From toni Mon Jan 13 14:29:34 1997 From: toni (Toni Veglia) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:29:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: Request for Proposals for SAGE Booklets Message-ID: <199701132229.OAA12706@usenix.ORG> Requests for Proposals SAGE is seeking proposals from authors for four separate booklets as part of its "Short Topics in System Administration" series. The four booklets, described in more detail below, encompass legal issues, education, hiring, and site audits. These new booklets will complement the following existing booklets in the SAGE series: 1. Job Descriptions for System Administrators 2. A Guide for Developing Computing Policy Documents 3. Systems Security: A Management Perspective (scheduled completion Dec 96) Legal Traps and Pitfalls for System Administrators -------------------------------------------------- This document will provide an overview of some known (as of the date of publication) legal problem areas that directly affect system administrators. It should serve both to raise the level of caution on the part of system administrators and managers and to spur further discussion between the legal community and the system administration community. This document will not be a comprehensive treatment of the law in any particular jurisdiction. Some topics to be addressed include: Censorship Fighting computer crime without being caught by "rights" laws in reverse Privacy issues Ownership of data files, email, etc., on the machine and network Copyright issues Hiring and firing Responsibility to adhere to the code of ethics Relative duty owed to users and employers Educating and Training System Administrators -------------------------------------------- This document will be a guide for educators developing curricula, managers developing staff training, and system administrators interested in furthering their own education. The booklet should cover both technical and nontechnical areas of education. This document is not intended to be a step-by-step manual for implementation of educational programs in general, nor is it expected to document an educational certification process. It should be a guide regarding skill requirements specific to system administration. Emphasis should be on imparting actual knowledge and problem-solving skills in practical environments. Some topics that should be addressed are: Fundamental prerequisites Mandatory and elective subject lists to satisfy the equivalent of a bachelors degree in system administration Paths and flow of basic education and specializations Course suggestions, including objectives, descriptions, and topic lists Methodologies for building problem-solving skills Hands-on approaches Considerations in building a training lab Accompanying textbooks How to teach or foster the requisite nontechnical skills Case studies of currently used models and their successes and failures: both commercial and education industries Continuing education Hiring Policies and Practices and Interview Strategies -------------------------------------------- This document will serve as a guide for system administrators, managers, and human resources personnel regarding the need for developing good interviewing practices to prevent poor hiring decisions and the trade-offs between seeking inexperienced and experienced administrators. It is meant to complement the existing SAGE booklet, Job Descriptions for System Administators. This document is not intended to be a manual for conducting interviews, but rather an issues-oriented guide for hiring decisions and the interview process. Some topics that should be addressed are: Trade-offs between low-cost, inexperienced people and high-cost experience Training model trade-offs: "growing your own" vs. hiring fully trained Internal vs. external hiring Effective job advertising Selecting and preparing an interviewing team Interviewing strategies Assessing actual knowledge and competence Assessing ethical and interpersonal compatibility Expected and typical benefits to candidates during the hiring process What is expected of a candidate What is expected of a new employer What is expected of a new hire Common pitfalls and their risks Fair and ethical practices Site Audits ----------- This document will serve as a guide for system administrators regarding the need for an initial and a periodic audit of system and network status. This document is not intended to be a checklist, but should cover reasons and areas to be investigated. Some topics that should be addressed include: Existence of a complete and viable set of policy documents Security model in place and effectiveness of implementing policy Hardware inventory and configuration documentation Licensed software control procedures Documented procedures for policy-based tasks such as backups and account management Accurate network diagram Effective problem/job/request tracking system Maintenance agreements Case studies or illustrative anecdotes are encouraged. Each booklet should be 20-50 pages in length. The author(s) will be compensated. Proposals should contain names, curriculum vitaes, and contact information for all authors, a representative writing sample not to exceed 500 words, a draft outline for the booklet, and an estimate of how long it will take to deliver the manuscript. Proposals should be in either text, html, or a URL reference. The author will not be expected to copyedit, design, typeset, or print the booklet. An agreement