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From: e...@usenix.ORG (Ellie Young)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: LISA IV CONFERENCe
Keywords: USENIX Association
Message-ID: <527@usenix.ORG>
Date: 20 Sep 90 16:53:10 GMT
Organization: Usenix Association Office, Berkeley
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 17:53:10 1990
Large Installation Systems Administration IV
Conference and Tutorial Program
October 17-19, 1990
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Wednesday, October 17
TUTORIAL: Topics in Large Installation Systems Administration
INSTRUCTORS: Rob Kolstad, Jeff Polk, Sun Microsystems
Evi Nemeth, Trent Hein, University of Colorado
A two-track tutorial program will be held in conjunction
with the Conference. This program allows attendees
to choose which sections of the tutorials most interest them.
Participants can change between the tracks at each topic change to the
session which appears most interesting to them. The tutorial notes will
include viewgraphs from both tutorial tracks. A box lunch is included
in the registration fee.
9:00 +---------------------------------------------------------+
| PERL, part 1 |
10:15 |- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -|
| [break] |
10:40 |- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -|
| PERL, part 2 |
11:30 |---------------------------------------------------------|
| Network Functionality | |
| SNMP, BIND | sendmail 1 |
12:30 |---------------------------------------------------------|
| - - - - l u n c h - - - - |
1:30 |---------------------------------------------------------|
| Dynamic Routing Strategies | |
| gated/egp/rip | sendmail 2 |
| NTP (time Protocol) | |
2:30 |----------------------------|----------------------------|
| Case studies: | |
| SLIP | Ethics, patents, |
| optimal NFS configs | privacy, security |
3:30 |----------------------------|----------------------------|
| [break] |
4:00 |----------------------------|----------------------------|
| Security: | question |
| Kerberos IV | and |
| COPS | answer |
5:00 +---------------------------------------------------------+
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TENTATIVE TECHNICAL PROGRAM - OCTOBER 18 - 19, 1990
Thursday, October 18
9:00 - 10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Steven C. Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute
Keynote Address: Structural Revelation: Towards a
Mythology of the System
Anne G. Leonard, IBM
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 USERS, USERS, USERS
ACMAINT: An Account Creation and Maintenance System
For Distributed UNIX Systems
David Curry, SRI International
UDB - User Data Base System
Roland J. Stolfa and Mark J. Vasoll, Oklahoma State
University
Gaud: RAND's Group and User Database
Michael Urban, The RAND Corporation
newu: Multihost User Setup
Stephen P. Schaefer, MCNC
UNIQNAME Overview
Bill Doster, University of Michigan
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 PANEL: WHY DO WE KEEP RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL (AND
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?)
2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:30 MANAGING OUTSIDE SOFTWARE
The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software
Installation Across Organizational and UNIX
Platform Boundaries
Ken Manheimer, Barry Warsaw, Steve Clark,
Walter Rowe, National Institute of Standards
and Technology
Guidelines and Tools for Software Maintenance in
a Productional Environment
Kevin C. Smallwood, Purdue University Computing
Center
Keeping up with the Manual System
Kevin Braunsdorf, Purdue University Computing Center
The Answer To All Man's Problems
Tom Christiansen, CONVEX Computer Corporation
Life Without Root
Steven C. Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute
Friday, October 19
9:00 - 10:30 TOOLS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR
Trouble-MH: A Work-Queue Management System For
A >3-ring Circus
Tinsley Galyean, Trent Hein, Evi Nemeth,
University of Colorado
A Console Server
Thomas Fine, Ohio State University
Network Monitoring By Scripts
Katy Kislitzin, Computer Sciences Corporation
Using expect to Automate System Administration Tasks
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Policy as a System Administration Tool
Elizabeth D. Zwicky, SRI International
Steven C. Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute
Ronald E. Dalton, Industrial Technology Institute
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 PANEL: AUTOMATED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION - HOW
DESIRABLE, HOW MUCH, HOW SOON
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 MAIL AND BACKUPS - OLD PROBLEMS WITH NEW FACES
Integrating X.500 Directory Service into a Large
Campus Computing Environment
Timothy Howes, University of Michigan
A Domain Mail System on Dissimilar Computers -
Trials and Tribulations of SMTP
Helen E. Harrison, SAS Institute, Inc.
Backup At Ohio-State, Take 2
Steve Romig, Ohio State University
The AFS 3.0 Backup System
Steve Lammert, Transarc Corporation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00 WORKS IN PROGRESS, CLOSING REMARKS
The registration fees are $225 for the tutorial and $200 for
USENIX members ($240 for non-members) for the technical sessions.
If you would like to obtain a brochure with full details regarding
the tutorial program, technical sessions, and hotel, please
contacts:
USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street
Suite 613
El Toro, CA 92630
TEL 714-588-8649
FAX 714-588-9706
EMAIL: j...@usenix.org
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