From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Tue Jan 10 21:41:01 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 21:41:01 -0800 Subject: BayLISA: Dave Hitz on NFS Benchmarks Message-ID: <9501102141.ZM29880@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PDT. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- January 19th: The Myth of NFS Throughput: Response-time Bound Networks Dave Hitz, co-founder of Network Appliance Corporation Although the LADDIS NFS benchmark measures both throughput and response-time, most people focus almost exclusively on throughput. This is unfortunate, because in real-world configurations, response time is an important limit to total server throughput, along with more commonly recognized limits such as network bandwidth and the number of disk spindles available. This talk focuses on relating LADDIS performance to real world networks and configurations, to understanding what causes response-time bound networks, and to describing the file architecture that Network Appliance appliance uses to achieve fast NFS service. February 16th: Amy Kreiling on the World Wide Web Stay tuned for more information 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From ple at Synopsys.COM Thu Jan 12 11:15:45 1995 From: ple at Synopsys.COM (ple at Synopsys.COM) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 11:15:45 -0800 Subject: Summary of actions taken at SAGE Board of Directors meetings - 1994 Message-ID: <199501121915.AA06980@gaea.synopsys.com> For the benefit of the SAGE membership, here is a brief summary of the actions taken by the SAGE board of directors at their meetings and teleconferences in 1994. If you have questions for the board about these or other issues, feel free to contact us at sage-board at usenix.org. Paul Evans, SAGE Secretary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary of the Actions Taken at the SAGE Board of Directors Meetings - 1994 January 20, 1994 meeting It was decided that the sage mailing list would be restricted to members only and that the sage-announce mailing list would be available to all subscribers. The Board decided to solicit proposals for appointing a SAGE standards representative to attend meetings on SAGE's behalf. March 1994 The working groups sage-conf, sage-robbies, and sage-pr were disbanded, and sage-outreach and sage-pt were made into discussion groups. It was decided to develop a sage-jobs-offered mailing list and that Pat Wilson would be reponsible for monitoring the postings. April 1994 It was suggested that Shoshana Abrass be asked to chair head the sage-ethics working group. It was decided to add a member services page to the SAGE WWW server allowing members to advertise products and services. Ron Hall became the new chair to the sage-edu working group. June. 1994 It was decided that nominating committee members are not be eligible to run for office for the SAGE board. It was decided that SAGE would again co-sponsor the SANS Conference in cooperation with Fed UNIX to be held in Washington DC in Spring 1995. The subcommittee's recommendation to accept from Darmohray and Evans to co-chair LISA '95 was accepted. It was decided that a copy of each new SAGE publication would be sent to all current members at the time of its release. It was decided that future Open Board meetings beginning with New Orleans would be conducted as BoFs. It was decided that Larry Wall would be the recipient of the 1994 SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award. July 1994 Brent Chapman had indicated that due to time constraints, he would have to step down as the SAGE postmaster. The postition has since been filled by Scott Seebass, who is the system administrator for the Association's executive office. September 1994 It was decided to investigate the possibility of developing an on-line resource center which would consist of a forum for discussion as well as tools and techniques for system administrators. The SAGE locals groups document was accepted by the Board. It was decided to investigate translating the SAGE Jobs for System Administrators booklet into French and Swedish Greg Rose would replace Tom Christiansen as the USENIX board liaison to SAGE. The SAGE/USENIX track at UniForum was slated for a Sunday/Monday time slot, offering three to six tutorials. It was decided that future LISA program committee's would meet to delirate on selection of papers at the Association's offices in May. October 1994 Sage-security was changed into a discussion group. From toni Fri Jan 13 14:43:56 1995 From: toni (Toni Veglia) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 95 14:43:56 PST Subject: SANS IV Conference Message-ID: <9501132243.AA18449@usenix.ORG> SANS'95 4th UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION, NETWORKING & SECURITY CONFERENCE Sponsored by THE OPEN SYSTEMS CONFERENCE BOARD with the cooperation of SAGE The System Administrators Guild, a Special Technical Group of the USENIX Association April 24-29, 1995 Washington, DC THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS: 1. SANS'95 Conference Schedule and Conference Description 2. List Of SANS'95 Technical Sessions 3. List Of SANS'95 Courses and Workshops 4. Registration Information and Forms For detailed sessions abstracts and/or detailed course descriptions, email sans at fedunix.org. In the body, request Course Descriptions or Technical Session Descriptions. ******************************************************** Please join us at the 4th Annual System Administration, Networking, and Security Conference. This year's program has seven timely new courses and dozens of new papers by the industry's most effective speakers. SANS'95 is a technical conference offering system administrators, security administrators, and network managers a unique forum in which to gain up-to-date information about immediately useful tools and techniques, in addition to sharing ideas and experiences and network with peers. SANS'95 has augmented its in-depth courses and paper sessions with special new courses and papers on the World Wide Web, the Best Free Software for System Administrators, Useful Security Tools, Four Key Skills For Professional Advancement, and more. Another unique aspect of SANS is its "commercial tools" sessions that provide technical insights into the capabilities of the most popular and useful commercial software and hardware tools for system and network administrators and security professionals. SANS'95 begins with three days of intense courses on the most useful techniques for systems, network, and security administration -- all taught by the highest rated instructors in their fields. The courses are followed by the triple-track technical conference which focuses on tools and techniques you can begin using immediately. Track 1: System Administration Track 2: Security Track 3: Network Administration and the Internet SANS'95 also offers optional parallel technical sessions on commercial tools complemented by an evening, hands-on reception on Thursday with the tools vendors. For those who want to be sure to get maximum value from a week of training, SANS'95 has added Post-Conference Workshops on "How To Find and Use The Best Free Software," "Four Skills For Professional Advancement," and "UNIX System and Network Performance Tuning." Additionally, Birds of A Feather sessions and "The Guru Is In" sessions enable you to spend time with others who share your interests and with the experts who can answer your special questions. ***************** DATES TO REMEMBER ***************** VERY EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 15, 1995 VERY EARLY REGISTRATION BONUS: ************************************************************* **** Those who pay for SANS'95 before February 15 will **** **** receive a free, AUTOGRAPHED, copy of Evi Nemeth, **** **** Trent Hein, and the other authors' authoritative **** **** new, 800 page UNIX System Administration Handbook **** **** (Prentice Hall, 1995) that includes a CD-ROM with **** **** a wealth of useful software and reference materials.