709 (919) 941-4868 (919) 962-1843 (919) 315-4185 wh16923 at usav01.glaxo.com kreiling at cs.unc.edu finej01 at bwco.com ============================== For information about the NC System Administrators group, check out our new Majordomo mailing list server. The "ncsa-discussion" mailing list has been created to facilitate discussions of interest to system administrators from the state of North Carolina. Simply send email to "majordomo at cs.unc.edu": mail majordomo at cs.unc.edu Subject: subscribe ncsa-discussion After subscribing, Majordomo will send you the help file and info file for our mailing list. These files contain instructions for retrieving other files available to the NCSA organization (e.g. the presentation material from past technical programs are available for retrieval via Majordomo!!) ============================== Directions to Strategic Technologies in MacGregor Corporate Park: Strategic Technologies 301 Gregson Drive Cary, NC 27511 Tel: (919) 481-9797 >From points north of Raleigh: - Take US 1/I-440 South - Exit at 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive >From Durham, RTP, Raleigh Airport, and points West: - Take US 40 East - Exit onto Exit 293 (US 1 South & Highway 64 West) - Exit at 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive >From Points South of Raleigh: - Take Hwy 401 North or Hwy 70 West - Exit onto I-40 West - Exit onto Exit 293 (US 1 South & Highway 64 West) - Exit 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive >From points East of Raleigh: - Take I-40 West - Exit onto Exit 293 (US 1 South & Highway 64 West) - Exit at 128 B, onto Route 64 West - Take left at light after MacGregor Village, onto Gregson Drive (MacGregor Corporate Park) - Strategic Technologies is on the left after TC Squared building and after MacAllyson Drive From xev at morgan.com Fri Nov 11 13:33:05 1994 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 16:33:05 -0500 Subject: Monday's NYSA Meeting Message-ID: <9411111633.ZM16865@rr5.morgan.com> The next meeting will be on Monday, November 14 at 6:15pm. The host of this meeting is Morgan Stanley @ 1251 6th Avenue between 49 & 50), 19th Floor, NY NY. [We are still looking for someone else to host the meetings. Surely there is SOMEONE out there who is willing to do this?] The topic will be Tivoli's new TME 2.0 systems management environment. The speaker will be Rick Wright from Tivoli. As usual, there will be refreshments and lively discussions. Afterwards, we may adjourn as usual to a local tavern for the libations of your choice. Hope to see you! At the last meeting, I asked people who they wanted to hear from. The responses were: Tivoli, Transarc (AFS), and Sun. Well, you ask and we deliver! This month is Tivoli, and below are a list of meetings for the next three months! Cool, huh? December 12, 1994 Hal Stern of Sun Microsystem will talk about "Real Performance Metrics" which looks at measurement values, intervals and ratios, relating them to operating system and network design features. He'll focus on real-world problems and configurations, and appropriate metrics and mechanisms for tuning your way through problems. NFS, NIS, NIS+, ftp/http, database and compute job performance will be the primary topics for examples, but bring your own case studies. January 9, 1995 John Stumpf of Transarc will talk about AFS, DFS and where they are going. The details of this will be fleshed out before the meeting. (Any suggestions you have would be appreciated). February 13, 1995 Scott Simpson, lead developer at Enterprise Systems Management Corporation, will discuss "Managing Names in Really Really Big Enterprises." Scott is leading the programming effort for ESMC's UName*It (R) product, which enables groups of systems administrators to collectively administer a large name space in a commercial environment. Scott will review issues in name space management and present his views on how those issues are best addressed by systems administrators. Directions by subway: The 1, 9 stop at 7th Avenue and 50 and the C, E stop at 50 and 8th avenue but if you walk through the tunnel it brings you out at the same location as the 1, 9. The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. From xev at morgan.com Tue Dec 6 07:52:29 1994 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 10:52:29 -0500 Subject: December 12 NYSA Meeting Message-ID: <9412061052.ZM1787@odudua.morgan.com> The next meeting will be on Monday, December 12 at 6:15pm. The host of this meeting is Morgan Stanley @ 1251 6th Avenue between 49 & 50), 19th Floor, NY NY. Hal Stern of Sun Microsystem will talk about "Real Performance Metrics" which looks at measurement values, intervals and ratios, relating them to operating system and network design features. He'll focus on real-world problems and configurations, and appropriate metrics and mechanisms for tuning your way through problems. NFS, NIS, NIS+, ftp/http, database and compute job performance will be the primary topics for examples, but bring your own case studies. As usual, there will be refreshments and lively discussions. Afterwards, we'll adjourn as usual to a local tavern for the libations of our choice. Hope to see you! Directions by subway: The 1, 9 stop at 7th Avenue and 50 and the C, E stop at 50 and 8th avenue but if you walk through the tunnel it brings you out at the same location as the 1, 9. The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. Future Meetings: January 9, 1995 John Stumpf of Transarc will talk about AFS, DFS and where they are going. February 13, 1995 Scott Simpson, lead developer at Enterprise Systems Management Corporation, will discuss "Managing Names in Really Really Big Enterprises." Scott is leading the programming effort for ESMC's UName*It (R) product, which enables groups of systems administrators to collectively administer a large name space in a commercial environment. Scott will review issues in name space management and present his views on how those issues are best addressed by systems administrators. From kreiling at cs.unc.edu