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, January 5, 2011
• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

• Lee Lammert
• Jerry Stutte
• Craig Buchek
• Stan Reichardt
• Gary Meyer (tardy and decorative)

• This item added per suggestion of Gary Meyer.
• Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?

• Nothing to report.

• Balance as of 11/31: $835.35
• Expenses: MO SOS (Craig Buchek) $25.00
• Income: none
• Balance as of 12/31: $810.35
• Need to encourage people to use the new PayPal buttons on the web site.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of December 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.
• Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
  • /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members list_name | wc -l

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

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
• BASE: Keyboard Karaoke by Various Members
  • Stan showed off some websites.
• MAIN: Arm-based Linux NAS Server (LG N2B1) by Lee Lammert
  • Good.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: Fault tolerant Linux solutions
  • Technical problems - could not give presentation
  • Great discussion of Novell and SuSE technologies

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: HAML/SASS/CoffeeScript by Craig Buchek
  • Good. Better than expected.
  • Need more like these – just introducing/demoing some cool application or technology.
    • When the presenter is just exploring, the whole audience actively learns, instead of passively.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• NO MEETING DUE TO X-MAS HOLIDAY

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
• Stan R. was not in town to run the meeting. Phil Bunch ran it.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
• BASE: BSD Jails and chroot by Lee Lammert
• MAIN: Comparison of ARM and Atom by Jerry Stutte

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: Running .NET applications on Linux using Mono by Gary Hollingsworth

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Linux for Blind Users by Igor Gueths (tentative)
• BACKUP: Setting Up Webalizer by Lee Lammert (tentative)

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

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• SLUUG Election Voting

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
• SLUUG Election Voting
• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: Cyber Security by Ruben Lopez (tentative, via Jerry)

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• SLUUG Election Voting
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• SLUUG Election Voting
• TOPIC: Video Capture and Editing by Noah Lance (tentative)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
• SLUUG Election Voting

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• SLUUG Election Voting
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• 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
• 2010-09
  • Backups have been disabled, since they were filling the / partition.
  • Postfix integration with MySQL – not working yet.
  • Trying to get Zimbra installed – not working yet either.
• 2010-10
  • Postfix and MySQL are now talking to each other (on Amber)
  • Mailman is installed - list info needs to be migrated over yet
  • Proposed date for work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th. Location TBD.
• 2010-11
  • We have 2 new boxes.
    • Compaq DL580 (G1) boxes at Lee's house.
    • 4 x 73 GB disks (old servers have 4 x 18GB)
    • 3 GB RAM (old servers have 4 GB)
  • Work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th at Lee's.
• 2010-12
  • Got Budlight back up and runnable
    • Got a fan to fit in it
    • Need to reinstall in rack
  • Got OS installed on DL580, but Grub didn't work.
  • Lee suggested we keep 1 of each system type.
    • Keep the 2nd of each system type as backup hardware.
• 2011-01 At December Blue Sky session Stan wanted to gather web analytics.
  • Craig said that there are 2 ways to accomplish this.
    • Way 1 is to analyze Apache logs, such as webalizer.
    • Way 2 is to use something like Google Analytics.
  • The group decided against using anything external like Google for this.
  • Craig and Lee got Webalizer working after the blue sky session.
  • Gary and Stan have been looking at the Webalizer reports.
  • http://www.sluug.org/hitreport/

• 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.
• 2010-09 Gary will work on this.
• 2010-10 No progress. Stan questioned Gary's usefulness. Suggested that he is merely decorative.
• 2010-11 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
• 2010-12 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
• 2011-01 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.

• 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.
• 2010-08 Status unchanged.
• 2010-09 Status unchanged.
• 2010-10 Mike Knight, Jerry, and Don all need password cards. Jeff sent mail to Craig inquiring.
• 2010-11 Jerry received a password card from Craig.
• 2010-12 Status unchanged.
• 2011-01 Craig REALLY intends to change root passwords VERY soon.

• 2010-09 Possible Linux event next May
  • Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference on 5 and 6 May 2011 http://magnetcon.info/
  • Web site looks like it went up early in February 2010.
  • Event name changed, was previously listed as Mid-America LinuxFest.
  • Web site had not kept up with July 2010 selection of St. Louis as city of choice.
  • Location seems to be St. Louis Union Station Marriott.
  • Appears to be for-profit.
  • Looking for sponsors.
  • We need someone to determine viability of efforts before we consider committing.
  • Any volunteers?
• 2010-10 Carl will investigate.
• 2010-11 Craig will investigate.
• 2010-12 Craig will investigate.
• 2011-01 Craig will investigate.

