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====== Date and Time ====== | ====== Date and Time ====== | ||
* Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | * Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | ||
- | * 6:30 PM - | + | * 7:10 PM - |
====== Attendees ====== | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
- | :?: Craig Buchek | + | Carl Fitch |
- | :?: Gary Meyer | + | |
- | :?: Jeff Muse | + | |
- | :?: Jerry Stutte | + | |
- | :?: Stan Reichardt | + | |
+ | Stan Reichardt | ||
====== Secretary Report ====== | ====== Secretary Report ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
* Secretary has printed out minutes up through May. | * Secretary has printed out minutes up through May. | ||
====== Treasurer Report ====== | ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
* No report. Following info is from last month. | * No report. Following info is from last month. | ||
* Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009 | * Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009 | ||
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====== Mailing List Report ====== | ====== Mailing List Report ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
* Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of June 2009: | * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of June 2009: | ||
| List ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ | | List ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ | ||
- | ^ ANNOUNCE | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 7xx | | + | ^ ANNOUNCE | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 | |
- | ^ DISCUSS | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 2xx | | + | ^ DISCUSS | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 | |
^ STEERCOM | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | | ^ STEERCOM | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | | ||
^ SYSADMIN | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | | ^ SYSADMIN | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | | ||
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* ANNOUNCE mailing list. | * ANNOUNCE mailing list. | ||
* Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter. | * Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter. | ||
- | |||
====== Attendance Report ====== | ====== Attendance Report ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
* Attendance numbers, as of end of June 2009: | * Attendance numbers, as of end of June 2009: | ||
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^ Steercom | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | | ^ Steercom | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | | ||
^ SLACC | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 | 4 | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | | ^ SLACC | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 | 4 | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | | ||
- | ^ SLUUG | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 | | + | ^ SLUUG | 18| 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 27| 24 | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 | |
- | ^ STLOSUG | 10 | - | 12 | - | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | ? | 8 | 13 | - | x | | + | ^ STLOSUG | 10| - | 12 | - | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | ? | 8 | 13 | - | (7)| |
- | ^ SNUG | 5 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 5? | - | 7 | ? | - | ? | (6) | x | | + | ^ SNUG SuSE| 5 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 5? | - | 7 | ? | - |2(172)| (6)| 10 | |
- | ^ STLLUG | 22 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 32 |18(21)| 20 | 21 | x | | + | ^ STLLUG | 22| 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10| 19 | 32 |18(21)| 20| 21| (15)| |
^ STCLUG | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | - | 6 | 11? | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 | | ^ STCLUG | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | - | 6 | 11? | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 | | ||
- | ^ HZWLUG | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | | + | ^ HZWLUG | 10| 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | |
^ MythTV | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | | ^ MythTV | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | | ||
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==== SLUUG - July 8 ==== | ==== SLUUG - July 8 ==== | ||
* BASE: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek | * BASE: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek | ||
- | * MAIN: Managing Systems with Puppet by Kyle Cordes (TENTATIVE, via Craig) | + | * MAIN: TBD |
==== STLLUG - July 16 ==== | ==== STLLUG - July 16 ==== | ||
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==== STCLUG - July 23 ==== | ==== STCLUG - July 23 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | + | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) by Rich Warwick |
==== HZWLUG - July 28 ==== | ==== HZWLUG - July 28 ==== | ||
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==== STCLUG - August 27 ==== | ==== STCLUG - August 27 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | + | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) by Rick Clark (Ubuntu) |
==== MythTV - ==== | ==== MythTV - ==== | ||
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====== Potential Presenters ====== | ====== Potential Presenters ====== | ||
These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about. | These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about. | ||
+ | * Scott Granneman | ||
+ | * Snow Leopard (the next version of Mac OS X, when it comes out) | ||
+ | * iPhone (sometime after July) | ||
* Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig) | * Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig) | ||
