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

• Wednesday, June 3, 2009
• 6:30 PM - 8:12 PM

• Craig Buchek
• Jerry Stutte
• Jeff Muse
• Stan Reichardt
• Gary Meyer

• Secretary has printed out minutes up through May.

• No report. Following info is from last month.
• Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009
• Accounts Payable: $100.00 for booth at Small Business Expo
• Accounts Paid: $90.03 for electricity at Small Business Expo

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2009:

• Numbers will now be as end of each month.
• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.
• ANNOUNCE mailing list.
  • Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter.

• Attendance numbers, as of end of May 2009:

• NA - Not part of SLUUG.
• () - Number in parentheses is head count.
• xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded.
• ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• - - dash indicates no meeting.

• Success!
  • Vendors were happy with the turn-out.
  • Was able to cover costs.
• Most attendees were SLUUG regulars.
  • Need to get the word out better next time.
• Good turn-out, considering there were 150+ other events going on that weekend.
• Rick Clark from Canonical showed up.
  • Had missed out on emails, due to white-listing and volume.
• Thanks and congrats to Tony Lovasco for his efforts.

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: Using System Rescue by Carl Fitch
  • Really good.
• MAIN: Firefox Extensions by Mike Wilkerson
  • Good. More extensive than expected.

• Meeting canceled.

• TOPIC: AppArmor by Gary Hollingsworth
  • Good.

• TOPIC: Patent-Free Codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, FLAC, Dirac) by Tony Lovasco
  • Good, but depressing (the fact that open codecs are losing out)
  • No projector (didn't really need one)
  • No voice recorder
  • No slides, used white board (worked fine, though)

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
  • 2 new people
  • No projector
  • Helped solve user issues

• TOPIC: An in Depth Look at SystemrescueCD, A Follow Up by Carl Fitch
  • Good.

• This SIG meets at irregular intervals.

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: Vim Folding by Stan Reichardt
• MAIN: Neural Networks to Scan DNA by Bryce Meyer (via Lee)

• TOPIC: Migrating an RC script to SMF
• New location is Pujols 5 Westport Grill
  • 342 West Port Plaza
  • Maryland Heights, MO 63146

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Open Source Licensing - What You Need to Know by Craig Buchek

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• This SIG meets at irregular intervals.

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek
• MAIN: Managing Systems with Puppet by Kyle Cordes (TENTATIVE, via Craig)

• OpenGL by Jerry Stutte

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

• This SIG meets at irregular intervals.

These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.

• Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
  • TOPIC: TBD
  • Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG
• Kyle Cordes
  • Puppet
  • git and GitHub
  • Flying Boxes
• Hostirian/Primary.NET
  • Tour of their data center
  • What it takes to run a hosting data center
• Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
  • TOUR/DEMO: Digital cinema projectors
• Sammie from IBM,
  • Canceled Main: Live Demo of IBM Virtualization
• Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
  • TOPIC: AIX 6
  • TOPIC: Open Grid Computing
  • December or January
• David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
  • TOPIC: TBD
  • Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
• Jeff Logullo (formerly of Sun)
  • TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
  • TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package management system a la apt/dpkg
  • TOPIC: Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS
  • TOPIC: New release of ZFS
  • TOPIC: Belenix & other live CD's based on Open Solaris
• Scott Nesler
  • TOPIC: GIMP (follow-up from previous presentation)
  • TOPIC: PGP and GPG
• Jeff Muse
  • Software RAID
  • Solaris for Linux Admins
  • Mailman
  • Various other Solaris topics
• Stan Reichardt
  • Evaluating Security (Internet access required)
  • DEMO VIM Folding
  • TOPIC/DEMO: Google Calendar (was done at STCLUG Apr 2009)
  • TOPIC/DEMO: Using Scribus
• Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
  • TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform
  • TOPIC: CentOS Linux
• Don Ellis
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• Craig Buchek
  • git and GitHub
  • GNU grep (–count, –context, -e, –color)
  • wget and curl
  • Mac OS X topics
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
• Tony Lovasco
  • ???
• Mike Wilkerson
  • Round-Table on Joe Linux User (moderator)
• Jerry Stutte

These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for. List was posted to DISCUSS on 25 May, asking for volunteers.

