From jecarr13 at charter.net Tue Sep 3 14:01:38 2002 From: jecarr13 at charter.net (Jim Carr) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:01:38 -0700 Subject: Talk for Network magazine story on certification Message-ID: <00e401c2538d$18ad4d20$6501a8c0@home> [Message hand-de-MIMEd by approver -- dhw] Hello: I'm researching a story on networking/computer certification for Network Magazine (www.networkmagazine.com) and would like to talk with technical professionals such as systems admins for it. I'd like to talk about the issues (i.e., "whys") of certification, real and perceived benefits derived from certification, and good/bad experiences you've had with certification programs. I'd appreciate it if BayLISA members with something to say on this topic would contact me via e-mail (jecarr13 at charter.net) or phone (831-786-9571)to set up a time talk this week or early next. (I'm in Aptos, near Santa Cruz, by the way). Should take only 20-30 minutes of your time. Thanks in advance for your help, and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Regards, Jim Carr Freelance Writer/Editor 831-786-9571 jecarr13 at charter.net From Ron.Leedy Fri Sep 6 13:06:07 2002 From: Ron.Leedy (Ron.Leedy) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:06:07 -0700 Subject: Help finding cables Message-ID: <200209062125.g86LPef24204@www.baylisa.org> [De-HTML-ed as a favor to the poster by approver -- dhw] I need help finding some cables for a Sun L1000 Tape Library. I have the Sun FE number and descriptions but it seems nobody (including Sun) sells these cables. The cables are: Part Number Description 370-3545 External SCSI 90 degree hood, HD68 to HD68 18cm 370-3546 External SCSI 90 degree hood, HD68 to HD68 36cm I am calling UltraSpec but am afraid of the costs for custom cables. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Ron Leedy Manager of Operations diCarta, Inc. www.dicarta.com ron.leedy at dicarta.com 650.474.3842 (office) 650.474.3888 (Fax) 600 Allerton St., 2nd Floor Redwood City, CA 94063 From chuck+baylisa at snew.com Fri Sep 13 15:32:31 2002 From: chuck+baylisa at snew.com (Chuck Yerkes) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:32:31 -0700 Subject: FWD: OpenSSL Worm Message-ID: <20020913153231.A19817@snew.com> Exploits of last July's SSL bugs. (0.9.6e and previous). Not necessarily information as much as a pointer to and an "amber alert"... ---------------------------------------------------- >From Ben Laurie: I have now seen a worm for the OpenSSL problems I reported a few weeks back in the wild. Anyone who has not patched/upgraded to 0.9.6e+ should be _seriously worried_. It appears to be exclusively targeted at Linux systems, but I wouldn't count on variants for other systems not existing. Cheers, Ben. ---------------------------------------------------- >From a f.o.a.f. at a univ: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:11:28 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) ... Subject: unix-sa: OpenSSL Worm Here's a great way to end the week... There's a worm on the loose that exploits known vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. Infected hosts communicate with each other over udp/2002. Infected hosts probe random IP addresses looking for Apache servers that disclose information about themselves. See: http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/5363/discussion/ for more information including patching info for OpenSSL and band-aids that can be applied to Apache servers to thwart the worm in the event that immediate patching is not possible. I've seen two cases on campus in the past hour. ----- End forwarded message ----- From extasia at mindspring.com Mon Sep 16 14:28:00 2002 From: extasia at mindspring.com (David Alban) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:28:00 -0700 Subject: SIG-BEER-WEST this Saturday 9/21/2002 in San Francisco Message-ID: <20020916142800.A28246@new.gerasimov.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Isuzu promises a high-paying, interesting, fun tech job to anyone who wants one! [He's lying.] Hear all about it at: SIG-beer-west Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 6:00pm San Francisco, CA Beer. Mental stimulation. This event: * Saturday, 09/21/2002, 6:00pm, at the Toronado, San Francisco Coming events (third Saturdays): * Saturday, 10/19/2002, 6:00pm * Saturday, 11/16/2002, 6:00pm * Saturday, 12/21/2002, 6:00pm San Francisco's next social event for computer sysadmins and their friends, sig-beer-west, will take place on Saturday, September 21, 2002 at the Toronado in San Francisco, CA. The Toronado has an impressive selection of draught and bottled beer. Festivities will start at 6:00pm and continue until we've all left. The Toronado has an excellent selection of beer, but no food. It is perfectly okay to score food from neighboring establishments and bring it back to the Toronado to eat. Also, after we are all full with beer we may roam off to a nearby restaurant. Everyone is welcome at this event. We mean it! Please feel free to forward this link and to invite friends, co-workers, and others who might enjoy lifting a glass with interesting folks from all over the place. (Well, O.K., you do have to be of legal drinking age to attend.) For directions to the Toronado, please use the excellent directions at their website . When you show up at the Toronado, you should look for some kind of botched sig-beer-west sign. We will try to make it obvious who we are. :-) Any Comments, Questions, or Suggestions of Things to Do Later on That Evening ... email Fiid or David . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sig-beer-west was started when a couple Washington, D.C. based systems administrators who moved to the San Francisco Bay area wanted to continue a dc-sage tradition, sig-beer, which is described in dc-sage web space as: SIG-beer, as in "Special Interest Group - Beer" ala ACM, or as in "send the BEER signal to that process". The original SIG-beer gathering takes place in Washington DC, usually on the first Saturday night of the month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -- Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors. *** Unix sysadmin available: http://www.gerasimov.net/~alban/jac/resume.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9hkjJPh0M9c/OpdARAs6cAJ9/OWz45iYQL+xCyvEyc4Oqr1XGxQCgkvP+ lIJaaCaiuRShVF+P7qvTW6c= =oOMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From star at starshine.org Mon Sep 16 20:55:57 2002 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:55:57 -0700 Subject: BayLISA 7:30pm Sep 19 (Thurs) Message-ID: <20020917035557.GA3874@starshine.org> Yes, it's a Monday. We all know about Mondays. Our monthly BayLISA meeting is this week, and unless your downtime window at night allows for you catching a bit of email - or you're in another time zone - with any luck you're catching this on Tuesday. (Sorry about the late posting, but rest assured, it's going to a few other places too. The reminder Wed Eve/Thurs morning will be a lot shorter.) So.... you are cordially reminded... 7:30 PM Incyte Genomics Corporate Headquarters, Palo Alto. See http://www.baylisa.org/locations/current.html for directions. TOM LIMONCELLI Lumeta Corporation co-author of "The Practice of System and Network Administration" "How do sysadmins write books?" or "How to write a book with someone you don't know: Internet collaboration for the truly geeky" It's easy to do a new project: Just take everything you've learned before, and reuse it the best you can. When Tom Limoncelli and Christine Hogan wrote the new book "The Practice of System and Network Administration" they had a couple challenges: They didn't know each other. They were 5 timezones apart. They had to share and interact with gigabytes of data. Their solution was to apply their sysadmin tools to the process. To solve their Internet collaboration needs, they used the tools commonly found in Open Source collaborations (CVS, SSH, Make, Apache, and so on). To deal with the fact that they didn't know each other, they applied the "soft skills" concepts presented in the book. This talk will cover the techniques they used to collaborate on a project that would envelope their entire lives for more than 2 years. Amazingly enough, the book was completed, nobody went crazy in the process, and they've still only met in person 7 times. While this talk sounds like it's about collaboration, it's really about system administration. The project had security requirements, reliability requirements, bandwidth requirements, processes to be defined, and tons of scripting. We can't imagine how non-sysadmins write books at all! You can preview the book on http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com or order it here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201702711/safocus-20 NEWS ..... We have an extra special thanks to Incyte for hosting us for a year longer than any of our other previous meeting hosts. They've been grand, and now it's our turn to offer them something special; their room back :> In the Olden Days the BayLISA meeting moved around. We like the solid feeling of coming to the same place every month. We do have some offers from the past which we are looking into. If you have a site worth of hosting BayLISA general meetings for a year or two, please contact the Wheels at blw at baylisa.org with details about the features and restrictions of your meeting space. And of course, stay tuned - when we confirm the new meeting arrangements, we'll announce them far and wide. BRUSH UP YOUR TALES AND TIDBITS .... December is our Short But Cool month, where members of BayLISA are encouraged to make smaller presentations about useful tricks and great tools that get the job done. If you've got a 10 to 20 minute talk you'd like to give, please contact the Wheels to sign up as one of our Short But Cool talks for December. THE USUAL ..... Our meetings are free and open to the public. But we do have expenses, bringing in great speakers like Tom. So, if you like what you see, new members, renewals of old memberships, buying T-shirts and pint-glasses, or encouraging a Corporate Sponsor to become a member at the corporate rate are all appreciated. People sometimes go to dinner after the meeting. The location is announced after the speaker finishes and we thank him and our hosts for the evening's dash of knowledge. -* Heather Stern * Arch (secretary) BayLISA Board * http://www.baylisa.org/ *- From alex at usenix.org