From laura at usenix.org Mon Apr 10 15:18:32 2006 From: laura at usenix.org (Laura Sheehan) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: LISA '06 Call for Papers Message-ID: <200604102218.k3AMIWLp011669@voyager.usenix.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers LISA '06: 20th Large Installation System Administration Conference December 3-8, 2006, Washington, D.C., USA http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/cfpa Extended Abstract and Paper Submissions Deadline: May 23, 2006 Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague The LISA '06 organizers invite you to contribute proposals for refereed papers, invited talks, and workshops, plus any ideas you have for Guru Is In sessions, Work-in-Progress reports, and training sessions. The Call for Participation with submission guidelines and sample topics can be found on the USENIX Web site at http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/cfpa The annual LISA conference is the meeting place of choice for system, network, security, and other computing administrators. Administrators of all specialties and levels of expertise meet at LISA to exchange ideas, sharpen skills, learn new techniques, debate current issues, and meet colleagues and friends. People representing every work assignment from the full-time position at a large site to the part-time one at a small shop come to LISA from over 30 countries, bringing a variety of backgrounds and experience levels to the conference dedicated to them. System and network administrators from environments as diverse as academia, large corporations, small businesses, government organizations, and research sites find LISA to be the place to go for training, education, networking, and interacting with their peers. The conference's diverse group of participants is matched by an equally broad spectrum of activities: * Training sessions for both beginners and experienced attendees cover many administrative topics ranging from basic administrative procedures to using cutting-edge technologies. * Refereed papers present the latest developments and ideas related to system and network administration. * Invited talks and panels discuss important and timely topics and often spark lively debates and conversation. * Work-in-progress reports (WiPs) provide brief peeks at next year's innovations. GET INVOLVED! * Submit a draft paper or extended abstract proposal for a refereed paper. * Suggest an invited talk speaker. * Share your experience by leading a Guru Is In session. * Propose a training session topic. * Organize or suggest a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session. * Email an idea to the chair: lisa06ideas at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Extended Abstract and Paper Submissions Deadline: May 23, 2006 Invited Talks proposals due: June 1, 2006 Notification to authors: July 12 2006 Final papers due: September 12, 2006 Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/cfpa Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE ------------------------------------------------------------- We look forward to hearing from you! On behalf of the LISA '06 Program Committee, William LeFebvre lisa06chair at usenix.org From david at catwhisker.org Tue Apr 11 09:10:10 2006 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:10:10 -0700 Subject: Pointers to resource materials for Postfix? Message-ID: <20060411161010.GL692@bunrab.catwhisker.org> I need to do a couple of things with some Postfix installations; I'm looking for pointers to resources that others have found useful. I have a copy of the O'Reilly book by Kyle D. Dent, but I'm finding it insufficient. (I confess that I'm a little disappointed in the book: it's dated 2004, but appears to be a bit out-dated in some respects.) The first of these -- perhaps the more urgent of the two -- is to address performance: I need to understand how the various "knobs" Postfix supplies interact, and where I can get the most "bang for the buck." The second is in some conflict with the first: I need to understand what would be involved in setting up a Postfix MTA to (e.g.) reject unwanted mail during the SMTP conversation, but to have the criteria for doing that vary from one recipient to another -- even if the different recipients are recipients of the same message. Oh -- and I'll have multiple MXen that need to maintain a consistent set of criteria. I'd appreciate useful pointers; I plan to summarize responses. Thanks! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org Mail filters, like sewers, need to be most restrictive at the point of entry. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. From lgj at usenix.org Tue Apr 11 10:18:38 2006 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:18:38 -0700 Subject: LISA '06 Call for Papers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers LISA '06: 20th Large Installation System Administration Conference December 3-8, 2006, Washington, D.C., USA http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/cfpa Extended Abstract and Paper Submissions Deadline: May 23, 2006 Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague The LISA '06 organizers invite you to contribute proposals for refereed papers, invited talks, and workshops, plus any ideas you have for Guru Is In sessions, Work-in-Progress reports, and training sessions. The Call for Participation with submission guidelines and sample topics can be found on the USENIX Web site at http://www.usenix.org/ lisa06/cfpa The annual LISA conference is the meeting place of choice for system, network, security, and other computing administrators. Administrators of all specialties and levels of expertise meet at LISA to exchange ideas, sharpen skills, learn new