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

• June 6, 2007
• 6:30 pm -

• ?? Carl Fitch
• ?? Lee Lammert
• ?? Craig Buchek
• ?? Gary Meyer
• ?? Patrick Bellinger
• ?? Stan Reichardt
• ??

• Secretary is catching up with things, but SLUUG minutes doesn't seem to be one of them.
• Craig - print out previous minutes?

• As of: 4/30/07
• Bank balance: $ 1275.59
• Pending deposits:
• Expenses
  • Pens - ordered, should be here soon
• Final bill from Wash U has not been received.
  • Gary to provide good address to forward correspondance

• Book sales

• Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers.
  • using URL as in http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf,
  • or http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on.
• Attendance for May 2007:
  • May 1 - 1stOLDAP: 7
  • May 2 - Steercom: 5
  • May 9 - SLUUG:
  • May 16 - 2ndOLDAP: 5
  • May 17 - STLLUG:
  • May 22 - Solaris: 15
  • May 22 - HZWLUG:
  • May 24 - STCLUG:
  • May 30 - Security: 9

• Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):

• TOPIC: How To Create a UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD) by Carl Fitch
  • This was an extended topic – there was no separate tutorial.
  • Reprise of last month's STCLUG presentation.
  • ??? Included discussion of Windows BartPE and Linux both bootable from CD ???
  • People could follow along if they brought their own Windows XP installation disc.
    • Could use an OEM recovery disc or Windows Server 2003.

• TOPIC: Ubuntu GNU/Linux by Jay Truesdale
• Craig and Stan were to be out of town. Needed someone to run the meeting.

• Nobody seemed to be updating http://solaris.sluug.org web page.
  • Jeff Logullo was maintaining a new web page
  • Stan R. put HTML page at our Solaris SIG URL to now redirect to Jeff L.'s new URL
  • New URL is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/stl-osug/
  • References to our http://solaris.sluug.org/ URL are automaticly redirected.
• TOPIC: Virtualizing Solaris: The Big Rules for Zones, Xen, LDOMs and VMware

• The HZWLUG meetings thru November are now listed on www.stlcalendar.com
• Experimenting with www.askarchy.com listing. Only submitted May meeting.
• Stan R. was not in town for this meeting.

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Snort and Base by Clarence Johnson
• meeting rescheduled on short notice from May 23rd

• Base: TBD
• Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell
  • People can follow along if they bring their own laptop and 1 GB USB memory stick.

• TOPIC: TBD

• Meeting date tentative - regular Prairie Commons Branch room not avialable on 26th; so, scheduled this date. Still trying to find a location for the regular date.
• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Physical Computing with Linux by Jason Burke (confirmed)

• Meeting location tentative - regular location not avialable on 26th
• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE
• by Chris Byrd, CISSP

• Stan R. updated STCLUG Web site.
• TOPIC: TBD

• Base: TBD
• Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (tentative)

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• Base: TBD
• Main: TBD

• TOPIC: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (tentative)

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• Recognition of extended membership levels has not yet been done.
• Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
• No effort means no new sponsors.

• Dark keeps crashing.
• Waiting for it to not come back up.

• Security issues

• Carl and Craig to meet at Lee's on May 9 to work on migration.
  • Compare notes on Postfix configuration.
  • Install and configure Drupal for multiple web sites.
    • Integrate Drupal module for Mailman.
  • Integrate SpamAssassin into Postfix.
    • Compare configuration with Dark.
  • Verify Postfix delivery to IMAP server.

• Stan R. and Ted P.
• No routine presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration.
• No migration means no real progress this month.

• Craig - finish up work on email server.
• Craig - get people to test using IMAP to connect to Bud from their email clients.
• Carl and Craig - get together to work on new servers.
• Gary - get Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes from Craig, and install them at Primary.

We have 3 handouts for our meetings, each available at the URLs listed below. They are given out at all of our meetings, at events where we have a booth, and are distributed to various St. Louis County Library Branches.

The SLUUG general information handout (front is portrait and back is landscape):

http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070418.pdf (portrait page)

http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070418.pdf (landscape page)

http://www.sluug.org/sluuginfo.pdf Combined front and back into one document.

All Revised 18 April 2007
Note that URLS in these PDFs are set up as hot links.

The Hazelwood LUG GNU/Linux for Beginners:

http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf

May 2007 version 3.5 (looks nice on light green paper)

Note that URLS in this PDF are set up as hot links.

The St. Louis Security Group Password Guidelines for Beginners:

http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf

April 2006 version 0.4

Stan R. has about 75 of the SLUUG general information handouts available. Don't need any more right now.

Stan R. is out of the last two. Have any more been printed?

The sluug.org domain expires in July. Gary Meyer put on his credit card.

• See SLUUG Info on file with State of Missouri.
• Due by 31 August, Carl saved us $5 last year by filing early.
• Are we still not getting hardcopy in the mail?
• Don't recognize name of "registered agent" shown on last year's form. Should that be changed on form?

• anything else?

• anything up there?