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KLUG Meeting Notes - 08/29/2000
KALAMAZOO LINUX USER'S GROUP
MEMBERS AND GUESTS - COME JOIN US FOR A MEETING!!!
http://kalamazoolinux.org/meetings
WE MEET WEEKLY, EACH TUESDAY AT 7:00PM.
Our meeting site is Room 4202 of Dunbar Hall on
the campus of Western Michigan University.
Tuesday August 29, 2000 7:00PM
KLUG Meeting Notes - Summary
I. PROJECT REPORTS
II. GENERAL KLUG ANNOUNCEMENTS
III. PRESENTATION RECAP KPPP
IV. NEXT WEEK'S MEETING BEGINNER'S MEETING!!!
Tonight's Meeting Moderator:
Chairperson, Robert G. Brown
I. PROJECT REPORTS
LINUX OR KLUG RELATED PROJECT REPORTS -
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > N E W S F L A S H < +=+=+=+=+=+=+
Y O U ARE ASKED TO REMEMBER THAT K L U G IS...
A ---> VOLUNTEER <--- ORGANIZATION!!!
Please Honor the Spirit of the GPL! Is it REALLY Free?
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
VOLUNTEER CLUB POSITIONS NOW AVAILABLE:
All KLUG positions are NOT occupied currently.
Please consider serving the members as one of the following...
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
WEBMASTER
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/organize/web-mast.html
LISTMASTER
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/organize/link-mast.html
WEBMASTER (Boogie's Cyber Cafe)
CHECK OUT THE NEW KLUG LIBRARY PAGE - See the updated
inventory listing of our KLUG Library. The items listed in
green are only available to KLUG supporting members.
Everything else is available to anyone that can come to a
KLUG meeting. If you would like to check out one of these
items, please check it off and submit the form on the KLUG
library page. Please do show up at the meeting if you have
books requested.
HAS ANYONE HEARD FROM MIKE SAMS RECENTLY? Hello Mike???
WEST MICHIGAN POLIO NETWORK WEB SITE - The site development
is heading into the final stages. Mike Sams is the WMPN web
project leader working on this info site. Nick Kissinger is
working on the team too. WMPN has asked us to assist them in
getting their info published for public use and good. The
web content includes information on post-polio disorders.
More info from "Robert G. Brown" <bob@acm.org>
BOOGIE CYBER CAFE - KLUG's public commercial Linux project.
Stop in and see this "pay-to-compute" implementation.
Check out - http://www.boogies.com/ Site by Matt Crampton!
This successful public demonstration of the flexibility and
suitability of Linux in a commercial environment provides
great exposure. This project provides a share of the profits
to fund KLUG activities. Members check on this LAN, remotely,
several times a day. The network support for Boogie has been
taken over by the extremely skilled and intuitive KLUG members
Peter Buxton and Ian Schirado. The Linux OS remains cool,
calm, and constant! Expect exciting developments here soon!
WE NEED A NEW WEBMASTER FOR THE BOOGIE PROJECT!
Great opportunity to publicly showcase your web presentation skills.
A PHP SIG HAS BEEN FORMED - For all those interested
in learning this powerful server-side scripting language.
THE FIRST MEETING WAS HELD Tuesday, June 13th at 7pm.
See the listserv info on the KLUG web site. Newbies and
experienced PHP developers alike will have ample opportunity
to share and encourage one another in the use of PHP. More
info from "Tony Gettig" <tony@gettig-group.com>
http://kalamazoolinux.org/listserv/ SIGN UP NOW!!!
THE LINUX VIDEO OUTREACH PROJECT - The final product
will undoubtedly be presented in the future. See the intro footage
demo at http://www.imago3d.com/KLUG An idea has been
proposed to include footage of KLUG meeting activities.
A visual demonstration of this "community supported" OS.
The subjects covered in the video include the internet,
Linux, and KLUG. This video will be presented repeatedly
on local public access channels for educational and KLUG/
Linux promotional purposes. KLUG presents "The Internet
Demystified" More info from "Joe Freeman" <imago@imago3d.com>
YOU HAVE IDEAS FOR A KLUG PRESENTATION or know of a good
speaker, we want to hear about it! Make contact with
our KLUG Program Director! "Brenda Williams" <nixb@iserv.net>
NEW GOLD EDITION CD GIFT FOR KLUG PRESENTATIONS!