* TOPIC: TBD | * TOPIC: TBD | ||
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* Stan Reichardt | * Stan Reichardt | ||
* Evaluating Security (Internet access required) | * Evaluating Security (Internet access required) | ||
- | * TOPIC/DEMO: Google Calendar (was done at STCLUG Apr 2009) | + | * Google Calendar (was done at STCLUG Apr 2009) |
- | * TOPIC/DEMO: Using Scribus | + | * VIM folding (done at SLUUG Jun 2009) |
+ | * Using Scribus | ||
* Tim Dreste (via Stan R) | * Tim Dreste (via Stan R) | ||
* TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform | * TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform | ||
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* GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop) | * GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop) | ||
- | ====== SLUUG Server Admin ====== | + | ====== SLACC Domain ====== |
- | FIXME | + | * Need to register SLACC.COM domain. |
- | * A 2nd NIC has been installed on Budlight. | + | * Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. |
+ | * Expires in September 2009; need to renew. | ||
+ | * Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter. | ||
+ | * Expires in August 2009. | ||
+ | * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses. | ||
+ | * 2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain. | ||
+ | * | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== STLLINUX Domain ====== | ||
+ | * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. | ||
+ | * | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== SLUUG Domain ====== | ||
+ | * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. | ||
+ | * | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== STCLUG Domain ====== | ||
+ | * 2009-06 Tasked Gary to point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers. | ||
+ | * | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Server Admin ====== | ||
+ | * 2009-06 A 2nd NIC has been installed on Budlight. | ||
* On back-end network (192.168.1.x) | * On back-end network (192.168.1.x) | ||
- | * Last octet matches octet of public IP. | + | * Last octet matches octet of public IP. |
- | * Rsnapshot has been installed on Budlight. | + | * 2009-06 Rsnapshot has been installed on Budlight. |
* Backing up /home, /etc, /var, and /root on Bud to /rsnapshot on Budlight. | * Backing up /home, /etc, /var, and /root on Bud to /rsnapshot on Budlight. | ||
* /rsnapshot is 100 GB volume on disk array. | * /rsnapshot is 100 GB volume on disk array. | ||
- | * Power outage at Hostirian on 5/21. | + | * 2009-06 Power outage at Hostirian on 5/21. |
* Jeff Muse had to go in to revive Budlight. | * Jeff Muse had to go in to revive Budlight. | ||
* Budlight was inaccessible about 18 hours. | * Budlight was inaccessible about 18 hours. | ||
* Due to flaky NIC, which we then swapped out. | * Due to flaky NIC, which we then swapped out. | ||
- | * Lee will install (and document) Webalizer on Bud, to gather web stats. | + | * 2009-05 Jeff Muse brought in an EMC Clariion with 10 x 36 GB drives |
- | * Partitions on Bud are getting full. | + | * Directly attached to Budlight via FibreChannel. |
- | * Home and var partitions. | + | * Still need to re-check hardware to get it running fully. |
- | * Tony looked into prices for 9 SCA hard drives - 36 GB and 72 GB. | + | * Will configure with RAID 5 and a hot spare. |
- | * $49 / drive for 72 GB drives. | + | * Considering using an LVM partition for some users. |
- | * Discussion on whether it might make more sense to replace the systems. | + | * 2009-04 Lee will install (and document) Webalizer on Bud, to gather web stats. |
- | * Discussion on whether it might make more sense to move storage to a separate NAS box. | + | * 2009-03 Partitions on Bud are getting full. |
- | * Leaning toward NAS solution. | + | * 2009-03 Home and var partitions. |
- | * Jeff Muse brought in an EMC Clariion with 10 x 36 GB drives | + | * 2009-04 Tony looked into prices for 9 SCA hard drives - 36 GB and 72 GB. |
- | * Directly attached to Budlight via FibreChannel. | + | * 2009-04 $49 / drive for 72 GB drives. |
- | * Still need to re-check hardware to get it running fully. | + | * 2009-04 Discussion on whether it might make more sense to replace the systems. |
- | * Will configure with RAID 5 and a hot spare. | + | * 2009-04 Discussion on whether it might make more sense to move storage to a separate NAS box. |
- | * Considering using an LVM partition for some users. | + | * 2009-04 Leaning toward NAS solution. |
- | * Jeff installed Solaris 10 on the remaining E250. | + | * 2009-03 Jeff installed Solaris 10 on the remaining E250. |
- | * Available at bock.sluug.org | + | * 2009-03 Ran into mirroring issues, due to disk sizes. |
- | * Contact Jeff Muse (jmuse) for accounts/access. | + | * 2009-05 Other E250 has been parted out and sold off. |
- | * Ran into mirroring issues, due to disk sizes. | + | * 2009-06 Available at bock.sluug.org |
- | * Other E250 has been parted out and sold off. | + | * 2009-06 Contact Jeff Muse (jmuse) for accounts/access. |
- | * Omnitec offered to provide secondary DNS for us. | + | * 2009-02 Omnitec offered to provide secondary DNS for us. |
* We would provide secondary DNS for them. | * We would provide secondary DNS for them. | ||
* Lee and Carl would maintain DNS on both ends. | * Lee and Carl would maintain DNS on both ends. | ||
- | * Dark is alive again, thanks to a campus-wide power outage. | + | * 2009-01 Dark is alive again, thanks to a campus-wide power outage. |
* Anyone who needs to get anything off should do so ASAP. | * Anyone who needs to get anything off should do so ASAP. | ||
* We should retire this system. | * We should retire this system. | ||
- | * Wash U took our **webdev** box (128.252.19.27) off network Mon December 1. | + | * 2008-12 Wash U took our **webdev** box (128.252.19.27) off network Mon December 1. |
