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steercom:2009-12 [2009/12/02 19:23] SLUUG Administration Save during meeting. (CMB) |
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| ====== Date and Time ====== | ====== Date and Time ====== | ||
| * Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | * Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | ||
| - | * 6:30 PM - | + | * 6:30 PM - 8:35 PM |
| ====== Attendees ====== | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
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| * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. | * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. | ||
| - | ====== SLUUG Domain ====== | + | ====== Domains ====== |
| - | * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. | + | * Gary will add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain. |
| - | * 2009-08-31 Domain SLUUG.ORG only shows 2 names in WHOIS data. | + | * Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. |
| - | * 2009-09 Per Gary: Stan & I are the current 2 names so we (rather than Craig) need to add the 3rd. | + | * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses. |
| - | * 2009-10 Not Discussed | + | * Craig will renew STLLINUX.ORG and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data. |
| - | * 2009-11 Status quo | + | * Gary will renew the STCLUG.ORG domain - it will expire December 17. |
| - | * 2009-12 | + | |
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| - | ====== SLACC Domain ====== | + | |
| - | * 2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to renew SLACC.COM domain. | + | |
| - | * Need to register SLACC.COM domain. | + | |
| - | * Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. | + | |
| - | * Expires in September 2009; need to renew. | + | |
| - | Per Gary In August, someone already renewed until Sept 2011! Presumably Noel since he is still the ONLY listed contact. | + | |
| - | The LONG renewal does violate our concept of using annual renewals so that | + | |
| - | we keep an institutional memory (and familiarity), but we'll have to work it. | + | |
| - | We still need to get Noel to include our names/addresses in the registration. | + | |
| - | * Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter. | + | |
| - | * Expires in August 2009. | + | |
| - | Per Gary: It was renewed for another year in July by an anonymous registrant in the Netherlands. | + | |
| - | It is being used for the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. | + | |
| - | * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses. | + | |
| - | * 2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to transfer SLACC.COM domain. | + | |
| - | * 2009-10 Not Discussed | + | |
| - | * 2009-11 Status quo | + | |
| - | * 2009-12 | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ====== STLLINUX Domain ====== | + | |
| - | * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. | + | |
| - | * 2009-08-31 Domain STLLINUX.ORG only shows 1 name in WHOIS data. | + | |
| - | * 2009-10 Not discussed. | + | |
| - | * 2009-11 Status quo | + | |
| - | * 2009-12 | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ====== STCLUG Domain ====== | + | |
| - | * 2009-11 Gary says the STCLUG.ORG domain will expire in December. | + | |
| - | * Gary will renew it. | + | |
| - | * 2009-12 | + | |
| ====== Server Admin ====== | ====== Server Admin ====== | ||
| - | * 2009-08 The Sun E250 is now up and running. | + | * Stan has created [[/steercom/resources]] to keep track of our systems and what's running on them. |
| - | * Named ''bock''. | + | * Bud Light is currently offline, due to fan failure. (Failure was actually in Bud, but moved.) |
| - | * Running Solaris 10. | + | * Found that fans are actually standard 3-wire 12volt 92x92x25mm 62cfm fans, fairly common. |
| - | * Stuffed full of working hard drives. | + | * Carl will buy some from Gateway tomorrow. |
| - | * Has about 100 GB of RAID-Z ZFS. | + | * Otherwise Carl will order them online from Craig's research, posted to STEERCOM. |
| - | * 2009-08 Bud Light is doing daily rsnapshots to bock. | + | * Jeff has purchased 20 x 72GB FC replacement drives on Ebay and put them in Bud Light RAID 5 array. |
| - | * 2009-08 Bud backs up to Bud Light. | + | * Jeff has built script to do service checks, ping tests, etc. |
| - | * 2009-08 Stan created [[/steercom/resources]] to keep track of our systems and what's running on them. | + | * In /usr/local/bin/service_test.sh -- just troubleshooting scripts, particular to each machine's setup. |
| - | * 2009-10 Not discussed. | + | |
| - | * 2009-11 Drive array hooked to budlight is running in RAID 5 disabled mode. | + | |
| - | * Jeff will buy 20 x 72GB FC replacement drives on Ebay. | + | |
| - | * Approximately $120. | + | |
| - | * 2009-12 | + | |
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| - | ====== Server Management ====== | + | |
| * Work left to do: | * Work left to do: | ||
| * Make sure docs are up to date. | * Make sure docs are up to date. | ||
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| * 2008-03 Better web site management tools | * 2008-03 Better web site management tools | ||
| * 2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & use same UIDs across all production machines. | * 2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & use same UIDs across all production machines. | ||
| - | * 2009-10 During September: | ||
| - | * Jeff Muse had done kernel updates on BUDs. | ||
| - | * Jeff has built script to do service checks, ping tests, etc. | ||
| - | * Carl had turned off duplicate backups on BUD. | ||
| - | * Jeff has completed documentation on wiki regarding his earlier changes. | ||
| - | * 2009-11 | ||
| - | * 2009-12 | ||
| ====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ====== | ====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ====== | ||
| - | * Annual Report for 2008 is on file, next Annual Report due 31 August. | + | * Annual Report for 2009 is on file. |
| - | * Filed documents available [[http://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?681250 |here. ]] | + | * Filed documents available [[http://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?681250 | here]]. |
| * REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS: | * REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS: | ||
| * $15.00 If filed on or before 8/31 | * $15.00 If filed on or before 8/31 | ||