**** ************************************************************* PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 4, 1995 HOTEL RESERVATION DEADLINE: April 4, 1995 Note: SANS has space for 400 participants. Last year, SANS was oversubscribed, and registration was closed three weeks before the conference started. Please register early this year. All conference sessions are held at the Stouffers Concourse Hotel in Arlington. (Fly to Washington National Airport.) SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1995: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm REGISTRATION MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1995 9:00 am - 5:00 pm FULL-DAY COURSES 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm MOVIE NIGHT TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1995 9:00 am - 5:00 pm FULL-DAY COURSES 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AFFINITY GROUP BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1995 8:30 am - 3:45 pm FULL-DAY COURSES (early start and finish; short breaks) ***TECHNICAL CONFERENCE BEGINS*** 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm KEYNOTE: ON THE INTERNET 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1995 8:30 am - 5:00 pm TRIPLE-TRACK TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 5:15 pm - 9:15 pm RECEPTION AND VENDOR EXHIBIT 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS (If desired) FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1995 8:30 am - 4:00 pm TRIPLE-TRACK TECHNICAL CONFERENCE SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1995 8:30 am - 4:00 pm POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS: Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs) are informal but important aspects of the SANS program. BOFs enable attendees to discuss topics of mutual interest and to build professional relationships with other sysadmins who share similar interests. These highly interactive sessions will be held each evening and will last from one to two hours each. To schedule a BOF,contact the SANS BOF Coordinator, John Stewart (Cisco Systems) at email: jns at cisco.com, phone: +1. 408.526.8499, or call the SANS Office at 719-599-4303. COMMERCIAL TOOLS TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND VENDOR DISPLAY: This unique feature of SANS lets you compare capabilities of many of the popular network and system management software offerings from both hardware and software companies. The speakers are encouraged to offer technical briefings without marketing fluff. The Thursday, April 27, evening vendor table-top demonstrations offer additional time to get answers to your questions -- while using the tools themselves. Many UNIX installations -- especially non-research installations -- use commercial software for network and system management and security. If your site is considering commercial tools, this is an opportunity to save time in evaluating a selection of the best alternatives. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND WORKBOOK: One copy of the SANS'95 Proceedings And Workbook is included with each Technical Sessions registration fee. Additional copies may be purchased at the Conference or ordered from the USENIX Association Executive Office (510-528-8649; email: office at usenix.org). THE GURU IS IN: Facing any challenges? Have a particular problem? Find answers and solutions to your problems by talking one-on-one with the experts. Guru sessions will be scheduled throughout the Technical Conference. Suggestions or requests for particular guru sessions may be sent via email to sans at fedunix.org. The final schedule with topics, times, and guru names will be posted at the conference. TERMINAL ROOM: Once again this year, a Terminal room will be available for you at SANS. Located in Room 110 of the conference hotel, it will provide connections to the Internet. =============================================================== HOTEL INFORMATION The conference will be held at the Stouffers Concourse Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington DC. The hotel is less than a half-mile from National Airport, and transportation from the airport is free via a shuttle that runs continuously from 5:30 am to 1:00 am. From the hotel, Washington's award-winning Metro is a short three-block walk. It will take you quickly to most of the major attractions: The Capitol The White House The Smithsonian Museums (including the Air and Space Museum) The National Gallery Of Art The Washington Memorial The Federal Bureau of Investigation The Washington Zoo (with the last remaining Chinese Panda) The Holocaust Museum and many more attractions. In addition, Georgetown and Alexandria are short cab rides away. For the shoppers, one of the great malls: Pentagon City, is very close and the hotel bus will take you and pick you up. IMPORTANT: Please make your hotel reservations early. The Stouffers Hotel is always sold out during the busy Spring season. HOTEL ADDRESS AND CONTACT: Stouffers Concourse Hotel 2399 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 Telephone: Toll Free: 1-800-468-3571 or 703-418-6800 FAX: 703-418-3763 PRICES: $129 Single or Double (Special SANS Rate) Cut Off Date for Hotel Reservations: April 4, 1995 TO MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION Special hotel rates have been arranged for SANS attendees. Call the hotel directly and ask for the Reservation Desk or use the toll free line (800-468-3571). To take advantage of our group rate, tell reservations that you are a SANS Conference attendee. A one night's deposit is required if your arrival time will be after 4:00 pm. You also may FAX your reservation to the Stouffers. IMPORTANT! Room reservation deadline is April 4, 1995. But please make your reservations earlier than that so you can be sure of getting a room GETTING TO WASHINGTON: If you come by air, it is most convenient to fly into Washington National Airport (rather than the Dulles or Baltimore-Washington airports) because the hotel is so close to National. We strongly encourage you to use excursion fares and stay over a Saturday evening. For a trip from Denver, for example, you may save as much as $700. ============================= SANS'95 COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ============================= MONDAY APRIL 24: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm M1: (FROM THEIR NEW BOOK) Topics in Network Administration, Evi Nemeth (Univ. of Colorado) and Trent Hein (XOR Network Engineering) M2: UNIX Security: Threats and Solutions, Matt Bishop (Univ. of California at Davis) M3: Sendmail Configuration and DNS Management, Rob Kolstad (BSDI) and Tina Darmohray (Great Circle Associates) TUESDAY APRIL 25: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm T4: (FROM THEIR NEW BOOK) Topics In System Administration, Evi Nemeth (Univ. of Colorado) and Trent Hein (XOR Network Engineering) T5: (NEW) Surfing 2000 Part I: Catching The Wave, An Introduction to The Internet, Amy Kreiling (Univ. of North Carolina) with John Stewart (Cisco) T6: UNIX Security Course 2: Threats and Solutions From The Network and Security Challenges In Programs, Matt Bishop (Univ. of California at Davis) T7: (NEW) Managing, Hiring, Ethics, and Policy for System Administrators, Rob Kolstad (BSDI) and Tina Darmohray (Great Circle Associates) WEDNESDAY APRIL 26: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm W8: Practical Perl, Tom Christiansen W9: (NEW) Surfing 2000: Building A Successful World-Wide Web, Amy Kreiling (Univ. of North Carolina) with John Stewart (Cisco) W10: (NEW) UNIX Security Course 3: UNIX Security Tools and Internal Security, Matt Bishop (Univ. of California at Davis) and Rob Kolstad (BSDI) W11: (NEW) Constucting Firewalls For Network Security Tina Darmohray (Great Circle Associates) POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS SATURDAY APRIL 29: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm S12:(NEW) Four Keys To Professional Advancement: managing users,managing your boss, effective technical presentations, effective writing, Bill Howell, Rob Kolstad, Alan Paller, and Carolyn Sherman S13: (NEW) The Most Useful Tools For System Administrators: Where To Find Them, How To Use Them, Bjorn Satdeva (/sys/admin, inc.) S14: (NEW) UNIX System and Network Performance Tuning, Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems (For detailed course descriptions, email SANS at fedunix.org. Put COURSES in the body or subject.) ========================= SANS TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ========================= CHAIR: ROB KOLSTAD, BSDI Keynote: Wednesday, April 26th, 4:15 pm Internet Revealed Carl Malamud Presented by the man who many claim is doing more to mainstream the Internet than all the world's governments and professional societies, together. =================================== SANS'95 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION TRACK =================================== Thursday, April 27, 1995 9:00 am to 5:30 pm Friday, April 28, 1995 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Goals of System Administration Elizabeth Zwicky, Silicon Graphics How To Hire Good System Administrators Michele Crabb, Sterling Software-NASA Ames System Administration Ethics Rob Kolstad, BSDI The 1994 SANS Salary Survey Alan Paller, Computer Associates Advanced Topics In perl (Four separate parts) Tom Christiansen >From the other side of the desk: Observations of consumers from executives in the software and service industries Scott Menter and Rob Kolstad "Best of Sys Admin Magazine" Joint project with Sys Admin Magazine to bring the author of 1994's year's best article to SANS. People Skills for the System Administrator P. David Parks, IEEE Managing People's Data Diana Le, NAS Systems Division, NASA Ames Research Center Client-Server Disaster Recovery: Process Organization James C. Murphy, Glaxo Inc. Maintaining Large Software Repositories with SLINK R4 Alva L. Couch, Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science, Tufts University and Greg