techniques, debate current issues, and meet colleagues and friends. People representing every work assignment from the full-time position at a large site to the part-time one at a small shop come to LISA from over 30 countries, bringing a variety of backgrounds and experience levels to the conference dedicated to them. System and network administrators from environments as diverse as academia, large corporations, small businesses, government organizations, and research sites find LISA to be the place to go for training, education, networking, and interacting with their peers. The conference's diverse group of participants is matched by an equally broad spectrum of activities: * Training sessions for both beginners and experienced attendees cover many administrative topics ranging from basic administrative procedures to using cutting-edge technologies. * Refereed papers present the latest developments and ideas related to system and network administration. * Invited talks and panels discuss important and timely topics and often spark lively debates and conversation. * Work-in-progress reports (WiPs) provide brief peeks at next year's innovations. GET INVOLVED! * Submit a draft paper or extended abstract proposal for a refereed paper. * Suggest an invited talk speaker. * Share your experience by leading a Guru Is In session. * Propose a training session topic. * Organize or suggest a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session. * Email an idea to the chair: lisa06ideas at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Extended Abstract and Paper Submissions Deadline: May 23, 2006 Invited Talks proposals due: June 1, 2006 Notification to authors: July 12 2006 Final papers due: September 12, 2006 Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/lisa06/cfpa Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE ------------------------------------------------------------- We look forward to hearing from you! On behalf of the LISA '06 Program Committee, William LeFebvre lisa06chair at usenix.org From lgj at usenix.org Wed Apr 12 10:58:42 2006 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:58:42 -0700 Subject: SRUTI '06: Paper Submissions Due April 20 Message-ID: The submissions deadline for the 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI '06) is quickly approaching! Please submit your work by Thursday, April 20, 2006. SRUTI seeks research on the unwanted traffic problem that * looks across the protocol stack * examines attack commonalities * investigates how various solutions interact and whether they can be combined to increase security The SRUTI '06 Program Committee is looking for ideas in networking and systems, and insights from other areas such as databases, data mining, and economics. SRUTI aims to bring academic and industrial research communities together with those who face the problems at the operational level. Original research, promising ideas, and steps toward practical solutions at all levels are sought. To ensure a productive workshop environment, attendance will be by invitation and/or acceptance of paper submission. SRUTI '06 will be held July 6-7, 2006, in San Jose, CA. Full submission guidelines can be found at http://www.usenix.org/events/sruti06/cfpb From sigje at sigje.org Wed Apr 12 23:56:46 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: BayLISA General Meeting - April 20, 2006 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please join us for pizza, social networking, and discussions on virtualization, VMWare technologies, and what desktop Linux and Server class Linux have given to each other. When: April 20, 2006, 7:00-9:45pm Location: De Anza Building 3 Auditorium, 10500 N De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 Virtual Infrastructure Methodology (VIM) - Virtual Infrastructure deploment discussion - Assess, Plan, Build, Manage Rich Hogan Virtualization Assessments Jeremy Porter, VCP at Entisys Features of ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter 2 Russ Henmi, VMWare trainer VMTN, Virtual Appliance downloads John Troyer, manager of the VMTN group Shared benefits between large systems, data centers, and desktop Linux environments Peter Bowen, Novell RSVP HERE: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/28347789 or to rsvp at baylisa.org From sigje at sigje.org Thu Apr 13 11:32:45 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: next Thursday BayLISA meeting.. Message-ID: So it's going to be a big virtualization fest for the first part of the meeting. I'd like to start out the meeting for the first 15 minutes or so talking about the different ways that people could or are using virtualization. I will be sharing some of my thoughts, and it would be great to get others as well. Please note that the meeting starts at 7PM. Jennifer From david at catwhisker.org Mon Apr 17 10:28:12 2006 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:28:12 -0700 Subject: Anyone hearing of problems receiving mail for @gmail.com addresses? Message-ID: <20060417172812.GK32062@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In the last few days, postmaster at freebsd.org has received half a dozen reports that mail from FreeBSD.org isn't reaching certain addresses, each of which is @gmail.com, and for each of which the logs on mx2.freebsd.org report that Google's gsmtp servers are reporting "temporary failures" (with no relief provided by an occasional success). Now, at work, I'm seeing reports that mail from @gmail.com addresses is being treated as a "false positive" for spam. Anyone know of any relevant changes that the Gmail folks might have been making recently? Thanks! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org Mail filters, like sewers, need to be most restrictive at the point of entry. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. From jxh at jxh.com Mon Apr 17 12:10:10 2006 From: jxh at jxh.com (Jim Hickstein) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:10:10 -0500 Subject: Anyone hearing of problems receiving mail for @gmail.com addresses? In-Reply-To: <20060417172812.GK32062@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <20060417172812.GK32062@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: <4443E812.20508@jxh.com> David Wolfskill wrote: > In the last few days, postmaster at freebsd.org has received half a dozen > reports that mail from FreeBSD.org isn't reaching certain addresses, > each of which is @gmail.com, and for each of which the logs on > mx2.freebsd.org report that Google's gsmtp servers are reporting > "temporary failures" (with no relief provided by an occasional success). Success for the same sender/host/recipient tuple? When greylisting started it considered these as unrelated, though I know at least one vendor who has modified it somewhat. And there is also the matter of multiple MX hosts that may not talk to each other about successes in this respect. (They may try to, but may be having trouble today.) What failure code are you seeing? From sigje at sigje.org Tue Apr 18 18:30:02 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: This Thursday BayLISA General Meeting - April 20, 2006 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please join us for pizza sponsored by Novell, social networking, and discussions on virtualization, VMWare technologies, and what desktop Linux and Server class Linux have given to each other. When: April 20, 2006, 7:00-9:45pm Location: Apple Campus, De Anza Building 3 Auditorium, 10500 N De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 RSVP: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/28347789 From star at starshine.org Thu Apr 20 03:33:02 2006 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:33:02 -0700 Subject: Meeting Tonight, Apple, De Anza Three, Message-ID: <20060420103302.GA15424@starshine.org> I just thought that considering we've had so many BayLISA events lately in addition to our regular general meeting, that people might like a reminder where the heck it is this time. We're at: Apple Cupertino De Anza Three That's the parking lot on the East side of DeAnza just South of that big street that leads into the Loop (Marianni at the light). If you're coming from 280 then you're coming from the north, and the easiest is to turn on Marianni, then turn right into the Blue Apples lot ...then, go around the building to the other side, since otherwise it's a long walk around the building. ...try not to go too far, it's a real PITA to have to U-turn by the Donut Wheel. Unless you were getting donuts or coffee anyway :) If you're coming from 85 or otherwise by surface street (DeAnza/Stevens Creek being a giant intersection if you're indulging in paper maps) then don't bother going as far as Marianni; just continue North, and turn into the earliest Blue Apple parking lot you see past the Donut Wheel. ...That's the right side of the street, and the right side of the building. ...if you miss, turn R on Marianni, use its entrance to the Blue Apples and continue back around the building. Items to think about: You can think of this as the gedanken edition of short but cool; share your thoughts ahead, or bring 'em to the meeting :) Given that the topic is the infrastructure needed to plan using virtualization effectively - where do you keep the disks? Sure, we just had NetApps talking lately, but even using it at a smaller scale needs something, and you might want to split up the usage anyway. Think about smaller shared mass-storage, maybe in the 5TB range or so? How many people have been bit by ...or served really well by... devices in this range? RAID's nice for getting lots of disk at once - keeping a RAID *healthy* is a bit more than just waiting for it to beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep (in your monitor software or email, unless maybe you enjoy the chill and live in the NOC ;> ) that one of its disks blew out... and of course, that's no defense for some doofus piece of code slowly corrupting a nice big project or database, so you need a longterm backup plan; restoring machines in a virtualized trice is easy if you've got a stack of Known Good Systems pre-imaged and kept online. Have fun, don't let too much fun have you during the day, and I'll be seeing you at BayLISA for the Third Thursday general meeting! -* Heather Stern * BayLISA Board Member * http://www.baylisa.org/ *- From sigje at sigje.org Thu Apr 20 15:24:09 2006 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Tonight's meeting - Apple Campus, Cupertino "De Anza Building 3 Auditorium" Message-ID: Heather sent that great message earlier.. but I wanted to follow that with some stuff to know .. it may seem like tonight's meeting is a little dry from reading the descriptions, but it should actually be very good. One of the trainers, Russ Henmi is an actual VMWare trainer who generally gets paid to do this kind of work. If there is anything that you have wanted to know about VMWare, but never had the money/time to go to VMWare world, or one of the USENIX conferences where it was offered as a tutorial, tonight is your chance to really get a deep view into it. Additionally, Peter Bowen originally worked for Ximian on systems management software, and now works at Novell. His talk on desktop/datacenter Linux should be very deep as well. We have a full night tonight of Virtualization, and Linux. Anne Henmi of Security and Linux fame will be there tonight so if you want to chat to her after the meeting, or get her to sign your copy of one of her books, she'll be there. Novell is