In addition to the sincere appreciation felt
for those great KLUG presentations, presenters
will be given a gift of a new GOLD EDITION CD-ROM!
NOTE -
* Must come to three meetings to qualify as a full member.
Bring a friend... who was disappointed by a proprietary OS!
II. GENERAL KLUG ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE BEGINNER'S MEETING is the first Tuesday of each month.
Linux basics and distribution installs are the lessons of
these evenings. If you do want KLUG's FREE HELP INSTALLING
LINUX on your computer at one of these meetings, see this URL:
http://kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/installform.html
Contact the KLUG Installmasters for more information:
installmaster@kalamazoolinux.org
IF YOU KNOW OF ADDITIONAL LINKS that should be included
in the KLUG LINKS page... please e-mail Richard
Zimmerman at <ke4rit@earthlink.net> so the LINKS team
can review the content of the site.
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/links
REDHAT LINUX CERTIFICATION information is available
from a KLUG officer. See the club listserv for more
info or check certifications on the Links page.
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/links/certification.html
VOLUNTEER CLUB POSITIONS NOW AVAILABLE:
All KLUG positions are NOT occupied currently.
Please consider serving the members as one of the following...
WEBMASTER
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/organize/web-mast.html
LISTMASTER
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/organize/link-mast.html
WEBMASTER (Boogie's Cyber Cafe)
J O I N & S U P P O R T K L U G !!!
Be a KLUG Supporting Member! $25 annually *
($.50 per meeting) TRULY A GREAT BARGAIN!!!
THE SUPPORTING MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS INCLUDE -
GREAT MEETING PRESENTATIONS. Your opportunity
to share your Linux experiences and see what
other people are doing. Come enjoy a meeting!
If you have an IDEA FOR A KLUG PRESENTATION or know
of a good speaker, we want to hear about it! Make
contact with our KLUG Program Director, Brenda
Williams! <nixb@iserv.net>
NON-COMMERCIAL OR PERSONAL WEB SITE HOSTED on the
KLUG server. Single page .html files can be sent to the interim
KLUG webmaster@kalamazoolinux.org for
posting. These are intended to be low traffic web
sites displaying appropriate content.
BORROW BOOKS & DISTRIBUTIONS from KLUG library
Contact Adam for more info on library holdings.
We have Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, and WinLinux
distribution packages available in our library
along with several others. <awilliam@whitemice.org>
Ask about the *non-Linux* distribution additions!
********** REDHAT v6.2 HAS BEEN RELEASED ************
This Linux distribution now comes on two (2) CD's.
Supporting Member Discount on BSware is $3 or 60% off!
Bruce distributes a non-commercial version of Redhat!
Notice - BSware prices are $5 per CD. A great deal!!!
Thanks Bruce!!! See http://kalamazoolinux.org/bsware/
NEW 50 Mb CREDIT CARD SIZED LINUX CD-ROM'S ARE HERE!
Contact Bruce to find out what Linux distributions and
application software he has available. E-mail him in
advance about your needs and pick up your CD's at the
next meeting. bruce@armintl.com
MAKE SURE YOU ARE SIGNED UP for the KLUG mailing list!
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THIS IS THE WAY TO GET THESE WEEKLY KLUG MEETING NOTES!
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Diversified mailing lists can be found on our web site.
http://kalamazoolinux.org/listserv/
Currently Available KLUG Lists:
- Common List (All Members)
- Assistance for New Linux Users
- Merits/Weaknesses of different Operating Systems
- PHP
TAX DEDUCTIBLE STATUS - The 501c3 application was sent
to the IRS in December. We have received notice that
they are proceeding with the processing of our request.
We hope to hear from them soon with notice of our charitable
deductibility. Charitable and tax-exemption status is
routinely granted to educational not-for-profit organizations.
This should help us attain our financial goals. We need
working capital for increased Linux promotional activities.
WEST MICHIGAN SEARCH & RESCUE - Web site is done.
Go there and see this KLUG public service project!
The site is ready for the next phase of development.
Contact Brenda Williams with questions or comments.
<nixb@iserv.net> Web site http://www.wmsar.org
NOTE -
* Must come to three meetings to qualify as a full member.
Bring a friend... who was disappointed by a proprietary OS!
III. PRESENTATION RECAP
TONIGHT'S KLUG PRESENTATION: (11 active participants tonight)
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TIMBER!!!
By Adam Williams
The graphics hinted at heavy tree growth! Forest green was the
color of Adam's presentation slides... are his logs termite bait?