Owen, Xerox Information Systems Experiences With Legato NetWorker: Backing-up Heterogeneity Phillip Scarr, Neuroclinical Trials Center, The Virginia Neurological Institute Some Observations and Experiences Regarding Remote Sites and Corporate Mergers in a Large, Heterogeneous Network Jody Fraser, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation Using Surveys To Manage Clients' Perception of Help Desk Service Delivery Tom Jordan, Vice President, Deutsche Bank A Mail Proxy Approach to Managing Shared Facilities Peter Koski, Goldman, Sachs & Co. =========================== SANS'95 SECURITY TRACK =========================== CHAIRS: Michele Crabb, Sterling and NASA, and Matt Bishop, U. Cal. Davis Thursday, April 27, 1995 9:00 am to 5:30 pm Friday, April 28, 1995 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Plenary Panel: Computer Security and the Law - Who Do You Call When Something Happens? Scott Charney, Dept. of Justice, and friends A Network Security FAQ: (Frequently Agonizing Quandaries) Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems The Basics of UNIX Vulnerabilities: Case Studies and Analysis Matt Bishop, Univ. Cal. at Davis The Pros and Cos of Vulnerability Information Disclosure Gene Spafford, Purdue University Building A Security Infrastructure: What You Want vs. What You Need vs. What You Can Afford Michele Crabb, Sterling Software, NASA Ames Security Technology: Enabler or Disabler Dan Geer, OpenVision Panel: Experience With The Internet Sniffer Attacks Arranged by Michele Crabb ================================== SANS NETWORKING AND INTERNET TRACK ================================== CHAIR: Amy Kreiling, UNC Friday, April 28, 1995 9:00 am to 4:00 pm History of UNIX and the Internet Peter Salus A Primer on Connecting to the Internet Safely and Reliably Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems PONG: A Flexible Network Services Monitoring System Helen Harrison, SAS Institute, Inc. with Mike C. Mitchell and Mike E. Shaddock Internet: Hot Topics Amy Kreiling, University of North Carolina The Future Of The Internet: What's Really Happening With Communications? To Be Named Nuts and Bolts of ISDN: A Practical Guide Jack Stewart, Center for Advanced Computational Research, California Institute of Technology Performance Monitoring for Network Preemptive Maintenance F. B. Motahdi and David C. C. Wang, GTE Telephone Operations The NetScanner Network Monitoring Tool: A Quick, Simple And Extensible Network Watcher Jack Stewart, Center for Advanced Computational Research, California Institute of Technology =========================== SANS COMMERCIAL TOOLS TRACK =========================== Thursday, April 27, 1995 9:00 am to 5:30 pm Briefings by technical managers from twelve leading firms offering important commercial software and hardware products of immediate value to system administrators and security managers. Followed by The Hands-On Tools Reception (5:30 - 8:30) where you can get your hands on the tools an ask the questions you want answered, and, at the same time, you can eat and drink and talk with other SANS people, all courtesy of the vendors. ================================================================= REGISTRATION INFORMATION Mail Your Registration To SANS'95 8902 Edgefield Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80920 or You may FAX your registration if you use a credit card. FAX: 719-599-4395. Questions: Email to sans at fedunix.org or call the conference office 719-599-4303. REFUND CANCELLATION POLICY If you must cancel, all refund requests must be in writing and postmarked no later than September 12, 1994. Direct your letter to the USENIX Conference Office. You may telephone to substitute another in your place. ================================================================= SANS'95 Registration Form NAME________________________________________________________________ (first) (last) FIRST NAME FOR BADGE____________________________ POSITION TITLE__________________________________________ COMPANY OR INSTITUTION______________________________________________ DEPARTMENT__________________________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS_____________________________________________________ CITY___________________________STATE_____COUNTRY________ZIP_________ TELEPHONE NO:_________________________FAX NO._______________________ NETWORK ADDRESS_____________________________________________________ (Please write legibly) If you do NOT want to appear in the attendee list, check here: ___ Is this your first SANS Conference? ___Yes ___No If No, which SANS did you attend? 92___, 93___, 94___ What is your affiliation? ___ Academic ___ Commercial ___ Gov't. The address you provide will be used for all future SANS mailings unless you notify us in writing. --------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Please check all the programs you will attend. MONDAY, APRIL 24 __M1: Topics in Network Administration (Nemeth and Hein) __M2: UNIX Security: Threats and Solutions (Bishop) __M3: Sendmail Configuration and DNS Management (Darmohray and Kolstad) TUESDAY APRIL 25: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm __T4: Topics In System Administration (Nemeth and Hein) __T5: Surfing 2000 Part I: Catching The Wave, An Introduction to The Internet (Kreiling and Stewart) __T6: UNIX Security Course 2: Threats and Solutions From The Network and Security Challenges In Programs (Bishop) __T7: Managing, Hiring, Ethics, and Policy for System Administrators (Kolstad and Darmohray) WEDNESDAY APRIL 26: 8:30 am to 3:45 pm __W8: Practical Perl (Christiansen) __W9: Surfing 2000: Building A Successful World-Wide Web (Kreiling) __W10: UNIX Security Course 3: UNIX Security Tools and Internal Security (Bishop and Kolstad) __W11: Firewalls (Darmohray) TECHNICAL CONFERENCE Wednesday late afternoon plus all day Thursday and Friday. __Check here if you will attend the technical conference. POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS SATURDAY APRIL 29: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm __S12: Four Keys To Professional Advancement: managing users, ethics, effective technical presentations, effective writing (Howell, Kolstad, Paller and Sherman) __S13: The Most Useful Tools For System Administrators: Where To Find Them, How To Use Them (Satdeva) __S14: UNIX System and Network Performance Tuning (Ranum) Registration fees: ================== VERY EARLY REGISTRATION: Prior to February 15, 1994 Same cost as early registration (see below) and we will send you a free, autographed copy of the 2nd Edition of Evi Nemeth's UNIX System Administration Handbook (800 pages plus a CD-ROM) which is being published in January, 1995. EARLY REGISTRATION: Prior To March 15, 1995 Conference only $495 Conference and One Day Of Courses $845 Conference and Two Days Of Courses $1145 Conference and Three Days Of Courses $1395 Conference and Four Days Of Courses $1620 One Day Of Courses (no conference) $395 Two Days Of Courses (no conference) $695 Three Days Of Courses (no conference) $975 Four Days Of Courses (no conference) $1245 REGISTRATION After March 15, AND ON-SITE REGISTRATION Conference only $545 Conference and One Day Of Courses $895 Conference and Two Days Of Courses $1195 Conference and Three Days Of Courses $1445 Conference and Four Days Of Courses $1670 One Day Of Courses (no conference) $445 Two Days Of Courses (no conference) $745 Three Days Of Courses (no conference) $1025 Four Days of Courses (no conference) $1295 Note: Conference attendance is strictly limited to 400 participants. YOU MAY ALSO USE THIS FORM TO ORDER THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS: [ ] COPY OF EVI NEMETH'S "UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION HANDBOOK: 2ND EDITION" (800 pp plus a CD-ROM) (The book will be shipped to you if you if you register before March 15. There is no charge if you register and pay prior to February 15, 1995; otherwise the cost is $60) [ ] COPIES OF COURSE NOTES FOR COURSES YOU DO NOT ATTEND List the course numbers here and include $25 for each course you list: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ PAYMENT: Total fee: (from the table above plus cost of Nemeth's book and/or any extra course notes) $_____________ ___ Check Enclosed (payable to Open Systems Conference Board) ___ Federal Purchase Order Enclosed ___ Charge my credit card: ___ AMEX ___ MasterCard ___ VISA Number: ________________________________________ Expires (date): __________________________________ Your signature for credit card: __________________________________ ******************************************************************** PAYMENT OR FEDERAL PO MUST ACCOMPANY REGISTRATION FORM. REGISTRATION VIA EMAIL IS NOT ACCEPTED. ******************************************************************** Return this form, with your check to SANS'95 Conference Office, 8902 Edgefield Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80920 or FAX it to 719-599-4395 if you are using a credit card. Questions: Email sans at fedunix.org or call the conference office at 719-599-4303. From paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu Wed Jan 18 13:35:15 1995 From: paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 16:35:15 -0500 Subject: A new SAGE member benefit! Message-ID: <199501182135.QAA17734@rigel.dartmouth.edu> SAGE is pleased to announce the inauguration of a new service for members - the SAGE Member-Provided Services Page on the SAGE Web. SAGE members in good standing can "advertise" here via a pointer to a company or personal page that you maintain - think of it as a bulletin board in the Guild Hall, if you will. To be listed, send your name, email address, a one-line HTML entry pointing to your page, and an idea of the type of service you're advertizing (e.g. "Training", "Programming", "General Consulting", etc) to paw at usenix.org. I'll try to group things on the page accordingly. The Members' Services page will be attached to the SAGE home page (http://www.sage.usenix.org/sage/sage.html) eventually (sometime in the next few weeks). It's http://www.sage.usenix.org/sage/hypertext/member-services.html If you've got ideas about a better title or layout, let me know that as well. Pat Wilson Member, SAGE Board paw at usenix.org || paw at northstar.dartmouth.edu From xev at morgan.com Tue Jan 24 08:54:09 1995 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 11:54:09 -0500 Subject: February NYSA Meeting (2/13/95) Message-ID: <9501241154.ZM24823@odudua.morgan.com> The February meeting of the New York Systems Administration group (NYSA) will be held on Monday, February 13 at 6:15pm. We've got yet another kind company to sponsor the event. It will be held at Deutsche Bank, located at 1290 6th Avenue, between 51st and 52nd streets. Viktor Dukhovni, Director of R&D for Enterprise Systems Management, will discuss "Managing Names in Really Really Big Enterprises." Viktor is chief architect of ESMC's UName*It (R) product, which enables groups of systems administrators to collectively administer a large name space in a commercial environment. Viktor will review issues in name space management and present his views on how those issues are best addressed by systems administrators. Prior to joining ESMC, Viktor spent three years as a senior architect at Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible (among other things) for addressing that firm's mission critical name space management requirements. Viktor has a master's degree in mathematics from Princeton University, and has been a guest speaker at Interop and other major conferences. Directions by subway: The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. Hope to see you all there. Xev From toni Mon Jan 30 15:11:17 1995 From: toni (Toni Veglia) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 15:11:17 PST Subject: USENIX/SAGE Tutorials at UniForum 1995 Message-ID: <9501302311.AA09506@usenix.ORG> USENIX/SAGE TUTORIALS ON INTERNET SECURITY, UNIX POWER TOOLS, FIREWALLS, AND THE LAW AND COMPUTERS At the Uniforum Exposition & Conference March 12-13, 1995 Dallas Convention Center Dallas, Texas =========================================================== This posting contains complete tutorial descriptions. For more conference information and registration, please call (617) 449-5554 or access the Internet World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.uniforum.org. =========================================================== These intensive tutorials explore effective management techniques in areas critical to your career. Sunday, March 12 ================ - Internet System Administrator's Tutorial Ed DeHart, Computer Emergency Response Team - UNIX Power Tools - Getting the Most Out of UNIX Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Monday, March 13 ================ - Firewalls - Achieving Security in an Internet Environment Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. - The Law and the Internet Daniel L. Appelman, Attorney, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe TUTORIAL DESCRIPTION ==================== INTERNET SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S TUTORIAL Instructor: Ed DeHart, Computer Emergency Response Team Intended audience: Users and system administrators of UNIX systems, especially system administrators of UNIX systems connected to a wide area network based on TCP/IP such as the Internet. Some system administrator experience is assumed. The topics covered include: * System Administration - Defensive Strategies Password selection, Default login shell for unused accounts, Network daemon configuration, Verification of system programs, System configuration files, Searching for hidden intruder files, Staying current with software releases, Standard accounting files, NFS configuration * System Administration - Offensive Strategies COPS, Tripwire, Crack, ISS (network sweeping program), /bin/passwd replacement programs, TCP/IP packet filtering, TCP/IP daemon wrapper programs, Security in programming * Security Information Servers Anonymous FTP, Gophers, World Wide Web (WWW) * Site-Specific Security Policies Maintaining good security at your site, Providing guidance to users, Handling incidents in an effective and orderly fashion, Reviewing Site Security Policy Handbook (RFC 1244) * Incident Handling What to do if your site is broken into? Ed DeHart is a founding member of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). The CERT was formed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, now ARPA) in 1988 to serve as a focal point for the computer security concerns of Internet users. The Coordination Center for the CERT is located at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, PA. *********************************************** UNIX POWER TOOLS - GETTING THE MOST OUT OF UNIX Instructor: Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Intended audience: Programmers, managers, and system administrators wanting to learn more about the powerful development tools available on UNIX. This tutorial emphasizes software development rather than system administration. This course discusses: * Perl - a prototyping and scripting language that often provides a total solution for many problems * Tcl/Tk - an appetite-whetting set of oxamples about a very powerful windowing mechanism * RCS and CVS - source control and management systems for small and large groups of programmers * Software Distribution - how to choose the correct media for distributing your product (including CD-ROM) * Make - an introduction to the common features of this powerful program building utility * Patch - how to create patch distibutions for maintaining source files in the field * Portability - some issues to consider when writing portable software Dr. Rob Kolstad is President of Berkeley Software Design, Inc., where he manages a handful of engineers scattered across the USA. He teaches system administration in a wide variety of venues in addition to editing the USENIX Association's newsletter, ;login:. Rob served six years on the USENIX System Administration (LISA) Conferences. ********************************************************* FIREWALLS - ACHIEVING SECURITY IN AN INTERNET ENVIRONMENT Instructors: Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Intended audience: System administrators, programmers, technical and operational managers, and all interested professionals involved in securing computer networks and/or internetwork gateways. Prerequisites are a knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, and sendmail. Connecting to the Internet is an exciting event for every organization. This security implications can often bring hesitation, though. This practical full-day tutorial outlines details and examples of UNIX network security and Internet connectivity issues covering sites policies and topologies that implement them, including packet- filtering, application-level, and circuit-level gateways. Overviews of current, publicityavailable solutions will be provided, focusing on complete examples for configuring an Internet firewall. This tutorial covers: * Problem definition and design motivation * Nomenclature and design variations * Implementing firewalls Routers Purpose, Router-based firewalls, Packet-filtering configuration Gateway/Bastion host security Router and bastion-host based firewalls, Host security configuration, Bastion host software: tcpd, smrsh, and challenge-response passwd software Proxy solutions Miscellaneous public-domain proxies, SOCKS, TIS firewall toolkit Hiding information with DNS SOA and MX records to support the firewall, Dual-DNS configuration Sendmail configuration Configuration to operate with firewall topology, Header re-writing to support the firewall Tina Darmohray is the Lead for the UNIX System Administration Team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) where her group has responsibility for over 1,000 machines. In 1990, she installed the first firewall at LLNL and has since consulted at a number of sites in the Bay Area. Previously, she worked for Sun Microsystems. She has over a decade of experience as a UNIX system