From jimd at starshine.org Fri Jan 15 14:29:40 1999 From: jimd at starshine.org (Jim Dennis) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:29:40 -0800 Subject: BayLISA January Meeting: XFree86 Message-ID: <199901152229.OAA14806@canopus.starshine.org> BayLISA Monthly Meeting Announcement Large Installation System Administrators of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley Jan 21, 1999 BayLISA: Installation and Configuration of XFree86 The lovely and talented Heather Stern will talk about the installation, configuration and use XFree86, the implementation of the X Windows System used by Linux, FreeBSD and most other freenix varieties (on PCs and other platforms). She'll focus primarily on features and issues that are unique to XFree86. Heather Stern is the senior sysadmin at Ricoh Silicon Valley (a research and development subsidiary of Ricoh Office Products). The meeting starts at 7:30pm at TechMart in Santa Clara, CA, USA (This is near the Cisco campus and Great America). The BayLISA group meets on the third Thursday of every month to discuss topics of interest to systems and network administrators. Meetings are free and open to the public, funded by the support of our membership. Details can be found at: http://www.baylisa.org --- Jim Dennis (800) 938-4078 Secretary, BayLISA Board From jimd at starshine.org Thu Jan 21 15:04:24 1999 From: jimd at starshine.org (Jim Dennis) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:04:24 -0800 Subject: BayLISA January Meeting: XFree86 Message-ID: <199901212304.PAA21031@canopus.starshine.org> BayLISA Monthly Meeting Announcement Large Installation System Administrators of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley Jan 21, 1999 BayLISA: Installation and Configuration of XFree86 The lovely and talented Heather Stern will talk about the installation, configuration and use XFree86, the implementation of the X Windows System used by Linux, FreeBSD and most other freenix varieties (on PCs and other platforms). She'll focus primarily on features and issues that are unique to XFree86. Heather Stern is the senior sysadmin at Ricoh Silicon Valley (a research and development subsidiary of Ricoh Office Products). The meeting starts at 7:30pm at TechMart in Santa Clara, CA, USA (This is near the Cisco campus and Great America). The BayLISA group meets on the third Thursday of every month to discuss topics of interest to systems and network administrators. Meetings are free and open to the public, funded by the support of our membership. Details can be found at: http://www.baylisa.org --- Jim Dennis (800) 938-4078 Secretary, BayLISA Board From jimd at starshine.org Tue Mar 9 00:39:34 1999 From: jimd at starshine.org (Jim Dennis) Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:39:34 -0800 Subject: BayLISA Meeting: 3/18/1999: Sameer Parekh: Off-shore Crypto Message-ID: <199903090839.AAA03696@canopus.starshine.org> Thursday, 18 March, 1999: Sameer Parekh: Building an off-shore security company from within the US Sameer Parekh is the Founder, Chairman, and CTO of C2Net Software, Inc. Funded completely through revenue, he built the company into a multi-continent, multinational organization which could legally develop and sell full strength cryptography products worldwide. He will be telling us stories of his adventures over the past few years, including: how he built the organization in light of United States export controls and his adventures with the BXA, patents, trade secrets, and other fun licensing issues, and managing relationships with two highly political open source projects at the same time. Further details can be found at: http://www.baylisa.org -- Jim Dennis, Secretary, BayLISA blw at baylisa.org From jimd at starshine.org Thu Mar 18 07:18:42 1999 From: jimd at starshine.org (Jim Dennis) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:18:42 -0800 Subject: BayLISA Meeting: Tonight: Sameer Parekh: Off-shore Crypto Message-ID: <199903181518.HAA06919@canopus.starshine.org> Tonight, Thursday, 18 March, 1999: Sameer Parekh: Building an off-shore security company from within the US Sameer Parekh is the Founder, Chairman, and CTO of C2Net Software, Inc. Funded completely through revenue, he built the company into a multi-continent, multinational organization which could legally develop and sell full strength cryptography products worldwide. He will be telling us stories of his adventures over the past few years, including: how he built the organization in light of United States export controls and his adventures with the BXA, patents, trade secrets, and other fun licensing issues, and managing relationships with two highly political open source projects at the same time. BayLISA meets every month in Santa Clara, California to discuss topics of interest to the system administrators of large installations. Further details can be found at: http://www.baylisa.org -- Jim Dennis, Secretary, BayLISA blw at baylisa.org From laura at deer-run.com Mon Jun 14 15:39:06 1999 From: laura at deer-run.com (Laura LeHew) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:39:06 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers SANS 1999 Workshop On Securing Linux Message-ID: <4.1.19990614153835.009b3c80@deer.deer-run.com> Call for Papers SANS 1999 Workshop On Securing Linux December 15-16, 1999 San Francisco Deadline June 28, 1999 Note: Best proposal will get a free trip to San Francisco to present their paper at the conference Conference Objective Topics Who Should Submit a Proposal How to Submit a Proposal Questions Program Sponsors LINUX is winning! Where other new operating systems failed, LINUX is gaining converts among users and vendors at an increasing rate, proving that the community of computer users can create extraordinarily valuable tools. At the same time Linux systems are the targets of a huge number of successful attacks. There is debate over the causes of storm of Linux security incidents, but whether it is the operating system's immaturity or the carelessness of its users, continued growth demands that Linux users and the developer community meet the security challenges. An important