regarding copyright and compensation will be executed with USENIX upon approval and acceptance of a proposal by the SAGE Board of Directors. Please address all inquiries and proposals on or before February 1, 1997 to the USENIX Executive Director, Ellie Young . From michael at protease.bchs.uh.edu Thu Feb 13 09:47:00 1997 From: michael at protease.bchs.uh.edu (Michael Rice) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:47:00 -0600 (CST) Subject: Meeting reminder Message-ID: The #HASH -- Houston Area Sysadmin HASH will be holding it's 4th ever meeting at the Ale House on W. Alabama in Houston on Thursday, Februrary 13th at 7pm. (That's TONIGHT!) We're hoping for another technical session in March, stay tuned to your mailing lists for more details. Visit the web page at http://www.bchs.uh.edu/hash/ for almost all of the information. Just this month we've added one entry in the 'Job Opportunities' area of our web site, more to follow. -- Michael A. Rice mrice at uh.edu University of Houston 713-743-8355 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intellegent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." From eer2 at cornell.edu Tue Mar 25 18:38:18 1997 From: eer2 at cornell.edu (Ethan Rafferty) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:38:18 -0500 Subject: NFS server research project Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970325213817.006fa808@postoffice3.mail.cornell.edu> Hello, I am an MBA student at Cornell's Johnson School of Management conducting research on NFS servers. My research team would like to send out a conjoint analysis tool (which would take 15 minutes to complete) to potential and actual consumers of NFS servers. The purpose of the study is to analyze consumers' tradeoffs between attributes of the product (such as performance, storage capacity, availability, support of multiple client types, and method of purchase) in order to determine optimal configurations. I would like to discuss with you your suggestions on contacting appropriate individuals, such as systems administrators, to participate in this study. To be more specific, I am seeking lists of contact information for such individuals. Please let me know your suggestions regarding directions in which to proceed. Thanks, Ethan Rafferty (607) 256-1201 eer2 at cornell.edu From eer2 at cornell.edu Tue Apr 8 07:25:54 1997 From: eer2 at cornell.edu (Ethan Rafferty) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 10:25:54 -0400 Subject: NFS research project -- Please complete soon Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970408102408.006da390@postoffice3.mail.cornell.edu> Hello, On the following web site resides the research instrument for the NFS server research project. It is a simple form which should take 15 or 20 minutes to complete. It's kind of fun: you get to analyze different attributes of an NFS server and make trade-offs between them. 1. Please forward this e-mail right away to anyone you know of who may be interested in participating in the research project. 2. Please complete and submit the form on the web site below by Friday, April 11. This study is being performed by MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management in order to analyze the market for NFS service in general and for specialized NFS server appliances in particular. The submission of the form is anonymous unless you choose to fill out the fields asking who you are. Thank you for your participation! Ethan Rafferty eer2 at cornell.edu From ple at synopsys.com Wed Jun 18 13:49:59 1997 From: ple at synopsys.com (Paul Evans) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:49:59 -0700 Subject: nominations for 1997 SAGE Achievement Award Message-ID: <199706182049.NAA09964@intrepid.synopsys.com> SAGE is soliciting nominations for its fifth annual Achievement Award, to be presented this October in San Diego at the SAGE/USENIX LISA '97 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. Past recipients of the award are: Rob Kolstad and Max Vasilatos in 1993, for their role in organizing the early LISA conferences, and general contributions to the system administration community. Larry Wall in 1994, for his work on Perl and other system administration tools. Evi Nemeth in 1995, for her contributions to the system administration and student community. Elizabeth Zwicky in 1996, for her role in the founding of SAGE. 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 by Friday, 1 August 1997. Paul Evans Pat Wilson SAGE Board of Directors From dgk at research.att.com Wed Jul 16 14:37:42 1997 From: dgk at research.att.com (David Korn) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:37:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: System Administration Survey Message-ID: <199707162137.RAA15286@raptor.research.att.com> If you are a system administrator with experience with bot UNIX systems and Windows systems, I need your help. I am giving a keynote at the USENIX Large Scale System Administration of Windows NT Workshop in August and need some input from administrators. I have prepared a survey which contanis questions about administration of UNIX verses Windows NT, and I would appreciate it if you could take a few moments to fill it out. The survey can be found at: http://www.research.att.com/~dgk/survey Thanks for your cooperation. If I get a significant number of respondants, I will present the results at this conference. David Korn research!dgk dgk at research.att.com From npm at netcom.com