He did a professional job of keeping us involved. He took extra
interest in the many questions that were opened for discussion.
One of the most useful tools in securing and troubleshooting
a UNIX/Linux system are the logs. Adam covered how syslog,
the messaging daemon, manages your log messages and
how to create automated responses to specific messages.
Logs are text files with the format of:
date stamp host name message
WHEN WHERE WHY
The two logging programs are:
klogd - Kernel log - boot listing
syslogd - system event recording
dmesg = print or control the kernel ring buffer
dmesg -c = clears log file, restarts
We heard how "MARK" is used to determine server
halt times. A "MARK" is sent to verify active messaging
into the log... when it disappears is the time the server
went offline.
TIP: You can have all the machines in your network log to one
workstation! This allows you to focus on one location to look for
any remote problems.
TIP: You must create the files for syslogd to send messages to!
We heard about etc/syslog.conf and logrotate.conf <cron job>
We also covered the log files of common applications such as
Samba and HTTP. Apache and squid logs require that the truncated
swapping of files setting be used <<not in docs>> on active servers!
Better check this out with Adam... sounded scary!
There is a shell command "logger" that sends messages to
the log files.
REFERENCE SUGGESTIONS:
http://www.rt.com/man/syslog.5.html
http://www.rt.com/man/logger.1.html
http://www.rt.com/man/dmesg.8.html
http://www.rt.com/man/logrotate.8.html
http://www.rt.com/man/syslogd.8.html
http://www.rt.com/man/klogd.8.html
mans are available in HTML too
http://enterpriselinuxmag.com/public_html/jul00/tansley.html
Adam expanded on this info by David Tansley
{a systems administrator with a Lloyds of London}
man dmesg man logrotate man syslogd
man logger man syslog man klogd
Adam is a network administrator based in Grand Rapids, but
the network he deals with is all over Michigan, with a couple
of hundred workstations, running Linux and other Operating
Systems. Not only does he deal with domain issues at work,
but he is also the owner of the domain "whitemice.org". Recently
married and ensconced as a KLUG officer (independent events),
Adam has been a regular contributor to technical discussions on
our main mailing list, both presenting and solving some of the
most challenging networking and configuration problems.
IV. NEXT WEEK'S MEETING - TUESDAY 09-05-2000
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Beginner's Meeting
By Robert G. Brown
This meeting is intended for those who are curious about Linux,
or want some help getting started. This meeting seeks to
empower the new user to accomplish basic system tasks.
That reference information will make the Linux experience a
much more pleasant one!
Tonight, join us as Bob takes the mystery out of PPP by showing
us a tool, KPPP to get the job done! The internet connection...
REFERENCE: http://devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/
DOWNLOAD: http://devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/kppp-1.6.25.tar.bz2
Bring your computer to the meeting, and have Linux installed
on it, at no charge. You can also bring home your own Linux
CD-ROM , produced locally. You can also come and listen
to our new user presentation, and have your questions
answered about Linux, for home or business.
If you are planning on bringing a computer for installation to this
meeting please fill out the install form to make arrangements.
Installations are done by appointment ONLY. You must fill out this
form one week prior to the meeting if you want to bring in your
computer. Thank you for your cooperation. Feel free to contact
our install master with any questions.
Now's the time to get started! Linux is becoming a mainstay of
free software, free choice, dependability and power.
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* ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION
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* * N E W K L U G D O M A I N N A M E *
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*
* We have a new web address!!!
*
* http://kalamazoolinux.org
*
* Make sure you change your bookmarks and links.
* Report any links you find that point to the old
* address - http://klug.armintl.com The old DNS
* is NO LONGER ACTIVE. Help make this identity
* transition go smoothly. Report the old links
* you find to our linkmaster, Richard Zimmerman
* <ke4rit@earthlink.net>.
*
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NOTE -
* Must come to three meetings to qualify as a full member.
Bring a friend... who was disappointed by a proprietary OS!
WHAT IS KLUG? -
KLUG is a volunteer group formed by and for LINUX
system users in the Kalamazoo Michigan area. We
support, promote, and develop activities related
to the use, study, and application of LINUX in the
local community.
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THANKS to MORRISON INDUSTRIES, INC. for providing their
VGA Projector to support KLUG and Linux presentations.
THANKS to ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL, INC. for providing their
much appreciated IT Resources to support KLUG and Linux.
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