sponsoring the pizza and drinks. Be there at 7pm to get fresh hot pizza :) Apple Campus De Anza 3 Auditorium Cupertino California That's the parking lot on the East side of DeAnza just South of that big street that leads into the Loop (Marianni at the light). If you're coming from 280 then you're coming from the north, and the easiest is to turn on Marianni, then turn right into the Blue Apples lot ...then, go around the building to the other side, since otherwise it's a long walk around the building. ...try not to go too far, it's a real PITA to have to U-turn by the Donut Wheel. Unless you were getting donuts or coffee anyway :) If you're coming from 85 or otherwise by surface street (DeAnza/Stevens Creek being a giant intersection if you're indulging in paper maps) then don't bother going as far as Marianni; just continue North, and turn into the earliest Blue Apple parking lot you see past the Donut Wheel. ...That's the right side of the street, and the right side of the building. ...if you miss, turn R on Marianni, use its entrance to the Blue Apples and continue back around the building. Thanks all! Jennifer Davis From bill at wards.net Thu Apr 20 18:57:36 2006 From: bill at wards.net (Bill Ward) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:57:36 -0700 Subject: PenLUG next Thursday (NEW LOCATION) - Bernard Golden, GPL3 - Where Free Software is Going Message-ID: <3d2fe1780604201857r34f7975akf79fb4f3667d82d7@mail.gmail.com> The Peninsula Linux Users' Group is holding a meeting next Thursday, April 27, in our new location at the Twin Pines community center in Belmont. WHO: Bernard Golden, CEO, Navica WHAT: GPL3 - Where Free Software is Going WHEN: Thursday, April 27, 7-10pm WHERE: Twin Pines Park, 1225 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA 94002 WHY: To learn and socialize with other fans of Linux and open source LOCATION: We've outgrown the big meeting room at Open Country and needed to find a bigger space, and Open Country has graciously sponsored the community center room as well as the usual free pizza and beverages. Give a big thank you to Open Country as you enjoy FREE FOOD, BEVERAGES, and now the room rental. Check the PenLUG Web site at http://www.penlug.org/ for driving directions and a map showing where to park and what building we're in. Google Maps doesn't do a very good job on this one, unfortunately. RSVP: not required, but send a note to rsvp at penlug.org if you can, so we have an idea of how many people to expect. SPEAKER/TOPIC: Bernard Golden, GPL3 - Where Free Software is Going A new version of the GPL is circulating in draft form. Because it's the most common open source license in the world, the community has a strong interest in what changes are present in it. While there has already been a lot of discussion about the new version, many important aspects of it are not commonly understood. This talk will discuss the key changes in the new GPL version and why it is the most important open source development in the past five years. SPEAKER BIO: Bernard Golden is Chief Executive Officer of Navica, a Silicon Valley consulting firm offering open source strategy, implementation, and training services. Bernard is recognized authority on open source software, particularly the use of open source in enterprise settings. He is the author of "Succeeding with Open Source" (Addison-Wesley Press, 2005). He writes a regular blog on open source for CIO Magazine, and his work has been featured in SearchCIO.com, Enterprise Open Source Journal, LinuxWorld, IT Manager's Journal, InfoWorld, and eWeek. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of open source to many organizations and at conferences like LinuxWorld Expo and the CIO Summit. -- Help bring back the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com Fri Apr 21 19:00:59 2006 From: alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com (Alvin Oga) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: suse-10.1 Message-ID: hi ya last nights baylisa mtg, one of the speakers mentioned Suse-10.1 as being available soon but, i've been using suse-10.1-beta7, beta-8 and now just downloaded suse-10.1-RC1 and will probably install *-RC1 tonight i'll bring the iso images ot rick's cabal tommorrow my question: i assume there is no yast2->onlineUpdates for opensuse ?? c ya alvin From rick at linuxmafia.com Mon Apr 24 14:33:25 2006 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:33:25 -0700 Subject: suse-10.1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20060424213325.GI7642@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Alvin Oga (alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com): > last nights baylisa mtg, one of the speakers mentioned > Suse-10.1 as being available soon > > but, i've been using suse-10.1-beta7, beta-8 and now just > downloaded suse-10.1-RC1 and will probably install *-RC1 > tonight Naturally, no sooner did you do that than RC2 came out. ;-> They're offering "delta ISOs" that provide all the updates: http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Instructions#Applying_Delta_ISOs And there's a YaST-able directory tree of non-open source add ons, that will eventually be released as two "extras" CDs: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/install/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-RC2-Extra/ I like the fact that -- for the add-ons -- they're doing a "bi-arch" image that covers both i386 and AMD64. In any case, CD1 suffices for minimal install, CDs 2&3 add GNOME and KDE, and 4&5 contain all the other (open source) stuff. > my question: > i assume there is no yast2->onlineUpdates for opensuse ?? I'd say check inside ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1, except it appears to be very busy, right now.