Wed Dec 7 14:11:14 1994 From: kreiling at cs.unc.edu (Amy K. Kreiling) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 17:11:14 -0500 Subject: NC*SA Holiday Party -- Monday, 12/12, Ginger Inn Message-ID: <9412072211.AA20118@> Our first annual NC*SA Holiday Party!!! When: Monday, December 12 Anytime from 5:15pm until ??? Where: The Ginger Inn Heritage Square Shopping Center (where the Winn Dixie is located) intersection of 55 & 54 Durham, NC What: Buffet-style Chinese Everyone pays for themselves ABC license Who: Anyone & everyone!! Spouses, families, friends & co-workers Why: DOOR PRIZES!!! How about 2 tickets to a Raleigh IceCaps game?? Many other prizes, as well! Please plan on attending & remember to bring a friend! No RSVP is required. If you have any questions, please contact: Amy K. Kreiling Dept. of Comp. Science UNC - Chapel Hill 127 Sitterson Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 962-1843 kreiling at cs.unc.edu From ple at Synopsys.COM Thu Dec 8 14:10:40 1994 From: ple at Synopsys.COM (ple at Synopsys.COM) Date: Thu, 08 Dec 94 14:10:40 -0800 Subject: LISA 9 Call for Participation Message-ID: <199412082210.AA01123@gaea.synopsys.com> Enclosed is the LISA 9 Call For Participation. As you can see, abstracts are not due for many months but, in order to insure the highest quality LISA conference possible, we're out encouraging folks now to consider writing papers. There is a list of potential topics to write about included in the CFP, but papers are not limited to those topics. What we *really* want is to hear from the system administration community about what system administrators are doing and how they are doing it. If you haven't submitted a paper before, please don't let that deter you. We are able to help you get your paper written (but it is likely that what you really need is a post-English teacher to tell you that your writing is really OK after all! ;-). Additionally, if your management cringes at the thought of paying to send you to conferences, one author of each accepted paper in the refereed paper track (and all invited talk speakers) will receive complimentary registration to the conference sessions. Lastly, we'd like to get an idea of how we're doing in our efforts to recruit papers like yours. If you are considering submitting a paper, would you take the time now to send us some email and tell us that, along with the topic you're considering? Nothing formal, just a one-liner will do. It would really help us in trying to put on a good LISA for all of us to learn from and enjoy. Tina M. Darmohray and Paul Evans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA IX) September 18-22, 1995 Marriott Hotel Monterey, California Co-sponsored by USENIX, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association, and SAGE, the System Administrators Guild IMPORTANT DATES Refereed paper submissions: Extended abstracts due: May 1, 1995 Notification to authors: June 5, 1995 Final papers due: August 1, 1995 Registration materials available: July, 1995 The USENIX Systems Administration (LISA) Conference is widely recognized as the leading technical conference for system administrators. Historically, LISA stood for "Large Installation Systems Administration," back in the days when having a large installation meant having over 100 users, over 100 systems, or over one gigabyte of disk storage. Today, the scope of the LISA conference includes topics of interest to system administrators from sites of all sizes and kinds. What the conference attendees have in common is an interest in solving problems that cannot be dealt with simply by scaling up well-understood solutions appropriate to a single machine or a small number of workstations on a LAN. The theme for this year's conference is "New Challenges," which includes such emerging issues as integration of non-UNIX and proprietary systems and networking technologies, distributed information services, network voice and video teleconferencing, and managing very complex networks. We are particularly interested in technical papers that reflect hands-on experience, describe fully implemented and freely distributable solutions, and advance the state of the art of system administration as an engineering discipline. TUTORIAL PROGRAM Monday and Tuesday, September 18-19, 1995 The two-day tutorial program at the conference offers up to five tracks of full- and half-day tutorials. Tutorials offer expert instruction in areas of interest to system administrators of all levels, from novice through senior. Topics are expected to include networking, advanced system administration tools, Solaris and BSD administration, Perl programming, firewalls, NIS, DNS, Sendmail, and more. To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, USENIX continually solicits proposals for new tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial at this or other USENIX conferences, please contact the tutorial coordinator: Daniel V. Klein +1 412 421 0285 FAX: +1 412 421 2332 E-mail: dvk at usenix.org TECHNICAL SESSIONS Wednesday through Friday, September 20-22, 1995 The three days of technical sessions consist of two parallel tracks. The first track is dedicated to presentations of refereed technical papers. The second track is intended to accommodate invited talks, panels and Works-in-Progress (WIP) sessions. CONFERENCE TOPICS Papers addressing the following topics are particularly timely; papers addressing other technical areas of general interest are equally welcome. % Your plans for the year 2000 % Deployment of new networking technologies (ATM) % Dealing with differences in UNIX implementations -- migration and interoperability among BSD, SVR4, OSF and others % Integration of UNIX-based with non-UNIX-based and proprietary systems and networking technologies (Mac, NT and DOS PCs) % Application of emerging technologies (Mbone, Mosaic) to system administration % Administration and security of distributed information services (WAIS, gopher, WWW) and network voice and video teleconferencing (Mbone) % Experience