NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• June 6, 2007
• 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

• Carl Fitch
• Lee Lammert
• Craig Buchek
• Barry Morrison
• John Hodge
• Stan Reichardt
• Jeff Urbanec

• Secretary needs to catch up with things, especially printing out minutes.

• As of: 4/30/07
• Bank balance: $ 1275.59
• Pending deposits: none
• Pending expenses:
  • Pens - ordered, should be here soon
• Final bill from Wash U has not been received.
  • Gary provided good address to forward correspondence.
• Need receipts for expense reimbursements.
  • Gary - domain registration
  • Carl - state registration

• Book sales - none for previous month

• Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers.
  • using URL as in http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf,
  • or http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on.
• Attendance for May 2007:
  • May 1 - 1st LDAP: 7
  • May 2 - Steercom: 5
  • May 9 - SLUUG: missing attendance sheet
  • May 16 - 2nd LDAP: 5
  • May 17 - STLLUG: missing attendance sheet
  • May 22 - Solaris: 15
  • May 22 - HZWLUG: missing attendance sheet
  • May 24 - STCLUG: missing attendance sheet
  • May 30 - Security: 9

• Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):

• TOPIC: How To Create a UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD) by Carl Fitch
  • This was an extended topic -- there was no separate tutorial.
  • Reprise of last month's STCLUG presentation.
  • Included discussion of Windows BartPE and Linux both bootable from CD
  • People could follow along if they brought their own Windows XP installation disc.
    • Could use an OEM recovery disc or Windows Server 2003.
  • Good. A bit of hands on.

• TOPIC: Ubuntu GNU/Linux by Jay Truesdale
  • Went quickly. Showed off features of latest version of Ubuntu.
  • Covered wireless support in-depth.
• Craig and Stan were out of town. Carl ran the meeting.

• TOPIC: Virtualizing Solaris: The Big Rules for Zones, Xen, LDOMs and VMware by Bob Neatherton
  • Excellent - a whole day's presentation condensed into 3 hours.
  • Sun's virtual machine specialist gave the presentation.
• Nobody seemed to be updating http://solaris.sluug.org web page.
  • Jeff Logullo was maintaining a new web page
  • Stan R. put HTML page at our Solaris SIG URL to now redirect to Jeff L.'s new URL
  • New URL is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/stl-osug/
  • References to our http://solaris.sluug.org/ URL are automatically redirected.

• Stan R. was not in town for this meeting. Carl ran the meeting.
• Covered wireless network config and troubleshooting.
• The HZWLUG meetings thru November are now listed on www.stlcalendar.com
• Experimenting with askarchy.com listing. Only submitted May meeting so far.

• TOPIC: Round-table discussion on various topics.
  • Plenty of contributions from the crowd.

• TOPIC: Snort and Base by Clarence Johnson
  • Excellent. Will cover in more detail next month.
• Meeting rescheduled on short notice from May 23rd

• Base: Public Key Authentication in SSH by Barry Morrison
• Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell (via Lee)
  • People can follow along if they bring their own laptop and 1 GB USB memory stick.

• TOPIC: TBD

• Meeting date tentative - regular Prairie Commons Branch room not available on 26th
  • Still trying to find a location for the regular date.
• TOPIC: Newbie topics.

• TOPIC: Physical Computing with Linux by Jason Burke (confirmed)

• TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE
• by Chris Byrd, CISSP

• TOPIC: TBD
• Stan R. updated STCLUG Web site.

• Base: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge
• Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Craig)

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek

• TOPIC: Newbie topics

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• Base: TBD
• Main: one of the following topics by John Hodge
  • Micro-Partitioning
  • VIO - virtual I/O - sharing network devices on POWER hardware
  • Storage Virtualization on AIX
  • HACMP - High Availability on AIX

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig)

• DNA, Genes, Viruses, Bioinformatics by Robert Citek
• Something by Scott Granneman
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
• AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)

• Recognition of extended membership levels has not yet been done.
• Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
• No effort means no new sponsors.

• Dark keeps crashing.
  • Waiting for it to not come back up.
  • Work on new servers to replace AIX boxes is moving along rapidly.
• Security issues
  • Had some accounts compromised.

• Carl and Craig met at Lee's on May 9 to work on migration.
  • Accomplished quite a bit.
    • Got SASL and TLS added to Postfix configuration.
    • Integrated SpamAssassin into Postfix via MailScanner.
      • Grabbed most of the config from Dark.
    • Upgraded version of DokuWiki.
• Craig rebuilt Bud on May 30.
  • Built per documentation on the wiki.
  • Took about 2 hours on-site to build.
    • Should only have taken 1 hour, but had some incorrect documentation.
  • Took about 1-2 days to get it back to same shape it was before.
• Carl, Craig, Jeff Muse, Stan, and Lee meeting on June 13 to do more work.
  • Make sure Mailman is working.
  • Make sure mailing lists get archived to web.
  • Make offsite backups work.
    • Scheduled deletion of older backups.
  • Move all SSL cert creation to one place in the docs.
  • Apache for users.sluug.org.
    • Will use this to migrate users from Michelob to Budlight.
  • Install and configure Drupal for multiple web sites.
    • Integrate Drupal module for Mailman.

• Stan R. and Ted P.
• No routine presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration.
• No migration means no real progress this month.

• none

• It was mentioned that St. Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) membership was nearly all SLUUG members.
• Someone asked if perhaps we should give SLACC status as a SLUUG Special Interest Group (SIG).
• There was little discussion, and agreement that it would make sense to have SLACC as a SIG.
  • It would give SLUUG an official meeting for bringing machines in to install/configure Linux.
• Craig to make URL http://slacc.sluug.org
• Stan to build web page, add links on SLUUG site, and take attendance at SLACC meetings.
• Craig suggested that the board should hold an official vote, and SLACC should also vote on the issue.

• The sluug.org domain expires in July.
• Gary Meyer has put on his credit card.
  • But Whois still shows it expiring on July 10, 2007.

• See SLUUG Info on file with State of Missouri.
• Due by 31 August, Carl saved us $5 last year by filing early.
• Should we change the "registered agent" shown on the forms?
  • YES: Change to "Stan Reichardt" @ same address as our "corporate headquarters".
  • Should help us receive official hard-copy forms from the state.

• We have 3 handouts for our meetings, each available at the URLs listed below.
  • SLUUG general information handout (front is portrait and back is landscape):
    • http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070418.pdf (portrait page)
    • http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070418.pdf (landscape page)
    • http://www.sluug.org/sluuginfo.pdf (combined)
  • Hazelwood LUG GNU/Linux for Beginners:
    • http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf
  • St. Louis Security Group Password Guidelines for Beginners:
    • http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf
• Need more copies of Hazelwood and Security brochures.
  • Carl will print 200 copies of each.

• Craig: Ping Robert Citek and Scott Granneman about presentations.
• Craig: Follow up w/ Tom Bowman of TeamCentric Technologies on Lotus Notes presentation + another.
• Craig: Follow up w/ Scott Nesler on GIMP presentation.
• Craig: Set up virtual host to test www.sluug.org site on new server.
• Craig: Print out previous minutes.
• Craig: Write up info on membership levels.
• Gary: Get Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes from Craig, install Solaris, and install them at Primary.
• Gary: Verify that domain has been renewed in Whois.
• Carl: Print 200 copies each of Hazelwood and Security brochures.