Sun Aug 17 20:04:23 1997 From: npm at netcom.com (Nancy Milligan (on Crunchy)) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 20:04:23 -0700 Subject: BL: Solaris 2.6 is coming Message-ID: <199708180304.UAA00266@netcom.com> Solaris 2.6 is coming! It's been quite some while since a major Solaris version has been released and 2.6 is expected to be out this fall. Representatives from Sun will be here this month giving us the scoop on what to expect in this new OS release. WHO/WHAT: Beach LISA WHERE: Auditorium of the Design Center at Qualcomm. WHEN: Tuesday, August 19, 1997 at 7:00 p.m. This month's Beach LISA, the San Diego System Administrator's Guild, is at 7:00 pm on August 19th (third Tuesday) at the Qualcomm auditorium in the Design Center building. Maps and meeting announcements can be seen at http://beachlisa.org or at the bottom of this message. DIRECTIONS to Qualcomm =========================================================================== These are directions to Building "Q", the Design Center Building. The meeting is in the auditorium which is directly behind the lobby and the elevators. >From Downtown/La Jolla I-5 North Sorrento Valley Road Exit - (Turn Left, then Turn Right after RR tracks) (Now on Sorrento Valley Road, go under 805, go up hill) Lusk Blvd - Turn Left. Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. >From El Cajon/Kearney Mesa I-805 North Mira Mesa Rd Exit - Turn Right (East) Lusk Blvd - Turn Left Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. >From North County Coastal I-5 South to I-805 South Sorrento Valley Road Exit - Turn Left (East) (Now on Sorrento Valley Road, go under 805, go up hill) Lusk Blvd - Turn Left. Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. >From North County Inland I-15 South Mira Mesa Rd Exit - Turn Left (West) (Drive down Mira Mesa Rd for about 7-8 miles) Lusk Blvd - Turn Right. Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. From diane Thu Aug 28 11:09:46 1997 From: diane (Diane DeMartini) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RFP to Chair LISA'98 Message-ID: <199708281809.LAA06055@usenix.ORG> Request for Proposals to Chair the 12th Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98) The USENIX Association and its Special Technical Group SAGE, the System Administrators Guild, are seeking proposals from people interested in chairing the Twelfth LISA conference, to be held December 6-11, 1998 in Boston, MA. We are seeking an energetic person with the following qualifications: * Knowledge of timely and appropriate topics in the field * Ability to put together a program committee which will find qualified speakers to submit papers, as well as identifying keynote and panel participants * Experience and an excellent reputation in the field of system administration * Excellent administrative and planning skills * Good public speaking skills * Attendance at previous LISA conferences (and involvement in a previous program committee is helpful). * Time to invest to insure success of the conference Proposals should be brief (1 page) and should include the following: *Statement of Purpose (e.g., why have another one, how to improve it) *Form of submissions (e.g., abstracts, extended abstracts and/or full papers?) *Format (e.g., 3 days of technical sessions, panel sessions, etc.) *List of topics to be addressed (as in the call for papers) *Any special features, such as plans for improving the quality and number of the papers, ideas for theme/focus *List of potential program committee members and/or a co-chair (Note that while most USENIX conferences have had an individual program chair, proposals requesting a co-chair are welcome.) *Short bio/references Proposal due date: October 1, 1997 The program chair is not responsible for the conference's Invited Talks Track, Tutorials, BOFs, vendor exhibition, and conference site selection/ logistics. The chair is expected to work closely with the staff and volunteers (e.g., coordinators for the tutorial and invited talks program). Please address all inquiries and proposals to the Association's Executive Director, Ellie Young . Proposals will be evaluated and selection of a chair made by a subcommittee composed of USENIX and SAGE board members. From npm at netcom.com Sun Sep 14 12:58:21 1997 From: npm at netcom.com (npm at netcom.com) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 12:58:21 -0700 Subject: Beach Lisa on Tuesday Message-ID: <199709141958.MAA00421@netcom10.netcom.com> WHO: Beach LISA (San Diego System Administrators) WHAT: NFS and Backups WHERE: Qualcomm, Design Center Auditorium WHEN: Tuesday, 9/16/1997 WHY: Because we can. Beach LISA is having a meeting on Tuesday, September 16th at 7:00 p.m. at Qualcomm, the Design Center on Lusk, in the auditorium. The meeting will focus this month on NFS and Backups. There will be an informal panel type of discussion and opportunity for questions. These are directions to Building "Q", the Design Center Building. The meeting is in the auditorium which is directly behind the lobby and the elevators. P.S. I suffered a major disk catastrophe on the machine where I keep my Beach LISA emailing list and I'm still trying to recover stuff. If you know of someone who is on the emailing list and isn't getting meeting annoucements please tell them to sign up to the list again by going to the WWW page at: http://www.beachlisa.org or directly to: http://nmcs.com/mycgibin/beachlisa.cgi. >From Downtown/La Jolla I-5 North Sorrento Valley Road Exit - (Turn Left, then Turn Right after RR tracks) (Now on Sorrento Valley Road, go under 805, go up hill) Lusk Blvd - Turn Left. Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. >From El Cajon/Kearney Mesa I-805 North Mira Mesa Rd Exit - Turn Right (East) Lusk Blvd - Turn Left Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. >From North County Coastal I-5 South to I-805 South Sorrento Valley Road Exit - Turn Left (East) (Now on Sorrento Valley Road, go under 805, go up hill) Lusk Blvd - Turn Left. Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. >From North County Inland I-15 South Mira Mesa Rd Exit - Turn Left (West) (Drive down Mira Mesa Rd for about 7-8 miles) Lusk Blvd - Turn Right. Turn Right into parking lot, after the second stoplight on Lusk. From npm at netcom.com Mon Oct 20 08:06:25 1997 From: npm at netcom.com (npm at netcom.com) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Beach LISA 10/21/97 Message-ID: <199710201506.IAA06133@netcom10.netcom.com> Beach LISA is having a meeting on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. (tomorrow) at Qualcomm, the Design Center on Lusk, in the auditorium. The meeting is about programming and debugging in the Shell, a useful skill for anyone, especially system administrators. See the WWW page at http://www.beachlisa.org for directions to Qualcomm. Nancy Milligan From npm at netcom.com Mon Oct 20 08:06:10 1997 From: npm at netcom.com (npm at netcom.com) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Beach LISA 10/21/97 Message-ID: <199710201506.IAA06119@netcom10.netcom.com> Beach LISA is having a meeting on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. (tomorrow) at Qualcomm, the Design Center on Lusk, in the auditorium. The meeting is about programming and debugging in the Shell, a useful skill for anyone, especially system administrators. See the WWW page at http://www.beachlisa.org for directions to Qualcomm. Nancy Milligan From amos at utdallas.edu Mon Oct 20 14:35:44 1997 From: amos at utdallas.edu (Amos A Gouaux) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:35:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: DFWSAGE Meeting on Oct 21 Message-ID: The October Meeting of DFWSAGE is tomorrow (21st) at 7:00PM. Since it was one of the first topics requested, we thought we'd do a presentation on the IMAP/IMSP/ACAP mail access protocols. We at UTD, like an increasingly number of sites, have begun the transition to IMAP based e-mail. We'll cover a brief background on IMAP, our e-mail set up, the motivation for moving towards IMAP, and our progress so far. Please see http://www.utdallas.edu/orgs/dfwsage/ for details. amos From npm at netcom.com Mon Nov 10 12:54:07 1997 From: npm at netcom.com (npm at netcom.com) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:54:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Beach LISA 11/18/1997 Message-ID: <199711102054.MAA24586@netcom10.netcom.com> Subject: Beach LISA 10/21/97 The Beach LISA meeting for November 18 will be a Happy Hour! The Happy Hour will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Coast Cafe in the big pink Embassy Suites hotel on La Jolla Village Drive, just across the street from UTC. You can park in the large pink parking garage. The Coast Cafe is inside the hotel, behind the lobby past the feral Koi ponds. (Whatever you do, don't put your hand in the water, the feral Koi will gum you to death). Or, if you want to car-pool over to the Happy Hour location meet at Qualcomm, in the lobby between 6:45 and 7:15. Another item, please be thinking about what you want from Beach LISA in terms of meetings, events or other areas. I'm going to be preparing a member survey which will probably be online at the WWW site. I'll be sending out email when that is ready. See the WWW page at http://www.beachlisa.org for directions to Qualcomm. Summary for Busy People: Who: Beach LISA (The San Diego SAGE group) What: Happy Hour Where: Coast Cafe Bar, Embassy Suites When: Third Tuesday, 11/18/1997 at 7:30 p.m. From dfwsage-exec at utdallas.edu Mon Nov 17 14:34:18 1997 From: dfwsage-exec at utdallas.edu (dfwsage-exec at utdallas.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:34:18 -0600 (CST) Subject: DFWSAGE Meeting Update Message-ID: <199711172234.QAA22722@seti.utdallas.edu> Hello again DFWSAGE-ers, DFWSAGE is pleased to announce a suprise guest speaker. ATM vs. Switched Ethernet Micheal Bolla Reginal Systems Engineer Cisco Systems Tuesday, November 18, 1997 7:00pm - 9:00pm University of Texas at Dallas McDermott Library Room : MC3.224 (* Please note, this is a room and building change *) Directions and maps are located at the DFWSAGE web page. http://www.utdallas.edu/orgs/dfwsage Since this is short notice, please try to inform any and all of those that might be interesed in this topic. From dfwsage-owner at utdallas.edu Wed Dec 3 20:06:13 1997 From: dfwsage-owner at utdallas.edu (dfwsage-owner at utdallas.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:06:13 -0600 (CST) Subject: DFWSAGE Meeting on 12-16-97 Message-ID: <199712040406.WAA05634@velcro.utdallas.edu> The following topic will be presented at the next DFWSAGE meeting: Boost SMTP Server Security and Efficiency with Qmail Bill Weinman Tuesday, December 16, 1997 7:00pm - 9:00pm University of Texas at Dallas McDermott Library Room MC3.224 (* remember this is a new location *) Directions and maps are located at the DFWSAGE page: http://www.utdallas.edu/orgs/dfwsage Hope to see y'all there!