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| * Someone just needs to file the right paperwork. | * Someone just needs to file the right paperwork. | ||
| * We thought we had filled out the paperwork; apparently it's been lost or misplaced. | * We thought we had filled out the paperwork; apparently it's been lost or misplaced. | ||
| - | * The registration was updated by Carl in August 2009 | ||
| - | * 2009-10 Annual Report for 2009 have been processed and available on state's web page. Carl will do registered agent form. | ||
| - | * 2009-11 | ||
| - | * 2009-12 | ||
| ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== | ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== | ||
| - | * 2009-09 Jerry Stutte has written an app to manage membership. | + | * Jerry Stutte has written an app to manage membership. |
| * Working with Lee Lammert. | * Working with Lee Lammert. | ||
| * Need to deploy to bud. | * Need to deploy to bud. | ||
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| * Drop down list for State | * Drop down list for State | ||
| * Auto ID number generation | * Auto ID number generation | ||
| - | * 2009-10 Membership application now running on BUD. When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation. | + | * Membership application now running on BUD. When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation. |
| - | * 2009-11 During October: | + | * During October: |
| * At SLUUG meeting we explained St. Louis County Library (SLCL) policy change on room payments. | * At SLUUG meeting we explained St. Louis County Library (SLCL) policy change on room payments. | ||
| * Stan R. handed out all available Annual Supporting Membership forms during SLUUG meeting. | * Stan R. handed out all available Annual Supporting Membership forms during SLUUG meeting. | ||
| * Sales pitch for Supporting Memberships was to not throw form away, take it home, look at it. | * Sales pitch for Supporting Memberships was to not throw form away, take it home, look at it. | ||
| - | * Need more forms printed. | + | * Need more membership forms printed. |
| - | * 2009-12 | + | * Stan will send another message to STEERCOM asking for people to print out copies. |
| ====== SLCL Room Reservations ====== | ====== SLCL Room Reservations ====== | ||
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| * Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation. | * Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation. | ||
| * We can still collect donations for future meetings. | * We can still collect donations for future meetings. | ||
| - | * 2009-11 Completed in October: | + | * Completed in October: |
| * Paid Indian Trails - Carl Fitch | * Paid Indian Trails - Carl Fitch | ||
| * Paid Prairie Commons - Carl Fitch and Stan Reichardt | * Paid Prairie Commons - Carl Fitch and Stan Reichardt | ||
| * Paid Thornhill - Phil Bunch | * Paid Thornhill - Phil Bunch | ||
| - | * Come April or May we will have to again schedule and pay withing 14 days to reserve rooms for last six months of year. | + | * Come April or May we will have to again schedule and pay withing 14 days to reserve rooms for next six months. |
| * To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch. | * To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch. | ||
| - | * 2009-12 | ||
| ====== Wash U Cleanup ====== | ====== Wash U Cleanup ====== | ||
| - | * 2009-09 Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site. | + | * Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site. |
| - | * 2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain. | + | * Gary Meyer is Captain. |
| - | * 2009-10 Captain was AWOL. | + | * Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. |
| - | * 2009-11 | + | |
| - | * 2009-12 | + | |
| ====== IRC Channel ====== | ====== IRC Channel ====== | ||
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| * Channel is named #sluug. | * Channel is named #sluug. | ||
| * Typically 7 people on at times. | * 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 will put the IRC channel info up on the web site. | ||
| + | * Stan will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages. | ||
| ====== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list ====== | ====== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list ====== | ||
| * Stan would like us to clean up the SYSADMIN mailing list, to eliminate people who have not been active for the past year. | * Stan 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. | * 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. | ||
| - | * 2009-12 | ||
| ====== New Business ====== | ====== New Business ====== | ||
| - | * - | + | * Stan suggested we think about we need to do for the new year. |
| + | * Stan needs to make new attendance sheets. | ||
| + | * We need to change root passwords. | ||
| + | * 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 | ||
| + | * Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server. | ||
| ====== Blue Sky ====== | ====== Blue Sky ====== | ||
| * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects. | * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects. | ||
| - | * - | ||
| ====== Recognize Useful Effort ====== | ====== Recognize Useful Effort ====== | ||
| * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. | * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. | ||
| - | * - | + | * Jeff - upgraded kernels on our Linux systems, broke system fan in the process |
| + | * Jerry - lots of work on membership display program | ||
| ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ||
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| * 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. | ||
| - | * Craig - Contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet. | + | * Gary - add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain. |
| + | * Gary - renew the STCLUG.ORG domain - it will expire December 17. | ||
| + | * Carl and 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 - contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet. | ||
| + | * Craig - renew STLLINUX.ORG, and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data. | ||
| + | * Craig - print out minutes from June-December. | ||
| + | * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card. | ||
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