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, August 4, 2010
• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

• Jeff Muse
• Noah Lance
• Craig Buchek
• Jerry Stutte

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June 2009.

• Balance as of 6/30: $1359.50 (no update as of 8/4)
• Expenses: none
• Income: none

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

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

• BASE: DNSMasq by Jerry Stutte
  • Good explanation of when and why to use DNSMasq
• MAIN: VMWare update by Matt Skipton
  • Good presentation. Highly informative, always a good speaker

• HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

* Cancelled - speaker couldn't make it

• Tried to cancel but failed. Discussion of HTML5, wget, and curl facilitated by Craig.

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

• TOPIC: Discussion of microprocessors in model rocketry.
• Speaker Bdale Garbee of HP

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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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: Comparison of dpkg vs RPM by Jeff Muse (tentative)

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

• TOPIC: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives, by Craig

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) by Gary Meyer

• HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Topic: Parallel Computing Using a Linux Cluster by Sanjiv Bhatia and George Gerules (per Jerry S.)

• TOPIC: DNSMasq revisited, by Jerry Stutte

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

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: mdadm by Jeff Muse

• HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Postfix by Craig Buchek

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

• TOPIC: Continuation of Linux v. Windows by Noah Lance

Update front page of sluug.org so that we are current with presentations listed above.

• Who will be there from SLUUG?
• Do we have signs/banners/handouts?
  • Due to late notice we are having problems finding volunteers to work the event. We will not be participating.

• 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 — JEFF FIXED THIS
  • Work party at the bat cave - started on web, mail, system services, user IDs. Big problem now is that mysql won't let postfix log in.

* 2010-08

• Jerry is working on setting up Nagios

• 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.
• 2010-08 Possibly this topic belongs under 'blue sky'

• 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.

• 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)
  • Likely in October
  • 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
• Invite Splunk reps to speak at SLUUG? Jeff and Lee can contact them to give a presentation.

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

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• We really miss Stan R (in particular ANNOUNCE and keeping calendar and web sites up-to-date)

• 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?
• Jerry - talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly about presentation on Android
• Jeff - talk to Splunk reps about presenting