administrator. She will serve as Program Co-Chair for the 1995 Systems Administrators Conference. ************************ THE LAW AND THE INTERNET Instructor: Daniel Appelman, Attorney, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe Intended audience: Anyone interested in the legal issues arising out of the increasing use and popularity of the Internet, in particular, system administrators, contract administrators and company executives who need to develop policies about doing business electronically. The focus of this tutorial is the intersection of technology, law and public policy and the kinds of problems that arise as commercial institutions make increasing use of electronic communications and the legal bases for resolving those problems. The tutorial addresses the following issues: * Free speech and censorship in the electronic media * The limits of the rights of privacy and confidentiality of employees in cyberspace * Your right to monitor and revoke user privileges * Protection against libel and slander * Monitoring the content of electronic postings * Export law compliance * Intellectual property developments * The professionalization of system administration * Legal precedents and landmark cases Starting with case studies, you will receive background knowledge of the general principles of law in each area. Next, we attempt to apply these principles to the modern context. In most cases, we see that such application puts fascinating stresses and strains on the legal system, forcing 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. 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. Daniel L. Appelman is an attorney specializing in computer and telecommunications law in the Palo Alto office of the law firm Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe. He represents many software and telecommunications companies, such as UUNET Technologies, Inc., O'Reilly & Associates, Cygnus Support, and Xinet, Inc., and is a frequent writer and lecturer on his area of expertise. He is also legal counsel for the USENIX Association and was recently featured on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour in a segment about the Internet. ================================================================== For more information about other USENIX conferences, please access the USENIX Resource Center on the World Wide Web. The URL is: http://www.usenix.org. Or, send mail to our mailserver at: info at usenix.org In your message, type the line: send conferences catalog. From xev at morgan.com Thu Feb 9 10:29:17 1995 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:29:17 -0500 Subject: February NYSA Meeting (2/13/95): Note Floor Message-ID: <9502091329.ZM10031@odudua.morgan.com> The February meeting of the New York Systems Administration group (NYSA) will be held on Monday, February 13 at 6:15pm. We've got yet another kind company to sponsor the event. It will be held at Deutsche Bank, located at 1290 6th Avenue, between 51st and 52nd streets, on floor 12M (***NOTE FLOOR****). Viktor Dukhovni, Director of R&D for Enterprise Systems Management, will discuss "Managing Names in Really Really Big Enterprises." Viktor is chief architect of ESMC's UName*It (R) product, which enables groups of systems administrators to collectively administer a large name space in a commercial environment. Viktor will review issues in name space management and present his views on how those issues are best addressed by systems administrators. Prior to joining ESMC, Viktor spent three years as a senior architect at Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible (among other things) for addressing that firm's mission critical name space management requirements. Viktor has a master's degree in mathematics from Princeton University, and has been a guest speaker at Interop and other major conferences. Directions by subway: The B, D, F, or Q all stop at 6th and 50th. Hope to see you all there. Xev From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Thu Feb 9 15:22:49 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 15:22:49 -0800 Subject: BayLISA: Amy Kreiling on the WWW Message-ID: <9502091522.ZM19176@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- February 16th: Amy Kreiling on the World Wide Web March 16th: Arch Mott on the MBONE April 20th: Rich Salz on DCE 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From xev at morgan.com Wed Mar 8 09:02:09 1995 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 12:02:09 -0500 Subject: March NYSA Meeting (3/13/95) Message-ID: <9503081202.ZM13180@moe> The March meeting of the New York Systems Administration group (NYSA) will be held on Monday, March 13 at 6:15pm. This meeting will be hosted by Box Hill Systems, located at 161 6th Avenue, 10th Floor (on the corner of 6th and spring). [Sorry for the late notice] At Monday's NYSA meeting, Perry Metzger will be speaking on the latest proposals being discussed in the IETF for securing the internet, including the IPSP proposal of which he is a co-author. As the Internet has expanded and as companies have started to depend on it more and more for their day to day operations, the security of the internet protocol suite (or lack thereof) has become more and more of an issue of wide importance. The Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF, which is the organization that plans the future directions of the internet, has been working on this problem with increasing urgency. Perry is the President of Piermont Information Systems, a New York metro area consulting firm. Perry has worked at Bellcore, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, and is deeply involved in current efforts to improve the security of the Internet Directions by Subway - C or E train to Spring Street Station Xev Gittler xev at morgan.com From ple at Synopsys.COM Wed Mar 8 21:59:49 1995 From: ple at Synopsys.COM (ple at Synopsys.COM) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 95 21:59:49 -0800 Subject: LISA 9 Call for Participation Message-ID: <199503090559.AA21859@gaea.synopsys.com> Pre-LISA '95 Workshop: Advanced Topics in System Administration September 19, 1995 Monterey, CA A one-day, pre-LISA conference workshop, to be held Tuesday, September 19, 1995, will focus on a discussion of the latest-breaking technical issues in the systems administration arena as introduced by those in attendance. Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a position paper. Acceptance notices to all participants will be issued by August 7, 1994. HOW TO SUBMIT: Potential workshop attendees are invited to submit a proposal of at most 3 pages (ASCII) via electronic mail to jes at sgi.com no later than August 1. These proposals should briefly contain a topic for discussion, a description of the subject, an explanation of what makes this topic controversial or interesting, and a personal position. (More substantative reports of completed works should instead be submitted as papers to the technical sessions.) A representative subset of positions will be discussed in an open forum. The workshop is being organized by John Schimmel of Silicon Graphics. Mail these proposals to jes at sgi.com by August 1. Chosen participants will be notified by August 14. Participants must be pre-registered for the LISA conference. No additional fee will be charged to attend this workshop, and lunch will be provided. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '95) September 18-22, 1995 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California Co-sponsored by USENIX, the 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 - Coping with the commercialization of the Internet - Support models in use at your site - 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 at or to: 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 deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Sun Mar 12 21:26:10 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 21:26:10 -0800 Subject: (BayLISA: Arch Mott on using MBONE internally Message-ID: <9503122126.ZM12787@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PDT. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- March 16: Arch Mott on using MBONE in your organization Many folks are familiar with the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBONE) and have "participated" by watching Shuttle missions, IETF meetings, lectures, etc. What many people may not realize is that the tools in use on the MBONE are easily adaptable for use as a low cost multimedia conferencing system inside their own organizations. I will be discussing techniques for connecting to the MBONE, configuring internal mutlicast networking and some cross-platform compatibility issues. I will also be sharing my own experiences with implementing the "CBONE", Cisco's internal multicast backone. April 20: Rich Salz on DCE 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From ple at Synopsys.COM Wed Mar 22 14:34:13 1995 From: ple at Synopsys.COM (ple at Synopsys.COM) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 14:34:13 -0800 Subject: LISA 95 Announcement and Call for Participation Message-ID: <199503222234.AA07570@gaea.synopsys.com> ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '95) September 18-22, 1995 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California Co-sponsored by USENIX, the 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 Advanced Topics in System Administration Workshop: Proposals Due: August 1, 1995 Notification to authors: August 14, 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. WORKSHOP: ADVANCED TOPICS IN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Monday, September 18, 1995 A one-day, pre-LISA conference workshop, to be held Tuesday, September 19, 1995, will focus on a discussion of the latest-breaking technical issues in the systems administration arena as introduced by those in attendance. Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a position paper. Acceptance notices to all participants will be issued by August 14, 1995. HOW TO SUBMIT: Potential workshop attendees are invited to submit a proposal of at most 3 pages (ASCII) via electronic mail to jes at sgi.com no later than August 1. These proposals should briefly contain a topic for discussion, a description of the subject, an explanation of what makes this topic controversial or interesting, and a personal position. (More substantive reports of completed works should instead be submitted as papers to the technical sessions.) A representative subset of positions will be discussed in an open forum. The workshop is being organized by John Schimmel of Silicon Graphics. Mail these proposals to jes at sgi.com by August 1. Chosen participants will be notified by August 14. Participants must be pre-registered for the LISA conference. No additional fee will be charged to attend this workshop, and lunch will be provided. 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 - Coping with the commercialization of the Internet - Support models in use at your site - 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 +1 (510) 443-4425 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 or to: Laura de Leon, Hewlett-Packard +1 (415) 857-5605 FAX: +1 (415) 857-5686 E-mail: deleon at hpl.hp.com Peg Schafer, Harvard University +1 (617) 495-4927 FAX: +1 (617) 496-5508 E-mail: peg at harvard.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Co-chair: Tina Darmohray, Consultant 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 paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu Tue Apr 4 14:41:42 1995 From: paw at rigel.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:41:42 -0500 Subject: A SAGE statement about SATAN Message-ID: <199504042141.QAA23085@rigel.dartmouth.edu> [ In response to all the advance hype about SATAN, we present the following statement for the benefit of SAGE members and other interested parties. Pat Wilson SAGE Board of Directors paw at usenix.org || paw at dartmouth.edu ] What's all this about SATAN? ---------------------------- SATAN, to be released April 5th, is a Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks written by Dan Farmer and Wieste Venema. Combining a GUI front-end with a rule-based probe engine, it is both well designed and easy to configure, use, and upgrade. SATAN should definitely become part of every sysadmin's toolkit, right along with COPS and Swatch. As shipped, SATAN will test for 11 well-known vulnerabilities (NFS mounting holes, rexec, old sendmail versions, and suchlike) - if you've been paying attention to CERT advisories and patching accordingly, you should find few surprises. The tool is designed to probe, rather than probe and exploit. The real dangers of SATAN arise from its ease of use - an automated tool makes it very easy to probe around on the network. Arbitrary hosts may be probed, and the "network of trust" feature encourages searches of machines peripheral to the target machine (sites showing up in .rhosts files, for example, are automatically added to the probe list in most configurations). Denial of service due to large numbers of SATAN probes may be a very real issue for some well known sites. The other major worry is that little effort is required to add new probes (so new holes may be discovered and explored more rapidly by more people than in the past), and it seems a fairly small amount of work to convert "probe only" scripts to "probe and exploit." There's already been a "SATAN detector" released: Courtney (which detects SATAN probe activity via tcpdump data) is available from ftp://ciac.llnl.gov/pub/ciac/sectools/unix/. Other SATAN sniffers should be available soon. In summary: SATAN is a well-made tool which should prove valuable for security admins. Get it and use it. References: "Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into It", Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema SATAN documentation: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/satan_doc.tar.Z CERT advisory CA-95:06 : ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert-advisories CIAC Notes 95-07: ftp://ciac.llnl.gov/pub/ciac/notes From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Mon Apr 10 14:45:04 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 14:45:04 -0700 Subject: BayLISA: Rich Salz on DCE Message-ID: <9504101445.ZM9865@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- April 20th: Rich Salz on DCE The OSF DCE provides secure RPC. In order to meet this "simple" goal it was necessary to build a moderate infrastructure of a few core services. In this talk I will give a bit of DCE development history, an overview of the infrastructure, and point out how DCE will impact a system adminitrator's duties. I'll talk about DCE 1.0.3 and DCE 1.1. This is the "second edition" of a talk I presented at LISA VIII. 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From ple at synopsys.com Mon Apr 24 10:11:50 1995 From: ple at synopsys.com (ple at synopsys.com) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 10:11:50 -0700 Subject: Last Call for LISA 95 Paper Submissions! Message-ID: <199504241712.KAA05589@atropos.synopsys.com> The due date for submitting extended abstracts for the LISA 95 conference is one week from today, on Monday, May 1st! Please send your abstracts in to lisa9papers at usenix.org this week. We look forward to reviewing your submissions. Tina Darmohray Paul Evans ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '95) September 18-22, 1995 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California Co-sponsored by USENIX, the 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 Advanced Topics in System Administration Workshop: Proposals Due: August 1, 1995 Notification to authors: August 14, 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. WORKSHOP: ADVANCED TOPICS IN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Tuesday, September 19, 1995 A one-day, pre-LISA conference workshop, to be held Tuesday, September 19, 1995, will focus on a discussion of the latest-breaking technical issues in the systems administration arena as introduced by those in attendance. Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a position paper. Acceptance notices to all participants will be issued by August 14, 1995. HOW TO SUBMIT: Potential workshop attendees are invited to submit a proposal of at most 3 pages (ASCII) via electronic mail to jes at sgi.com no later than August 1. These proposals should briefly contain a topic for discussion, a description of the subject, an explanation of what makes this topic controversial or interesting, and a personal position. (More substantive reports of completed works should instead be submitted as papers to the technical sessions.) A representative subset of positions will be discussed in an open forum. The workshop is being organized by John Schimmel of Silicon Graphics. Mail these proposals to jes at sgi.com by August 1. Chosen participants will be notified by August 14. Participants must be pre-registered for the LISA conference. No additional fee will be charged to attend this workshop, and lunch will be provided. 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 - Coping with the commercialization of the Internet - Support models in use at your site - 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 +1 (510) 443-4425 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 or to: Laura de Leon, Hewlett-Packard +1 (415) 857-5605 FAX: +1 (415) 857-5686 E-mail: deleon at hpl.hp.com Peg Schafer, Harvard University +1 (617) 495-4927 FAX: +1 (617) 496-5508 E-mail: peg at harvard.