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, May 5, 2010
• 7:00 PM - 7:55

Lee Lammert

Noah Lance

Gary Meyer

Stan Reichardt

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June 2009.

• Balance: $1375.59 as of 2/28/2010
• Expenses: $95.46 for SBE Electric.
• Expenses: $10 for Secretary of State
• Expenses: $100 for SBE Booth

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of April 2010:

• Numbers 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.

*-*-* We need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!

• Attendance numbers, as of end of April 2010:

• 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.

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

• Back to back meeting
• BASE: IRC & SLUUG - Jerry Stutte
  • Started a little late, went a little long.
• MAIN: Counterfeit Technology and Open Source Solutions - Tony Zafiropoulos
  • Extremely interesting chemical application of dual photon absorbtion spectrum tags.

• Back to back meeting
• TOPIC: How to teach Linux to newbies - Tony Zafiropoulos
• Teaching expriences at ATT

• TOPIC: Alternate topic - service mangement facility - Jeff Muse

• TOPIC: Installing OpenSuSE in Virtual Machines by Don Ellis
• Very Good meeting. Went very well despite hardware issues. ~10 folks

• TOPIC: Linux on Windows 7 by Noah Lance
• Interesting extra issues (difficulties).

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

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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

• BASE: Creating a favicon for your website - Tony Zafiropoulos
• MAIN: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling
• Need to veriy.

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Backing up a Windows machine to Linux - Lee Lammert

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

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: Current State of VMware - Matt Skipton (Tentative) per Lee Lammert.

• 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.

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• 2010-05 Previous room reservations at Thornhill library were NOT paid, so they expired.

• Back to back meeting.
• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Back to back meeting.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
• 2010-05 Previous room reservations at Indian Trails library were NOT paid, so they expired.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• 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.
• To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.
• 2010-04 Stan R. has put in requests for HZWLUG, SLACC, & STLlug from Aug thru Dec.
  • Stan R. will front payment for HZWLUG.
  • Payments need be made before 21 April (2 wks)(if Library grants dates).
  • Gary has reservation codes to cancel STLlug.
    • - -Gary in favor of moving to IT Enterprises
    • - -Deadline to give Library the payment MAY be the day of the "test mtng of StLopenSolaris".
  • Phil has info for SLACC but we aren't sure of Phil's availability.
• 2010-05 Stan R. paid for HZWLUG Library rooms July through December 2010.
  • Other library rooms were NOT paid, so reservations for SLACC and STLlug have expired.
  • We will renew reservations for both SLACC and STLLUG.
  • Money can be refunded if we switch STLLUG meetings to other site.

• 2009-12 Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline.
• 2009-12 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
• 2009-12 Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
• 2010-02 Craig wondered if we could put sudo back on Bud.
  • Configure it to require root password instead of user's own password.
  • Will follow up on SYSADMIN list.
• 2010-02 Craig wondered if we could start applying the patches pending for Bud.
  • There are a lot of patches pending now, including kernel and security fixes.
  • We have some concern with DNS patches, but Craig has applied them on his systems without issues.
  • Will follow up on SYSADMIN list.
• 2010-02 Noah has a server we can use.
  • IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
  • Name: Golden Wheat
  • Craig will get with Noah to install the system.
• 2010-03 Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM.
• 2010-03 Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0
• 2010-04 New server [Debian] installed from Noah - thanks!
• 2010-04 Noah has two more Dell 2850s for installation at IT Enterprises for the OS lab, to be supported by SLUUG. Noah to contact them and confirm installation - this will be a good indication of the support level they wish to have for an ongoing relationship.
• 2010-04 New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative]
  • Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
• 2010-05
  • PrimaryNet problem with possible rouge IRC activity on system we later identified as Golden Wheat.
  • Stan R. added some info on Golden Wheat to resources.txt file.
  • Taking Golden Wheat offline…
  • Mike Knight pointed out that Bud is not being backed up since BudLight went down.
  • Jeff Muse has started rsnapshots backing up Bud to Bock.
  • Noah willing to diagram our assets – later.
  • Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box.

• 2009-09 Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
• 2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain.
• 2009-10 Captain is AWOL. Carl will be available in November or later.
• 2009-11 Captain was AWOL.
• 2009-12 Captain still AWOL.
• 2010-01 Captain still AWOL.
• 2010-02 Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.
• 2010-04 Pending until next month at the earliest.
• 2010-05 This project open since September 2009. Gary immediately left meeting.

• 2009-11 Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
• Channel is named #sluug.
• Typically 7 people on at times.
• 2009-12 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 R. will put the IRC channel info up on the web site.
• Stan R. will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages.
• 2010-05 This project open since November.

• 2009-12 Stan R. 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.
  • 2010-05 This project open since December.

• 2009-12 We need to change root passwords.
• 2010-0? Craig handed out new password cards.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
• 2010-05 This project open since December.

• Stan R. made new attendance sheets for:
  • SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG
  • Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.
  • 2010-05 This project open since January.

• New Sponsor thanks to Lee - Contegix

• Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
• Next Small Business Expo (SBE) in October.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Lee - order checks.
• 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 - print out minutes from June-March.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
• ALL - Need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!