initiative was launched at SANS99 in Baltimore. Linux experts from more than a dozen universities are jointly creating a hardened version of Red Hat Linux, in a project named Bastille Linux. They are fixing the default configurations and adding security features so the university administrators will feel safer distributing Linux to students. Information on the project may be found at http://www.bastille-linux.org/ . Every person who attends the Securing Linux Workshop will be given a copy for adaptation and/or redistribution. There's more that can and is being done to make Linux systems less vulnerable. If you are one of the people who have developed home-grown solutions or are one of the developers of a more secure version of Linux, please submit a proposal for the Securing Linux Workshop. If you have solutions (even partial ones) we welcome your input. The 1999 SANS San Francisco Network Security Conference is being held concurrently with the Intrusion Detection & Response Training Conference, where the nation's top network security and intrusion detection experts, people like Stephen Northcutt, Gene Schultz, Randy Marchany, Ed Skoudis, and many more will be teaching in-depth, full-day, intense courses for security practitioners. We hope that you will consider joining the Securing Linux Workshop to extend this tradition of quality by submitting a proposal for: A paper focused on practical solutions (2-10 pages) along with a presentation (25 or 50 minutes) other types of presentations (panels, demonstrations, mini-tutorials, etc. - 15-90 minutes in length) Even if you choose not to submit a short paper and presentation, we hope you will join us in San Francisco on December 11 - 16, 1999 for the workshops and courses that you feel will be helpful in meeting your professional needs. Course titles and a preliminary schedule will be posted to http://www.sans.org around July 15, 1999. Topics Any topic that you feel would provide immediate pragmatic information on Linux security to an assortment of researchers, practitioners, and observers coming to the workshop is invited. Here are a few topic groups that might give you ideas, but submissions are by no means confined to these: Hardening the Operating System Improving Practices and Procedures Risks Particular to Linux Systems Configuration Errors Silly Things Users Do Good New Tools Bad Tools New or Old Automating Installation to Reduce Risks Network-Based Intrusion Detection Host-Based Intrusion Detection Vulnerability Analysis Who Should Submit A Proposal and Why Should You Anyone who has done useful work in improving the security of Linux systems is invited to submit a proposal. The recognition afforded by being chosen to present some of your work can be a marvelous avenue of professional growth and can yield results throughout many aspects of your career. If you have a solution that you would like to share, please consider taking the time to write it up and submit a proposal to SANS. Being selected to be a part of the SANS faculty gets you more than just the rare ID&R-Securing Linux polo shirts. It also conveys an appreciation of the value you are contributing to the field. You don't have to be solving the largest problems in order to have your proposals accepted. We are looking for a wide variety of proposals and encourage you to submit one even if you are not sure of its worth. Besides the distinctive polo shirts, authors also earn substantial discounts on conference and tutorial attendance. If you are a vendor, please consider joining the SANS evening vendor presentation program. Contact daragh at sans.org for opportunities to present technical aspects of your products to SANS participants in a variety of venues. How To Submit A Proposal Send an email to laura at deer-run.com with the subject `Securing Linux Proposal'. Submissions will only be accepted in any of the following formats: PDF, Word '97, PowerPoint '97, ASCII text, or HTML. Deadline for submission is June 28, 1999. Please include the following items: Your Name Preferred email Phone Fax Employer Surface mail address The title of your proposed presentation The length (25 minute presentation with 2-5 page paper or an alternative format). At least three paragraphs containing: The specific challenges or problems the presentation will help the audience solve. The approach you used including any specific tools you created or used The evidence you have that proves that your approach works well and can be used by other people. SANS has made great strides in the past few years and is now recognized as one of the two most useful learning opportunities in the system administration, networking, and security field. This year, SANS is introducing policies that will enable us to continue to earn quality accolades: All presentations focus on actual challenges faced by system administrators, security professionals, and network managers. All presentations provide practical solutions that can be implemented immediately. All daytime presentations are free of vendor bias (except the panels in which multiple vendors are speaking together and will `correct' one another). Vendors and their representatives are welcome to present in the SANS evening program. All presenters will be given opportunities to ensure their presentation skills are the best they can be: through pre-conference training Programs, coaching-on-request for content and speaking, and/or audio tape exchange. Questions Please contact laura at deer-run.com with questions. Program Committee Chairs Alan Paller, The SANS Institute Jon Lasser, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus From djb at tc.umn.edu Wed Jun 16 17:32:57 1999 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:32:57 -0500 Subject: NO TCSA meeting June 17 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: The June 17 meeting is CANCELLED. Tentative Meeting Schedule July 15, 1999 August 19, 1999 Suggested topics that need speakers: - SANS 99 review - USENIX 99 review - Veritas NetBackup For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies Pager: 800-759-8888 djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company pin: 571-8458 djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From djb at tc.umn.edu Wed Aug 18 07:47:04 1999 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:47:04 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting August 19 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Naming and Directory Services Overview Speakers: Dave Bianchi Date/Time: August 19, 1999 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (MRNet) Synopsis: Dave will lead a discussion of Naming and Directory Services, like NIS, NIS+, DNS, and LDAP. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (MRNet office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule September 16, 1999: Backups and Recovery October 21, 1999 Directions to University Park Plaza (MRNet): The MRNet office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.mr.net/about/location.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies Pager: 800-759-8888 djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company pin: 571-8458 djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From RSVP at sage-wise.org Wed Sep 1 16:04:53 1999 From: RSVP at sage-wise.org (RSVP at sage-wise.org) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:04:53 +0100 Subject: SAGE-WISE: Systems Management - The Bigger Picture Message-ID: <5322.936227093@cs.ucl.ac.uk> ************************************************************************* LONDON UK - THURSDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER 1999 - SAGE-WISE INAUGUAL LECTURE ************************************************************************* SAGE-WISE (The System Administrators' Guild of Wales Ireland Scotland and England) is pleased to announce its Inaugural Public Lecture, "Systems Management - The Bigger Picture" on Thursday, 2nd September 1999 in the Eisai Lounge, University College London, UK. For further details of the lecture, please see http://www.sage-wise.org/lecture/ For further details about SAGE-WISE, please visit our homepage at http://www.sage-wise.org/ RSVP at sage-wise.org From djb at tc.umn.edu Mon Sep 13 08:43:38 1999 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:43:38 -0500 Subject: TCSA meeting September 16 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: Backups and Disaster Recovery Speakers: Curtis Preston, Collective Technologies Date/Time: September 16, 1999 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (MRNet) Synopsis: There are six main steps to designing any good disaster recovery plan. 1. Define (un)acceptable loss 2. Back up everything 3. Organize everything 4. Protect against disasters 5. Document what you have done 6. Test, test, test This talk will cover each of these steps. Speaker Bio: W. Curtis Preston has specialized in designing disaster recovery systems for over six years, and has designed such systems for many environments, both large and small. Curtis lectures around the world about disaster recovery, and is an accomplished author, having written articles for leading industry magazines including SysAdmin and NT Systems. He has also recently completed work on his book "UNIX Backup & Recovery," for O'Reilly & Associates, to be released September 1999. Curtis is now a Principal Consultant for Collective Technologies (CT), where a proven system for choosing a commercial backup utility has been developed, when the environment and budget allow one to be purchased. CT's system has been used to select commercial backup systems for some of the world's largest environments, including one site with a 6-terabyte Oracle database and another with a total storage capacity of 5 petabytes. Once software and hardware selection is completed, CT designs and implements a complete system based on the customer's requirements. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (MRNet office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule October 21, 1999 November 18, 1999 Directions to University Park Plaza (MRNet): The MRNet office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.mr.net/about/location.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies Pager: 800-759-8888 djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company pin: 571-8458 djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ From djb at tc.umn.edu Tue Nov 16 19:06:55 1999 From: djb at tc.umn.edu (Dave Bianchi) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:06:55 -0600 Subject: TCSA meeting November 18 Message-ID: The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Next Meeting: Topic: VNC - Virtual Network Computing Speaker: Carl Soderstrom, Minnesota DHIA Date/Time: November 18, 1999 7:00 pm Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (MRNet) Synopsis: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) - what is VNC - how do you set up VNC - how do you use VNC If time allows, we can have an informal review of the LISA99 conference highlights. If you attended LISA99, please join us in providing a view of the conference. We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (MRNet office), 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of the building. Tentative Meeting Schedule December 16, 1999 January 20, 2000 Directions to University Park Plaza (MRNet): The MRNet office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. - From the South (35W) Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the North (35W) Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the West (94/394) Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. - From the East (94) Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your right. - Parking Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in front of the building along University Ave. - Web map is at: http://www.mr.net/about/location.html For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org For any other information, please send email to: info at tcsa.org or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 -- Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies Pager: 800-759-8888 djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company pin: 571-8458 djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/