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, July 7, 2010
• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

• Jeff Muse
• Noah Lance
• Craig Buchek
• Lee Lammert
• Jerry Stutte
• Ted Palmer

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June 2009.

• Balance as of 6/30: $1359.50
• Expenses: none
• Income: ~$65 in room fee donations
• Income: ~$180 in membership dues

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

• Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
• Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
• Attendance numbers, as of end of June 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.

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

• BASE: Autostarting a Virtual Box server by Don Ellis
  • Showed VBoxTool, nice command-line management of VMs
• MAIN: IBM Cloud Services by Dale Taylor of IBM
  • Good presentation.
  • Great swag. ;)

• HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

• TOPIC: SuSE-Novell Pulse
  • Pulse is a social media aggregator.
  • Good.

• TOPIC: IT Enterprises, their Open Source Lab, and how SLUUG can help, by William Lemon
  • Good. Turned into a full-length discussion.

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

• TOPIC: General discussion.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

     July 2010      
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• 2010-05 Previous room reservations at Thornhill library were NOT paid, so they expired.
• 2010-06 On 20 May Auditorium reserved and paid. Open from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.

• Back to back meeting
• BASE: DNS Masquerading by Jerry Stutte
• MAIN: VMware Update - Matt Skipton (Confirmed) via Lee Lammert

• Back to back meeting.
• TOPIC: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling (via Craig)
  • PROBLEM: CANNOT MAKE JULY 15. TRYING TO SEE IF MATT SKIPTON CAN DO JULY 15.

• HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Comparing Windows Basics to Linux Basics by Noah Lance

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

    August 2010     
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: Features of GNU grep by Craig Buchek
  • –count, –context, -A, -B, -e, –color, etc.
• MAIN: Open Source Software in Genomics by David Dooling (via Craig)

• HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

• 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)

   September 2010   
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: Parallel Computing Using a Linux Cluster by Sanjiv Bhatia and George Gerules (per Jerry S.)

• HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

• 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.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• 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.
  • On 20 May, Stan R. paid for SLACC Thornhill Branch Library Auditorium July through December 2010.
  • SLACC web page changed. Calendar changed. Changes to be reflected in upcoming Announce mailing.
  • On 18 May, Noah L. signaled change to new STLLUG location.
• 2010-06
  • Stan R. asked Gary M. to notify Indian Trails and get refund.
  • Library could not figure out how to give a refund, so there are two meeting charges outstanding - need to get refund!
  • STLLUG web page changed. Calendar and Announce mailings noted STLLUG change.
  • Need to get refund from Indian Trails.
• 2010-07
  • CRAIG - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use.
    • Or transfer the 2 months to SLACC or HZWLUG.

• 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 - Amber
  • Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
• 2010-05
  • PrimaryNet problem with possible rogue 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 Lance willing to diagram our assets – later.
  • Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box.
• 2010-06
  • Golden Wheat ready for reinstall - setup with virtual appliance Debian 5 XVA.
  • Lee is building backup on a server built - aliased as AMBER. We might need different name.
• 2010-07
  • Golden Wheat has been re-installed, and fully functional.
  • Amber had incorrect DNS entry; Craig fixed it.
  • Lee copied over Bud home directories to /bu/home on Amber.
    • Cannot get rsync to work between the 2 systems.

• 2009-09 Jerry Stutte, 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.
• 2010-06 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
• 2010-07 Gary not here, nothing resolved.

• 2009-11 Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
  • Channel is named #sluug.
• 2010-07 Stan built SLUUG IRC Info page http://www.sluug.org/resources/irc/
  • Posted item on STEERCOM list, 28 June, asking for review and comments.
  • Added link reference on 5 July ANNOUNCE mailing item.

• 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.
• 2010-06 Not finished
• 2010-07 Sent warning of purge on 30 June to SYSADMIN and STEERCOM mailing lists.
  • Gary M. and Stan R. will determine exceptions.

• 2009-12 We need to change root passwords.
• 2010-01 Craig handed out new password cards.
• 2010-06 Stan R. will build an unviewable page to record the number for server list.
  • Further implementation when we move BUD downtown.
• 2010-07 Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.

• Stan R. completed new attendance sheets for all active groups.

• GOAL - Moving production to our cloud so that we don't have to worry about hardware.
• Cloud server donated by Contegix downtown.
• New server is named Amber.
• Contact Lee or Jeff Muse to volunteer help.
• Next steps:
  • Get rsync problem resolved.
  • Start migrating services from Bud.

• 2010-06 Late 16 May Stan R. saw article on annual filing requirement.
  • IRS will revoke tax status on non-filing non-profit organizations.
  • Stan R. went into panic mode and passed action to Gary Meyer.
  • Per Gary and Gary
  • Per Lee
  • Per Mike Knight
  • Gary, Gary, Lee and Mike put out fire.
  • Annual requirement - needs to be done every May

• Arch Reactor wants to do an InstallFest (brought to us by Noah)
  • Would like to do this in conjunction with SLUUG
  • Would like to hold at ITe to get them publicity too
  • Looking at fall quarter
  • Targeting professionals and hobbyists
• ITe also expressed interest in working with any companies working with Open Source

• Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
• Lee wants us to complete something that is already listed.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Stan did a lot of work this month:
  • Created new sign-in sheets
  • Created IRC info page
  • Prepped wiki page for Steering meeting minutes
  • ANNOUNCE mailings

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• 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.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
• Craig - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use.
  • Or transfer the 2 months to SLACC or HZWLUG.
• Craig - follow up w/ Kyle Cordes for ffmpeg presentation - August or September?