• 2010-10 SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• Gary Hollingsworth expects Novell to pull out of Linux.
  • Novell will be divesting its Linux business to VMware and the remaining assets to Attachmate.
  • Assume worst case that SNUG - St. Louis Novell Users Group will possibly dissolve.
  • Need confidential recommendations on SNUG funds.
  • There was no October meeting because of STL Business Expo.
  • Transition to be discussed by Gary M. at next SNUG meeting.
• 2010-11
  • Future of the group will be discussed this month.
• 2010-12
  • Was not discussed last month.
  • We should defer this discussion until Attachmate buy-out settles out.
• 2011-01
  • Attendance last month was excellent; no action required yet.

• 2010-11 STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• For December 2010 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. Our other domains scattered through out year.
• Suggestion was made that it might be possible to renew all domains during same month.
• Gary is going to check the possibility with vendors.
• 2011-01
  • Gary renewed STCLUG.ORG last month.

• 2010-11 STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• STLLUG meetings are now hosted at IT Enterprises, which is affiliated with UMSL.
• Typically because of meeting space value we recognize host as sponsor on our web pages.
• Previously, some educational institutions (other than UMSL) did not want to be listed.
• Lee updated the SLUUG web site sponsors list
  • Also added PayPal button to SLUUG web site membership join page.
• 2010-12 No status change.
• We should push the PayPal usage.
• 2011-01 Stan suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites.

• 2010-12
  • We have a voice recorder (VC) for recording meeting presentations and have posted some results on web site.
  • On 28 Oct Stan R. suggested buying an additional VC so that there wouldn't be a single point of failure.
    • We forget who has it.
    • We forget to bring it.
    • We forget to turn it on.
    • We forget fresh batteries.
    • We forget how to turn it on.
    • We forget to free up space on it.
  • There was some STEERCOM list banter but nothing was brought up at 3 November Steering Committee meeting.
  • Alternative of video recording suggested, huge size of video files was mentioned.
  • Stan R. passed voice recorder to Gary M. on 18 November and doesn't want it back.
  • Noah volunteered an old Digital8 recorder.
• 2011-01 Continued discussion, but no consensus.

• Annual Official Business Meeting is 2nd Wednesday in February.
• Elections are all the February meetings.
• All votes will be counted at the Steering Committee meeting.
  • On the 1st Wednesday in March.
• 2011-01
  • Carl Fitch's board seat is up this year.
  • Stan nominates Jerry Stutte for Board.
  • Craig nominates Gary for President.
  • We can start with last year's ballot – http://www.sluug.org/pdf/ballot2010.txt

• Mike Knight's emails regarding web site.
  • Stan changed the copyright dates.
  • Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources.
    • On a separate page from our own SIGs.
    • Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600.
  • Our site layout has not changed for years.
    • Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people.

• February 2011 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
• February 2011 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• April 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• April 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo
• May 2011 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
• July 2011 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
• October 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• October 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo
• December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
• August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (every 2 years).

• Stan talked about the 2-page hand-out we have for SLUUG.
  • Suggested we put the membership form on the back of that.
  • Lee will look into printing them out.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Who did what?
• Stan updated web pages.
• Gary renewed STCLUG domain.
• Gary did PR at the All-Geek Christmas Bowling.
  • Bowling event had 40 people from various groups, like PerlMongers and Lambda Lounge.
• Lee disabled a disuse account with 280 MB of email.
• Lee tested the PayPal button.
• Lee and Craig installed Webalizer.
• Jerry was mostly decorative.
• Craig was mostly decorative.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our servers.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight and Don Ellis have 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 on potential presentations.
  • Igor - blind Linux users
  • Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other
• Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android.
  • Talk to Lopez from FBI about Internet security.
  • Talk to Alan Griggs about 101 Windows Tricks Linux Users Should Know.
  • Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly.
  • Talk to Rich Siebel to see if Andrew Prunicki of OCI can talk to us.
  • See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations.
• Jeff - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
• Noah - work on Amber build.
• Gary - look into syncing domain renewals so they all happen at the same time of year.
• Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.