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Co-chair: Tina Darmohray, Consultant 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 deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Thu May 11 17:26:00 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 17:26:00 -0700 Subject: BayLISA: Pacific Bell on ISDN Message-ID: <9505111726.ZM19375@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- May 18: Brent Freedman, ISDN Applications Engineer with Pacific Bell ISDN is becoming an important part of the telecommunications landscape, for telecommuting as well as local networks and Internet connections. Come find out more about what it is and how it works. Rad Justice will give an overview of the current Pacific Bell offerings. Brent Freedman will give a technical description of what ISDN is, how it works, and what the various configuration choices mean. June 15: Brian Pawlaski on NFS V3 July 20: Glen Kohler on Ergonomics August 17: Brent Chapman on firewalls (Schedule subject to revision) 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Sat Jun 3 13:48:13 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:48:13 -0700 Subject: BayLISA: Brian Pawlowski on NFS V3 Message-ID: <9506031348.ZM13199@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- June 15: Brian Pawlaski on NFS V3 Brian will describe the NFS V3 protocol, starting with some background and history of NFS, and then describe the NFS Version 3 design, implementation and performance. He will describe changes to the user interface for the mount command, how a V3 client works with both a V2 and V3 server, etc. July 20: Glen Kohler on Ergonomics August 17: Brent Chapman on firewalls (Schedule subject to revision) 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. --- End of forwarded mail from ("Laura de Leon") From xev at morgan.com Wed Jun 7 17:15:45 1995 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 20:15:45 -0400 Subject: (Fwd) June 13th NYSA Message-ID: <9506072015.ZM15158@morgan.com> The June meeting of the New York Systems Administration group (NYSA) will be held on TUESDAY, June 13th at 6:15pm. [Note that the meetings are now Tuesdays, not Mondays]. This meeting will be hosted by Box Hill Systems -- who once again agreed to host at the last minute --located at 161 6th Avenue, 10th Floor (on the corner of 6th and spring). The topic of this meeting will Backup Systems and Technologies. We will begin by having Ben Monderer of Box Hill talk about "Surviving Backup and Archiving in a Large Organization" (outline of this talk is attached). After Ben's talk, there will be a roundtable discussion of why there are no backup systems in existence that will meet our needs, and what needs to be done to rectify the situation. Or, people can explain how great the system that they use is, and why that is. Depending on the level of interest, we may put together a white paper to take to vendors so bring your pet peeves and your wish lists. I suspect it will be a long meeting, so we will buck tradition and start on time. Now, in addition to June's meeting, we have topics scheduled through October! In July, we will have another one of our multi-talk meetings where people get up and do a 10-20 minute talk on something interesting. I got a great response from the last one, so I think these will be popular meetings. I have some volunteers to talk at the next one already, but if you have something to say, please let me know! In August, Dan Geer of Geer-Zolot/Openvision and famous net.personality will be in to do a reprise of USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce. This conference has an attendance cap on 100, and everyone attending had to do a paper. It promises to be a hugely interesting conference, and since most of us won't be going, this should be a very interesting talk. In September, I will be presenting a talk that I will be giving at LISA on the Aurora environment under development at Morgan Stanley. Aurora is a distributed systems environment that will allow us to centrally manage 5-10,000 systems spread out over 40 offices on every continent on the globe in a fully production fashion. October will be another of the multi-talk meetings (we agreed on one every three months). November, December and all of next year are still open, so get your suggestions for speakers in early! I am also looking for more companies willing to sponsor these meetings, so chime in! Xev Gittler xev at morgan.com [ Outline of "Surviving Backup" Talk ] : Surviving Backup and Archiving in a Large Organization Introduction: o What is backup? What is recovery? o What is the difference between backup and archiving? o Why backup and archive? o Should backups be centralized? How? Hardware o The media questions: . What media is available? . Price/performance comparison o State of the art in drive technology o State of the art in robotic technology o State of the art in host data transfer technology Software o To buy or to roll your own - that's the question. o Key elements in backup and archiving software. o Can one package do it all? o What about databases? o What about archiving? Operations o Who is in charge and responsible? o Who performs backups and archiving in the organization? o Can be outsourced? o Preparing for all situations. o Monitoring o Preparing for the long term o What happens when technology changes? Putting it together o Building a system o What about communications? o Protecting yourself from failures o How to test the system o How to implement off-site backups or storage? o Calculating costs -------------- next part -------------- The June meeting of the New York Systems Administration group (NYSA) will be held on TUESDAY, June 13th at 6:15pm. [Note that the meetings are now Tuesdays, not Mondays]. The location will be announced shortly. The topic of this meeting will Backup Systems and Technologies. We will begin by having Ben Monderer of Box Hill talk about "Surviving Backup and Archiving in a Large Organization" (outline of this talk is attached). After Ben's talk, there will be a roundtable discussion of why there are no backup systems in existence that will meet our needs, and what needs to be done to rectify the situation. Depending on the level of interest, we may put together a white paper to take to vendors and slap them across the face with it (or, if the level of frustration has subsided a bit, perhaps hand it to them), so bring your pet peeves and your wish lists. I suspect it will be a long meeting, so we will buck tradition and start on time. Now, in addition to June's meeting, we have topics scheduled through October! In July, we will have another one of our multi-talk meetings where people get up and do a 10-20 minute talk on something interesting. I got a great response from the last one, so I think these will be popular meetings. I have some volunteers to talk at the next one already, but if you have something to say, please let me know! In August, Dan Geer of Geer-Zolot/Openvision and a famous net.personality will be in to do a reprise of USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce. This conference has an attendance cap on 100, and everyone attending had to do a paper. It promises to be a hugely interesting conference, and since most of us won't be going, this should be a very interesting talk. The Call for Participation for the conference is attached. September is still tentative, and more will come on that later. October will be another of the multi-talk meetings (we agreed on one every three months). November, December and all of next year are still open, so get your suggestions for speakers in early! Xev -------------- next part -------------- Surviving Backup and Archiving in a Large Organization Introduction: o What is backup? What is recovery? o What is the difference between backup and archiving? o Why backup and archive? o Should backups be centralized? How? Hardware o The media questions: . What media is available? . Price/performance comparison o State of the art in drive technology o State of the art in robotic technology o State of the art in host data transfer technology Software o To buy or to roll your own - that's the question. o Key elements in backup and archiving software. o Can one package do it all? o What about databases? o What about archiving? Operations o Who is in charge and responsible? o Who performs backups and archiving in the organization? o Can be outsourced? o Preparing for all situations. o Monitoring o Preparing for the long term o What happens when technology changes? Putting it together o Building a system o What about communications? o Protecting yourself from failures o How to test the system o How to implement off-site backups or storage? o Calculating costs From ple at synopsys.com Thu Jun 8 10:52:58 1995 From: ple at synopsys.com (ple at synopsys.com) Date: Thu, 08 Jun 95 10:52:58 -0700 Subject: nominations for 1995 SAGE Achievement Award Message-ID: <199506081753.KAA18907@atropos.synopsys.com> SAGE is soliciting nominations for its third annual Achievement Award, to be presented this September in Monterey at the USENIX/SAGE LISA 95 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 professional contributions 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. Last year's recipient was Larry Wall, for his work on Perl and other system administration tools. 