Wed Sep 18 09:36:43 2002 From: alex at usenix.org (Alex Walker) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:36:43 -0700 Subject: Early registration for LISA '02, the 16th Systems Administration Conference Message-ID: <3D88AB9B.4050403@usenix.org> There are only three weeks left to take advantage of early registration discounts for LISA '02, the 16th Systems Administration Conference, taking place November 3-8,2002 in Philadelphia. Register by Friday, October 11 and save up to $300. http://www.usenix.org/lisa02/ Select from 39 tutorials, including: - UNIX, Solaris, and Linux system administration - Performance tuning, disaster recovery planning, SANs, massive upgrades, user request management, and other service challenges - Monitoring, intrusion detection, firewalls, and Web security - DNS administration and practical wireless networking Hear from industry leaders, including: - Keynote: Jim Reese, Chief Operations Engineer of Google, on - Google's architecture and the challenges of running an Internet - search service - Paul Vixie on Internet governance, peering, and legislation - Curtis Preston, backup guru, on streamlining backup and recovery - Len Sassaman on "the promise of privacy" - Tim Nagle of TRW on his years with the NSA Red Team - Daniel V. Klein on the constitutional and legal arguments against spam * Evaluate new approaches to automation, monitoring, security, and the evolving theory of system administration (among other topics) in the Refereed Paper sessions * Bring your perplexing technical questions to experts at LISA's unique "The Guru Is In" sessions * Explore the latest commercial innovations at the FREE Vendor Exhibition For complete program information and to register, visit http://www.usenix.org/lisa02/ From star at starshine.org Thu Sep 19 11:58:50 2002 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:58:50 -0700 Subject: BayLISA -tonight- 7:30pm Message-ID: <20020919185850.GB16778@starshine.org> Just a gentle remind - put it in your PDA or something - that the BayLISA meeting is tonight. 7:30 PM. Incyte Genomics HQ. http://www.baylisa.org/ locations/current.html Tom Limoncelli is going to tell us about all the sysadminly things he and Christine had to do in order to collaborate on their book. See you all there! -* Heather Stern * Arch (secretary) BayLISA Board * http://www.baylisa.org/ *- From star at starshine.org Tue Sep 24 00:55:33 2002 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:55:33 -0700 Subject: your mail In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020924075533.GG9468@starshine.org> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:25:20AM -0700, Guy wrote: > > ieee is taking a stand on the H-1B visa issue. I thought maybe baylisa > would be interested in doing something, too. > > http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/issues/H1bvisa/ The style of corporate entity which we happen to be, is restricted in the sorts of political behavior we can indulge in. However, our individual members may find it interesting, so I have cc'd the group at large on this reply. IF YOU GET INVOLVED please do not imply that endorsement or suggestions of BayLISA as an organization affects your actions without consulting our Board. Thank you. -* Heather Stern * Arch (secretary) BayLISA Board * http://www.baylisa.org/ *- From conrad at apple.com Tue Sep 24 21:49:42 2002 From: conrad at apple.com (Conrad Minshall) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:49:42 -0700 Subject: your mail In-Reply-To: <20020924075533.GG9468@starshine.org> References: Message-ID: At 12:55 AM -0700 9/24/02, Heather Stern wrote: >On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:25:20AM -0700, Guy wrote: >> >> ieee is taking a stand on the H-1B visa issue. I thought maybe baylisa >> would be interested in doing something, too. >> >> http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/issues/H1bvisa/ > > The style of corporate entity which we happen to be, is restricted > in the sorts of political behavior we can indulge in. Politically active organizations have value, but so do the politically passive ones. > However, our individual members may find it interesting, so I have > cc'd the group at large on this reply. Thank you for forwarding this - given the reduced demand for OS engineers I found the links at the IEEE URL to be interesting. > IF YOU GET INVOLVED please do not imply that endorsement or suggestions > of BayLISA as an organization affects your actions without consulting > our Board. I'm mildly surprised this needed to be said. Maybe the general point here is to be strictly honest when representing the positions of other people and organizations. So I might truthfully say, for instance, "some fellow USENIX members share my opinions about the DoJ's August 5th Microsoft Consent Decree Compliance Advisory ", but I must never falsely state, or imply, a specific entity's position on the issue. Conrad Minshall Caveats: This email may or may not be a forgery. It may or may not have been modified in transit. It may or may not represent the opinions of the supposed author. There is no such thing as PGP. Rot13 and DMCA will do ya. -- Conrad Minshall h:408-446-2323 rad at acm.org / w:408-974-2749 conrad at apple.com