Unix Users Meeting

Wednesday 31 Jan 2007, 13:00 → 15:00 US/Central

Curia II (2nd Floor) (Wilson Hall)

Wayne Baisley

Fermilab Unix Users Meeting

1 Security

Security Topic of the month

Slides 2007-01_UnixUsersDetector.ppt

*New Detector* - Web browsing awareness detector Joe K. will do a technical presentation at the Sys Admin Roundtable tomorrow. In this meeting they showed us a proposed draft of a document describing it. We are invited to come to the presentation at the Sys Admin Roundtable about more details.

2 Networking - Skype

Is Skype allowed at Fermilab? https://netweb.fnal.gov/skype/skype.htm

Skype is allowed at Fermilab *but* only if you do not become a supernode.

3 FNALU Changes

FNALU will be going through changes. What are those changes and how will they affect you.

FNALU 24x7 support is being dropped, only 9x5 support. People reading their e-mail are encouraged to be move to the imap. Local mail is going away on FNALU.

4 New Fermi Linux Web Area

We are migrating the Fermi Linux web area to the plone site. It will be https://fermilinux.fnal.gov/

The new site is still being developed some, but most everything is there.

5 Tips and Tricks: UPS to RPM

Mark Mengal has written a spec file that allows you to create RPM's out of your UPS product http://home.fnal.gov/~mengel/encp.spec.html

text encp.spec

6 Question and Answers

Since there isn't a section on Scientific Linux and Scientific Linux Fermi, we expect more question and answers than we usually have.

When is SL5 going to come out? RedHat has missed 2 non-deadlines. The latest non-deadline for RHEL5 is the end of February. SL5 will come out some time soon after that. SLF 5 will be some time soon after that. When is SL4.5 going to come out? Crystal Ball says "sometime in march or later" Will there be a SL 3.0.9? There is really only rumors, don't count on it. When will Fermi Kerberos 2.x be coming out? It is comming along good. Sometime in February.

7 Quiz and Free Stuff

Troy has his monthly quiz. Rumor has it that the free stuff is really good.