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, December 2, 2009
• 6:30 PM - 8:35 PM

• Carl Fitch
• Lee Lammert
• Jeff Muse
• Stan Reichardt
• Craig Buchek
• Gary Meyer

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

• Balance: $1379.59 as of 10/31/2009
• 2009-10 income:
  • Jim Roe $70 dues
  • You Xu $100 dues
  • Mike Knight $10 dues
• 2009-11 donated expenditures
  • Jeff Muse $100 for disk drives
  • Collected $26 from attendance at November library meetings. (Stan has it.)
• Old bank (Bank of America) was to start charging for checking account after end of year.
  • Will switch to Regions Bank in December.
  • Need to do signature cards for new checking account.

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

• Numbers are 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 November 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.

   November 2009    
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: Grub2 on Ubuntu by Gary McKee
  • Good. Could have used more detail.
  • Gary was nervous, didn't feel he was doing well, but he did fine.
• MAIN: CSS by Bill Edney
  • Last minute change to this topic at this level.
  • Very good.

• TOPIC: Implementing CIFS services in OpenSolaris by Jeff Logullo
  • Extensive discussion on differences with SMB (and Samba)
  • Very informative - answered lots of hard questions.

• TOPIC: Open discussion.
• Technical problems (aircard failure) caused scheduled presentation to be aborted
  • 2010 Launch Overview by Gary Hollingsworth

• Some last minute confusion on what the topic was for this month.
• TOPIC: Discussion of Recent GNU/Linux Distros by various members.
  • Carl Fitch - Covered OpenSuSE 11.2 on his new laptop.
  • Craig Buchek - Ubuntu 9.10 installation did not finish due to problems.
  • Josh Weaver - Ubuntu 9.10 features shown.
    • Really good presentation, especially for going up unprepared.
    • Would like to invite him to give a presentation again.
• Library projector again missing video cable.
• Cough drops and candy passed out.
• Coffee cup door prize awarded to Mark Sims.

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
  • TOPIC: Linux Package Management by Stan Reichardt
  • TOPIC: Wajig by Carl Fitch
  • First presentation led into second quite well. Lots of participation.

• HIATUS - No Meeting During November or December 2009 due to conflicts and holidays.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

   December 2009    
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: Selling Free Software by Jim Roes (confirmed, via Carl)
• MAIN: LaTeX by Eric Xu (confirmed, via Jerry Stutte)

• TOPIC: Xen on OpenSolaris by Jeff Muse (tentative)
• TOPIC: Basic OpenSolaris discussion lead by Jeff Muse (alternate)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Linux From Scratch by Robert Hansen (confirmed via Carl)

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

• HIATUS - No Meeting During November or December 2009 due to conflicts and holidays.

    January 2010    
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• BASE: Hands-On Updating the SLUUG Google Calendar by Stan Reichardt
• MAIN: Mac OS X Snow Leopard by Scott Granneman (tentative)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined by Jeff Muse (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Using Linux with Digital Radio by Bill Zimmerly (via Jerry Stutte)
  • Note that January issue of Linux Journal cover story is on Amateur Radio and Linux.

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

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
• Could be VM stuff or redmine or whatever

   February 2010    
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• Balloting for SLUUG officers.
• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• Balloting for SLUUG officers.
• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Balloting for SLUUG officers.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Balloting for SLUUG officers.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Balloting for SLUUG officers.
• TOPIC: OpenGL - Part Two by Jerry Stutte (tentative)

• Balloting for SLUUG officers.
• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

• Balloting for SLUUG officers.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
• Could be VMstuff or redmine or whatever

     March 2010     
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• St. Patrick's Day
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• Gary will add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
• Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
• Craig will renew STLLINUX.ORG and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
• Gary will renew the STCLUG.ORG domain - it will expire December 17.

• Stan has created resources to keep track of our systems and what's running on them.
• Bud Light is currently offline, due to fan failure. (Failure was actually in Bud, but moved.)
  • Found that fans are actually standard 3-wire 12volt 92x92x25mm 62cfm fans, fairly common.
  • Carl will buy some from Gateway tomorrow.
  • Otherwise Carl will order them online from Craig's research, posted to STEERCOM.
• Jeff has purchased 20 x 72GB FC replacement drives on Ebay and put them in Bud Light RAID 5 array.
• Jeff has built script to do service checks, ping tests, etc.
  • In /usr/local/bin/service_test.sh – just troubleshooting scripts, particular to each machine's setup.
• Work left to do:
  • Make sure docs are up to date.
    • 2008-01 Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
    • 2008-01 Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
    • 2008-01 See users and mail_setup pages.
  • Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
    • 2008-01 Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
    • 2008-03 More security, for SSH and otherwise.
    • 2008-01 Get offsite backups working. (Mike Knight)
    • 2008-01 Publish SSH host keys on web page.
    • 2008-03 Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike Knight)
• Other work to do:
  • 2008-08 Document useradd process.
  • 2008-03 Better web site management tools
  • 2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & use same UIDs across all production machines.

• Annual Report for 2009 is on file.
  • Filed documents available here.
• REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS:
  • $15.00 If filed on or before 8/31
  • $20.00 If filed after 8/31
  • Corporation will be administratively dissolved if report is not filed by November 30th.
• We still need to change the registered agent for surface mail delivery.
  • Craig is a registered agent, per Missouri state, and volunteered to serve as our group's agent.
    • Someone just needs to file the right paperwork.
    • We thought we had filled out the paperwork; apparently it's been lost or misplaced.

• Jerry Stutte has written an app to manage membership.
  • Working with Lee Lammert.
  • Need to deploy to bud.
  • Lists membership levels and names.
  • Will be able to show expiration dates of memberships and send out emails.
  • Need to add timestamps for changes
  • Searchable renewal method
  • Drop down list for State
  • Auto ID number generation
• Membership application now running on BUD. When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation.
• During October:
  • At SLUUG meeting we explained St. Louis County Library (SLCL) policy change on room payments.
  • Stan R. handed out all available Annual Supporting Membership forms during SLUUG meeting.
  • Sales pitch for Supporting Memberships was to not throw form away, take it home, look at it.
• Need more membership forms printed.
  • Stan will send another message to STEERCOM asking for people to print out copies.

• Reservations of St. Louis County Library (SLCL) rooms for calendar year 2010 made on 3 October.
  • Reserved Indian Trails - Phil Bunch
  • Reserved Prairie Commons - Stan Reichardt
  • Reserved Thornhill - Carl Fitch
• Process has changed. Limited to 6 months. Next round may be first Saturday in April.
• Reserving a meeting room now done on line - http://www.slcl.org/services/reserve.htm
• Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.
• We can still collect donations for future meetings.
• Completed in October:
  • Paid Indian Trails - Carl Fitch
  • Paid Prairie Commons - Carl Fitch and Stan Reichardt
  • Paid Thornhill - Phil Bunch
• Come April or May we will have to again schedule and pay withing 14 days to reserve rooms for next six months.
  • To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.

• Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
• Gary Meyer is Captain.
• Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL.

• Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
• Channel is named #sluug.
• Typically 7 people on at times.
• Would like to have someone give a tutorial on using IRC, and show off our channel.
• Craig suggested that we include the IRC channel in Steering Committee meetings.
  • Will be hard to figure out the best way to get the online folks to participate.
• Stan will put the IRC channel info up on the web site.
• Stan will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages.

• Stan would like us to clean up the SYSADMIN mailing list, to eliminate people who have not been active for the past year.
  • We decided to send a message out to the list, asking who wants to stay on the list. Then we can remove folks that are not staying active.

• Stan suggested we think about we need to do for the new year.
  • Stan needs to make new attendance sheets.
  • We need to change root passwords.
• Craig has been adding some packages to his server; would be willing to add them to SLUUG servers.
  • fail2ban - temporarily ban IPs that have too many SSH failures (unanimous agreement)
  • fcheck - file integrity checker - emails files that changed since last time run
  • logcheck - email anomalous log entries
  • munin - monitoring of system details
  • awstats - web stats
• Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.

• Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Jeff - upgraded kernels on our Linux systems, broke system fan in the process
• Jerry - lots of work on membership display program

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Gary - add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
• Gary - renew the STCLUG.ORG domain - it will expire December 17.
• Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site.
• Craig - contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
• Craig - renew STLLINUX.ORG, and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
• Craig - print out minutes from June-December.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.