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, January 6, 2010
• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

• Lee Lammert
• Jeff Muse
• Jerry Stutte
• Craig Buchek
• Gary Meyer
• Carl Fitch

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

• Bank account has been transferred from Bank of America to Regions.
• Balance: $1375.59 as of 1/5/2010
• Expenditures for 2009-12:
  • ~$52 for Compaq fans (Carl needs to submit receipt)
• New signature cards for the Region account have been signed.
  • Lee will take them in.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of December 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 December 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.

• Extreme cold may have reduced SLUUG attendance.

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: Google Calendar by Stan Reichardt - NOT DONE DUE TO NETWORK PROBLEMS
  • Some last minute confusion on what the BASE was for this month.
  • Had also considered Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (via Carl)
• MAIN: LaTeX by Eric Xu (confirmed, via Jerry Stutte)
  • Really good. Covered everything well, at the right level.

• TOPIC: Basic OpenSolaris discussion lead by Jeff Muse

• TOPIC: Smartphone support in various groupware applications
  • Exchange, Android, BlackBerry, and Zimbra.
  • Great discussion.

• TOPIC: Linux From Scratch by Robert Hansen (confirmed via Carl)
  • Library projector was again missing video cable, but we borrowed one from Phil Bunch.
  • Good.

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
• Multiple call for help type of questions and one-on-one assistance.

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

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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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 (confirmed via Gary)

• TOPIC: Xen On OpenSolaris by Jeff Muse

• 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

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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: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (confirmed, via Carl)

• 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

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• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• St. Patrick's Day

• 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.

• 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.)
  • That that the fans were actually standard 3-wire 12volt 92x92x25mm 62cfm fans, fairly common.
  • Lee bought some fans from MicroCenter, they did not work.
  • Carl bought some ProLiant fans online, and they are too big.
  • Lee has the Bud Light system at his house/office.
  • Lee is going to try to get some of the fans online.
• Carl suggested purchasing a new server for $200.
  • Needs to be a rackmount server with rails.
  • Would probably look at a used Dell or HP.
  • Conversation was all over the board with suggestions.
  • Consensus was to try fixing Bud Light fans first.
    • If the next try doesn't work, we should then consider buying a new server.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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 made new attendance sheets for:
  • SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG
  • Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.

• Stan suggested we think about what we need to do for the new year.
  • 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.
• Gary - renewed the STCLUG.ORG domain.

• 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.
• Carl - confirm Jim Roe presentation for February 10.
• 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.