supporting mobile and location-independent computing % Experience with large (1000+ machine) networks, especially networks of SVR4-based systems % Real-world experience with implementations of proposed system administration standards % Unusual applications of commercial system administration software packages % Application of operational planning techniques to system administration including measurements and metrics, continuous process improvement, automation, and increasing productivity % File migration, archival storage and backup systems in extremely large environments % Innovative tools and techniques that have worked for you % Managing high-demand and high-availability environments % Migrating to new hardware and software technologies % Administration of remote sites that have no technical experts % Supporting MIS organizations on UNIX % Real-world experiences with emerging procedural/ethical issues -- e.g., developing site policies, tracking abusers, and implementing solutions to security problems % Coping with the commercialization of the Internet % Support models in use at your site % Networking non-traditional sites (libraries, museums, K-12) REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS An extended abstract is required for the paper selection process. Full papers are not acceptable at this stage; if you send a full paper, you must also include an extended abstract. "Extended" means 2-5 pages. Include references to establish that you are familiar with related work, and, where possible, provide detailed performance data to establish that you have a working implementation or measurement tool. Submissions will be judged on the quality of the written submission, and whether or not the work advances the state of the art of system administration. For more detailed author instructions and a sample extended abstract, send email to lisa9authors at usenix.org. or call USENIX at +1 510 528 8649. Note that the USENIX organization, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to more than one conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by "non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be returned unread. All submissions are held in the highest confidence prior to publication in the conference proceedings, both as a matter of policy and as protected by the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. Authors of an accepted paper must provide a final paper for publication in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper presents the paper at the conference. Final papers are limited to 20 pages, including diagrams, figures and appendixes, and must be in troff, ASCII, or LaTeX format. We will supply you with instructions. Papers should include a brief description of the site, where appropriate. Conference proceedings, containing all refereed papers and materials from the invited talks, will be distributed to attendees and will also be available from the USENIX following the conference. WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS Please submit extended abstracts for the refereed paper track by two of the following methods: % E-mail to: lisa9papers at usenix.org % FAX to: +1 510 548 5738 % Mail to: LISA 9 Conference USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA USA 94710 To discuss potential submissions, and for inquiries regarding the content of the conference program, contact the program co-chairs at lisa9chair at usenix.org or at: Tina M. Darmohray Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory PO Box 808 L-510 Livermore, CA USA 94550 +1 510 423 5999 FAX: +1 510 422 7869 E-mail: tmd at usenix.org Paul Evans Synopsys, Inc. 700 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA USA 94043 +1 415 694 1855 FAX: +1 415 965 8637 E-mail: ple at usenix.org INVITED TALK TRACK If you have a topic of general interest to system administrators, but that is not suited for a traditional technical paper submission, please submit a proposal for a second track presentation to the invited talk (IT) coordinators at itlisa at usenix.org or at: Laura de Leon, Hewlett-Packard +1 415 857 5605 FAX: +1 415 857 5686 E-mail: deleon at hpl.hp.com Peg Schafer, BBN +1 617 873-2626 FAX: +1 617 873 4265 E-mail: peg at bbn.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Co-chair: Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Program Co-chair: Paul Evans, Synopsys, Inc. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh Kim Carney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Bryan McDonald, SRI International Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems, Inc. John Schimmel, Silicon Graphics, Inc. VENDOR DISPLAY Wednesday, September 20, 1995 Well-informed vendor representatives will demonstrate products and services at the informal table-top display. If your company would like to participate, please contact: Zanna Knight +1 510 528 8649 FAX: +1 510 548 5738 E-mail: display at usenix.org BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are very informal gatherings of attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs are held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings of the conference. BoFs may be scheduled in advance by telephoning the USENIX Conference Office at +1 714 588 8649 or via e-mail to conference at usenix.org. They may also be scheduled at the conference. FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION All details of the conference program, conference registration fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation information will be available in July, 1995. If you wish to receive registration materials, please contact: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 +1 714 588 8649 FAX: +1 714 588 9706 E-mail: conference at usenix.org For more information about USENIX and its events, access the USENIX Resource Center on the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.usenix.org. OR send email to our mailserver at info at usenix.org. Your message should contain the line: send catalog. A catalog will be returned to you.