* They detected questionable IRC traffic with IP addresses in Finland & Norway. | * They detected questionable IRC traffic with IP addresses in Finland & Norway. | ||
* We should analyze and respond. | * We should analyze and respond. | ||
- | * Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netras running Solaris 10. | + | * 2008-12 We're planning to setup our own DNS on Ultra/Busch. |
- | * Expect to use one like Bud and one for backup storage. | + | |
- | * We're planning to setup our own DNS on Ultra/Busch. | + | |
* Make our own servers authoritative for our own domains. | * Make our own servers authoritative for our own domains. | ||
* Would allow us to publish reverse records. | * Would allow us to publish reverse records. | ||
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* We could offer dyanmic DNS services to our members. | * We could offer dyanmic DNS services to our members. | ||
* On a subdomain, such as users.sluug.org | * On a subdomain, such as users.sluug.org | ||
- | * Steve Smith (from Solaris SIG) offered a 36 GB drive to install in one of the Netras. | + | * 2008-12 Steve Smith (from Solaris SIG) offered a 36 GB drive to install in one of the Netras. |
+ | * 2008-11 Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netras running Solaris 10. | ||
+ | * Expect to use one like Bud and one for backup storage. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Server Management ====== | ||
* Work left to do: | * Work left to do: | ||
* Make sure docs are up to date. | * Make sure docs are up to date. | ||
- | * Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud. | + | * 2008-01 Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud. |
- | * Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate. | + | * 2008-01 Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate. |
- | * See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages. | + | * 2008-01 See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages. |
* Craig - Work on finishing server builds. | * Craig - Work on finishing server builds. | ||
- | * Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig) | + | * 2008-01 Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig) |
- | * More security, for SSH and otherwise. | + | * 2008-03 More security, for SSH and otherwise. |
- | * Get offsite backups working. (Mike) | + | * 2008-01 Get offsite backups working. (Mike) |
- | * Publish SSH host keys on web page. | + | * 2008-01 Publish SSH host keys on web page. |
- | * Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike) | + | * 2008-03 Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike) |
* Other work to do: | * Other work to do: | ||
- | * Document useradd process. | + | * 2008-08 Document useradd process. |
- | * Better web site management tools | + | * 2008-03 Better web site management tools |
- | * Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines. | + | * 2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines. |
====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== | ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== | ||
- | FIXME | + | * Posted 2 new supporting members' names and level on SLUUG web site home page for May. |
- | * Decided to post new (and renewing) members' names on front page of web site. | + | * |
- | ====== SLACC ====== | + | ====== Other Old Business ====== |
- | FIXME | + | * Anything? |
- | * Need to register SLACC.COM domain. | + | |
- | * Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. | + | ====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ====== |
- | * Expires in September 2009; need to renew. | + | * Annual Report for 2008 is on file, next Annual Report due 31 August. |
- | * Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter. | + | * Filed documents available [[http://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?681250 |here. ]] |
- | * Expires in August 2009. | + | * REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS: |
- | * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses. | + | * $15.00 If filed on or before 8/31 |
+ | * $20.00 If filed after 8/31 | ||
+ | *Corporation will be administratively dissolved if report is not filed by November 30th. | ||
+ | * We still need to change the registered agent for surface mail delivery. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Other New Business ====== | ||
+ | * Anything? | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Blue Sky ====== | ||
+ | * Anything? | ||
====== Recognize Useful Effort ====== | ====== Recognize Useful Effort ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
* Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. | * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. | ||
* | * | ||
====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
* Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings. | * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings. | ||
* Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships. | * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships. | ||
* Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation. | * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation. | ||
- | * Gary - Clean up home directory on Bud. | + | * 2009-06 Tasked Gary to clean up home directory on Bud. |
- | * Carl, Gary - Transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain. | + | * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to work on presentations. |
- | * Craig - Update STLLINUX.ORG and SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. | + | * 2009-06 Tasked Lee to ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive. |
- | * Craig - Follow up w/ Kyle Cordes about presentations. | + | |
- | * Craig - Work on presentations. | + | |
- | * Gary - Point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers. | + | |
- | * Lee - Ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive. | + | |