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 professional accomplishments you believe deserve the recognition of a SAGE Achievement Award to sage-award at usenix.org. Paul Evans SAGE Board From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Thu Jul 6 16:31:05 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:31:05 -0700 Subject: BayLISA: Glen Kohler on Ergonomics Message-ID: <9507061631.ZM6111@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- July 20: Glen Kohler on Ergonomics Ergonomic safety depends on performance skills fully as much as environmental safety. While the literature contains many references to posture & body mechanics, this theme is woefully underdeveloped compared to furniture, chairs, and wrist rests. The Chinese martial and medical arts offer tools and methods to correct this bias. August 17: Brent Chapman on firewalls ***NOTE the date for the September meeting is the 2nd Thursday, not 3rd*** September 14: Mike Dixon, Xerox PARC (Schedule subject to revision) For further information on BayLISA, check out our (minimal) web site: http://www.baylisa.org/ To get further information on the meeting location, you can also 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Thu Jul 6 16:31:05 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 19:31:05 -0400 Subject: BayLISA: Glen Kohler on Ergonomics Message-ID: <9507061631.ZM6111@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- July 20: Glen Kohler on Ergonomics Ergonomic safety depends on performance skills fully as much as environmental safety. While the literature contains many references to posture & body mechanics, this theme is woefully underdeveloped compared to furniture, chairs, and wrist rests. The Chinese martial and medical arts offer tools and methods to correct this bias. August 17: Brent Chapman on firewalls ***NOTE the date for the September meeting is the 2nd Thursday, not 3rd*** September 14: Mike Dixon, Xerox PARC (Schedule subject to revision) For further information on BayLISA, check out our (minimal) web site: http://www.baylisa.org/ To get further information on the meeting location, you can also 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Tue Aug 8 15:59:25 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 15:59:25 -0700 Subject: BayLISA: Brent Chapman on Firewalls Message-ID: <9508081559.ZM1609@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- August 17: Brent Chapman on firewalls Brent Chapman, manager of the "Firewalls" Internet mailing list and coauthor of the new book "Building Internet Firewalls" (O'Reilly & Associates; due out in mid-September) will be talking about current topics in building and managing Internet firewall security systems. August 20: PICNIC!!! Please join us at Sunnyvale Baylands Park at 1:00 PM for the annual BayLISA Picnic. Send mail to deleon at hpl.hp.com or blw at baylisa.org for more information. ***NOTE the date for the September meeting is the 2nd Thursday, not 3rd*** September 14: Mike Dixon, Xerox PARC Mike is speaking on Jupiter, a system for collaborative work that uses Lambda MOO and multicast technology to build "network places" (Schedule subject to revision) October 19: Chuck McManis, Sun, on Web Security For further information on BayLISA, check out our (minimal) web site: http://www.baylisa.org/ To get further information on the meeting location, you can also 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 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 any of the info alias listed above. From xev at morgan.com Fri Aug 11 12:37:34 1995 From: xev at morgan.com (Xev Gittler) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:37:34 -0400 Subject: August NYSA Meeting (8/15/95) Message-ID: <9508111937.AA21207@sas1-f0.fid.morgan.com> The August meeting of the New York Systems Administration group (NYSA) will be held on Tuesday, August 15 at 6:15pm. (Yes, I know that this is the third tuesday of the month. I misread the calendar when making all the arrangments. Sigh...). The meeting will be held at Morgan Stanley, 1221 6th Avenue, 3rd Floor (NOTE: This is not the same location at Morgan Stanley that previous meetings have been held - directions below). Dan Geer (bio below) will be in to do a reprise of USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce. This conference had an attendance cap on 100, and everyone attending had to do a paper. Description of the Workshop on Electronic Commerce: The First USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce will provide the major opportunity for researchers, experimenters, and proto-practitioners in this rapidly self-defining field to exchange ideas and present results of their work. This meeting will set the technical agenda for work in the area of Electronic Commerce by deriving and/or certifying the most urgent questions, discovering directions in which answers might be pursued, and revealing cross-connections that are otherwise might go unnoticed. Marketing hysteria this is not; technical direction setting it is. Workshop Format This four-day event has an unusual structure; its first two days will follow a workshop format at which attendance is by invitation, while the latter two days will be tutorial in nature and open to all. The multi-tracked seminar will feature refereed and position paper presentations, reports of works-in- progress, technological debates, and identification of hard-to-impossible problems. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, a dinner speaker, and a Keynote speaker will round out these two very full days and nights. Bio: Daniel E. Geer, Jr., Sc.D., is Chief Scientist and VP of Open Vision Technologies, with corporate headquarters in Pleasanton, California, and an east coast office in Cambridge, Mass., where Dr. Geer is located. His current assignments include Managing Director of the Strategic Security Consulting Group and leader of the Design Council. Dr. Geer has been a successful entrepreneur in network security and distributed systems management, joining OpenVision by selling his own firm to it. Previously, he served as Technical Director of the Innovation Technology Resource Center, Digital Equipment Corporation, and was Manager of Systems Development for MIT's Project Athena. At MIT, he was the responsible manager for all technical development, including X, Kerberos, and all other aspects of the Project Athena Network Services System. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and a Doctor of Science in Biostatistics from Harvard University, and was deeply involved in medical computing for fifteen years. A frequent speaker, popular teacher and member of several professional societies, he is active in USENIX, having variously chaired the University Relations Committee, served as member of the Tutorial Selection Committee, been Technical Program Chair for the San Diego, California, 1993 general conference and as champion and ultimately Conference Chair for the First Symposium on Mobile and Location Independent Computing. He began an elected term on the Board of Directors in June, 1994. At this time, he is finishing up the proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce, held in Manhattan in mid July, 1995. Directions by subway: 1221 6th Avenue is located on 6th between 48th and 49th. 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. Xev Gittler From deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Wed Sep 6 09:53:14 1995 From: deleon at hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Laura de Leon) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 09:53:14 -0700 Subject: BayLISA: Mike Dixon, on Jupiter Message-ID: <9509060953.ZM584@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> 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 holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM PST. We meet at Synopsys Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield. This meeting will also be broadcast via MBONE. Schedule -------- ***NOTE the date for the September meeting is the 2nd Thursday, not 3rd*** September 14: Mike Dixon, Xerox PARC "How to make the Web better than TV" We keep hearing about the net and the millions of new people using it every day. So why don't I ever run into any of them there? Although it's based on a new and much more flexible infrastructure, the World Wide Web has thus far preserved the organizational structure of television: some number of "information" providers broadcasting images, and a larger number of invisible users receiving those images. It doesn't have to be this way. We believe that the web's resources should be located in *network places*, enabling rich interaction with the other users of those resources. In this talk I'll describe our experiences with Jupiter, a prototype built at Xerox PARC to explore the potential uses of network places, and how we plan to build a system that could encompass all of the internet. October 19: Chuck McManis, Sun, on Web Security (Schedule subject to revision) For further information on BayLISA, check out our (minimal) web site: http://www.baylisa.org/ To get further information on the meeting location, you can also 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 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 any of the info alias listed above.