From mp at rawbw.com Sat Oct 1 23:33:05 2005 From: mp at rawbw.com (Michael Paoli) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 23:33:05 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG 2005-10-18 meeting presentation: Shell Programming, by Michael Paoli Message-ID: <1128234785.433f7f2112d90@webmail.rawbw.com> I'll be doing a presentation on Shell Programming at the 2005-10-18 Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) meeting. BALUG meetings are (usually) the 3rd Tuesday, meeting is in Chinatown area in San Francisco. More details, "Announcement" information, etc., below. " BALUG 2005-10-18 meeting presentation: Shell Programming, by Michael Paoli This presentation promises to be a quite useful, informative, interesting, well referenced and fast introduction to Bourne (sh) and compatible [Korn (ksh), POSIX, Bash (bash), ash, etc.] shells. The presentation will cover a fast, but thorough tour of the shell and shell programming. It will cover all the way from why one would want to learn shell, why start with Bourne, etc., how to compactly learn it, through and including most key features of shell programming, and some key differences and caveats among the shells, and a collection of references to help round out leaning about shell programming. About Michael Paoli, our presenter for this event: Michael Paoli has been doing UNIX systems administration for well over a decade, been doing LINUX systems administration for over 7 years, and has been using and programming Bourne and compatible shells (bash, etc.) since even earlier than all that. He's also done well received classes/labs/presentations before, including topics of security, shells and Logical Volume Manager (LVM). For meeting time, location, cost (dinner), etc., please see the BALUG web site: http://www.balug.org/ " references: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2005-September/000047.html http://www.balug.org/ From mp at rawbw.com Wed Oct 5 22:44:09 2005 From: mp at rawbw.com (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:44:09 -0700 Subject: [buug] The Bay Area Super User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05) November 12, 2005, Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <1128577449.4344b9a926187@webmail.rawbw.com> The Bay Area Super User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05) November 12, 2005, Mountain View, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/baysug05/ e.g.: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/2005-October/001679.html I'd be interested in going, but not (at least yet) sure I'd be able to make it. If I'm able to make it, I might be able to "represent" one or more groups if they're not already represented/covered, and probably in about this order of precedence (relative to my proportional involvement (or lack thereof) in them): Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG) http://www.buug.org/ Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) http://www.balug.org/ Bay Area Debian (BAD) http://bad.debian.net/ Oakland Perl Mongers / Oakland Perl Users Group (OPUG) http://www.metaart.org/opug/ BUUG meetings are typically (but certainly not always) rather small, though the mailing list is a pretty good size. There are only a few of us that are rather to quite regular BUUG meeting attendees (myself among them), so I could probably cover BUUG pretty well if I'm able to make it. It sounds like BALUG is probably already well covered/represented. It's also quite probable there are active/interested Debian / BAD folks in/around the South Bay that may be able to cover BAD representation better than I could. There are probably folks that could better cover Oakland Perl Mongers / Oakland Perl Users Group (OPUG), but if not (e.g. due to meeting date conflict) I might be able to assist with representation there. references: http://www.usenix.org/events/baysug05/ http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/2005-October/001679.html http://www.usenix.org/events/baysug05/ugs.html Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG) http://www.buug.org/ Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) http://www.balug.org/ Bay Area Debian (BAD) http://bad.debian.net/ Oakland Perl Mongers / Oakland Perl Users Group (OPUG) http://www.metaart.org/opug/ From mp at rawbw.com Fri Oct 21 09:57:07 2005 From: mp at rawbw.com (Michael Paoli) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:57:07 -0700 Subject: [buug] LISA '05, San Diego, CA, December 4-9, 2005, sponsored by USENIX & SAGE Message-ID: <1129913827.43591de39a613@webmail.rawbw.com> LISA '05, San Diego, CA, December 4-9, 2005, sponsored by USENIX & SAGE USENIX would like us to mention to or remind folks about LISA '05. LISA (Large Installation System Administration) is a great event for system (and other computer-related) administrators. I've been to LISA multiple times, and highly recommend it. Lots of great information about the event can be found at the URL following ... and their clamis are not overstated: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa05/ And yes, it was at LISA that I first learned of Debian. Some highlihts also included/mentioned below (you might want to skip forward to the "(cut here)"). ----- Forwarded message from Lionel Garth Jones ----- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:53:20 -0700 From: Lionel Garth Jones Subject: Mention LISA at BAD meeting at Siam Kitchen? Hi Michael: I'm back again to promote another conference: we're holding our LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference in San Diego this year: December 4-9. Can you mention the conference at the meeting? See the online conference announcement below, Also, there are gif buttons and a pdf flyer for the conference at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa05/promote.html Are there other mechanisms we can use to get the message out to your membership? (e.g.: can we post this to the list, or can you post it for us?) We'd also like to spread the word to other potentially interested groups in the area: are there other local groups (user groups, ACM chapters, corporations, universities etc.) I should be trying to contact? Or let me know if I'm being harassing. Thanks for any help, -Peter Peter Mui USENIX Association 2560 9th Street STE 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 510 528 8649 ext. 28 pmui at usenix.org (cut here) =================================================== Join us in San Diego for the 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA'05) at http://www.usenix.org/lisa05/ progm The one conference to attend! For close to two decades LISA has been the annual convergence point for the global system and network administration community. This year's LISA continues that tradition of innovation with tools and techniques essential to your professional and technical development. NEW! 30 new tutorials, part of a full week's worth of great training NEW! "Solve My Problem" boards get your questions answered NEW! Hit the Ground Running tracks: 15-minute talks on how to get started on a particular topic TRAINING: Learn from the pros: 6 days and close to 60 tutorials, including: * Curtis Preston: Backup on a Budget * Dan Bailey: 802.11 Wireless Network Penetration Testing * Richard Bejtlich: Network Security Monitoring with Open Source Tools * Jacob Farmer: Disk-to-Disk Backup * Evan Marcus: Disaster Planning and Recovery * Mike Ciaverella and Lee Damon The Seven Habits of the Highly Effective Sys Admin KEYNOTE: Qi Lu, Yahoo!'s Vice President of Engineering: "Scaling Search Beyond the Public Web" TECH SESSIONS: 3 days of technical sessions with top-notch refereed papers, informative invited talks and panels: * Matt Blaze: "Picking Locks with Cryptology" * Kevin Bankston: "How Sysadmins Can Protect Free Speech and Privacy on the Electronic Frontier" * Dan Kaminsky: "Network Black Ops: Extracting Unexpected Functionality from Existing Networks" * Andrew Cowie: "Modern Trends in UNIX and Linux Infrastructure Management" * Terry Slattery: "Silly Network Management Tricks" GURU SESSIONS: Bring your perplexing technical questions to experts at LISA's unique Guru Is In sessions. EXHIBITS: Explore the latest commercial innovations at the Vendor Exhibition. LISA is the premier forum for presenting new research in system administration. We selected papers showcasing state-of-the-art work on topics including spam/email, intrusion and vulnerability detection, security, system integrity, and more. Sign up now for early registration discounts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT: LISA '05: the 19th(!) Large Installation System Administration Conference WHEN: December 4-9, 2005 WHERE: San Diego, CA, Town & Country Resort Hotel WHO: System Administrators, Network Administrators, CIOs, CTOs, Researchers, Tool Providers, Support and Help Desk personnel, etc. WHY: To get to and stay on the cutting edge of system administration HOW: Sign up NOW at http://www.usenix.org/lisa05/progm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Begin forwarded message: > Date: October 7, 2005 11:53:27 PM PDT > To: bad at bad.debian.net > Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD meeting at Siam Kitchen, S.F. > 2005-10-12 > > Quoting Michael Paoli: > >> BAD meeting at Siam Kitchen, S.F. 2005-10-1 > ^ > That should have read: > BAD meeting at Siam Kitchen, S.F. 2005-10-12 > > references: > http://bad.debian.net/list/2005-October/002981.html ----- End forwarded message ----- From mp at rawbw.com Fri Oct 21 11:53:26 2005 From: mp at rawbw.com (Michael Paoli) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:53:26 -0700 Subject: [buug] MacWorld - free exhibits only pass <= 2005-11-05 with Priority Code: B0201 Message-ID: <1129920806.43593926dc9a2@webmail.rawbw.com> Unfortunately without a Priority Code, the Exhibits Only pass/registration appears to no longer be free. With Priority Code: B0201 Exhibits Only pass/registration is apparently free through 2005-11-05. There may possibly be other Priority Codes that allow free Exhibits Only pass/registration subsequent to 2005-11-05. MacWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco 2006 January 9-13, 2006 The Moscone Center http://www.macworldexpo.com/ No, it's not LINUX, ... but it does have a Unix (BSD/Darwin) flavor under there, and can run lots of applications that are also common to many LINUX distributions and UNIX and BSD flavors, e.g.: http://fink.sourceforge.net/ And of course much of the Mac hardware can also run non-Apple operating system(s), e.g.: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual From webmaster at hawaiidakine.com Sat Oct 22 14:06:23 2005 From: webmaster at hawaiidakine.com (Al Plant) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:06:23 -1000 Subject: [buug] 6 hard disks for FreeBSD Server Message-ID: <435AA9CF.2090203@hawaiidakine.com> Hi Gurus, One of the people I work with wants to put 6 200GB hd's into a box to make a (FreeBSD OS) ftp server. Is there a way to do this that makes them all work as one seamless large drive? 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