• Google Wave
• BSD jail
• Unix glossary - unusual terms
  • mount point
  • white space
  • "well-behaved" app
  • zombies
  • parent process
• Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
  • regedit - edit Windows registry from Linux
• Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
• AIX current release, features, future
  • Someone from IBM corporate?
• Apple current release, features, future
  • Someone from Apple corporate?
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) or Fedora recent releases
  • Still looking for volunteer; tried Clark Smith at Red Hat
• SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
  • Someone from Novell corporate?
  • Gary Hollingsworth?
• Solaris or OpenSolaris current release, features, future
  • Someone from Sun corporate?
• HP-UX current release, features, future
  • Someone from HP corporate corporate?
  • Dave Mills?
• iSCSI
• Using git
• CPUs
  • Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
  • x86-64
  • x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
• iPhone
  • Developing for (web, native)
• iPhone competitors
  • New Google Android Phones
  • LG Dare
  • Samsung Instinct
  • Other Linux-based phones
  • LiMo versus Google Android
• Linux from scratch.
• SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
• PGP/GPG use in Email
  • Thunderbird Enigmail
  • KMail
• Google Android
  • Gateway and STL JUGs both recently had presentations
• GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop)

• A 2nd NIC has been installed on Budlight.
  • On back-end network (192.168.1.x)
    • Last octet matches octet of public IP.
• Rsnapshot has been installed on Budlight.
  • Backing up /home, /etc, /var, and /root on Bud to /rsnapshot on Budlight.
  • /rsnapshot is 100 GB volume on disk array.
• Power outage at Hostirian on 5/21.
  • Jeff Muse had to go in to revive Budlight.
  • Budlight was inaccessible about 18 hours.
    • Due to flaky NIC, which we then swapped out.
• Lee will install (and document) Webalizer on Bud, to gather web stats.
• Partitions on Bud are getting full.
  • Home and var partitions.
  • Tony looked into prices for 9 SCA hard drives - 36 GB and 72 GB.
    • $49 / drive for 72 GB drives.
    • Discussion on whether it might make more sense to replace the systems.
    • Discussion on whether it might make more sense to move storage to a separate NAS box.
    • Leaning toward NAS solution.
  • Jeff Muse brought in an EMC Clariion with 10 x 36 GB drives
    • Directly attached to Budlight via FibreChannel.
    • Still need to re-check hardware to get it running fully.
    • Will configure with RAID 5 and a hot spare.
    • Considering using an LVM partition for some users.
• Jeff installed Solaris 10 on the remaining E250.
  • Available at bock.sluug.org
  • Contact Jeff Muse (jmuse) for accounts/access.
  • Ran into mirroring issues, due to disk sizes.
  • Other E250 has been parted out and sold off.
• Omnitec offered to provide secondary DNS for us.
  • We would provide secondary DNS for them.
  • Lee and Carl would maintain DNS on both ends.
• Dark is alive again, thanks to a campus-wide power outage.
  • Anyone who needs to get anything off should do so ASAP.
  • We should retire this system.
• Wash U took our webdev box (128.252.19.27) off network Mon December 1.
  • They detected questionable IRC traffic with IP addresses in Finland & Norway.
  • We should analyze and respond.
• Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netras running Solaris 10.
  • Expect to use one like Bud and one for backup storage.
• We're planning to setup our own DNS on Ultra/Busch.
  • Make our own servers authoritative for our own domains.
  • Would allow us to publish reverse records.
    • Primary has said they can allow this.
  • Would allow us to publish SPF records.
  • We could offer dyanmic DNS services to our members.
    • On a subdomain, such as users.sluug.org
• Steve Smith (from Solaris SIG) offered a 36 GB drive to install in one of the Netras.

• Work left to do:
  • Make sure docs are up to date.
    • Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
    • Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
    • See users and mail_setup pages.
  • Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
    • Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
    • More security, for SSH and otherwise.
    • Get offsite backups working. (Mike)
    • Publish SSH host keys on web page.
    • Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike)
• Other work to do:
  • Document useradd process.
  • Better web site management tools
  • Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.

• Decided to post new (and renewing) members' names on front page of web site.

• Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
  • Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • Expires in September 2009; need to renew.
• Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
  • Expires in August 2009.
• Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Gary and Craig
  • Got STCLUG.ORG domain working.
• Jeff Muse, Lee Lammert, Gary Meyer
  • Added more hardware.
  • Brought Budlight back up after power outage.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Gary - Clean up home directory on Bud.
• Carl, Gary - Transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain.
• Craig - Update STLLINUX.ORG and SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
• Craig - Follow up w/ Kyle Cordes about presentations.
• Craig - Work on presentations.
• Gary - Point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers.
• Lee - Ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive.