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Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members are welcome, but may be required to show photo ID at the security desk.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place.
Adam has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online.
Before the break, as this month's
RTFM topic,
Gilbert Detillieux talked about background command execution,
job control and process monitoring commands in the UNIX shell.
(These features are available in both
bash(1) and
tcsh(1).)
Roundtable audio | RTFM: jobs audio | Revision Control presentation audio
Dropbox is a free file sharing service with client support for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and even some mobile platforms. It lets you automatically replicate files to any of your configured clients, share them with other users, or access them from the web. Gilbert Detillieux showed Dropbox in use, and showed the installation of client software under Linux.
Before the break, as this month's
RTFM topic,
Michael Doob talked about using the
rsync(1) command.
Roundtable audio | RTFM: rsync audio | MBR Rescue presentation audio | Dropbox presentation audio
Mark's presentation provided some basic theory, showed how to do static configuration on GNU/Linux, and reflected on how the transition to IPv6 could play out. Mark also gave some pointers on managing reverse DNS entries with the aid of the $ORIGIN keyword in BIND, and the ease of configuring the route advertisement daemon (as used for the demonstration) was shown.
Mark has made his presentation slides, in
ODP and
PDF format,
available online.
(This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.)
Plus, this month's meeting was the MUUG annual general meeting, which included the election of the MUUG board of directors for the 2011-2012 year (by acclamation), as well as a vote on a special resolution to amend the MUUG by-laws, which was unanimously passed.
Roundtable audio | IPv6 presentation audio
And since this is the season for giving to those in need, we also collected a box full of tins and other non-perishable food items for Winnipeg Harvest. Finally, instead of the usual door-prize draw at the end, we auctioned off an original two-volume set of UNIX manuals from Bell Labs, with proceeds (of $50) going to Winnipeg Harvest.
January's RTFM was brought to you by the letter "c"
and Michael Doob, who presented
cron(8) and the
crontab(1) command.
Next, Sean Cody presented Hard Core SSH, where he showed us how he does VPN tunnelling using SSH and tunnel devices, and a few other ssh tricks like session mixing and ad-hoc port forwarding.
Sean has made his presentation slides, in PDF format, available online.
Finally, Adam Thompson demonstrated installing CentOS 5.x and Ubuntu 11.10 under VMware, and discussed their relative footprints in a virtual environment. The conclusion? Ubuntu (at least, right out of the box) seems to be much lighter, both in terms of memory and CPU usage.
Roundtable audio | RTFM: cron audio | Hard Core SSH presentation audio | VM Install Linux presentation audio
February's RTFM featured the
traceroute(1) command,
presented by our president, Katherine Scrupa.
RTFM: traceroute audio | LVM presentation audio
Rob has made his presentation slides, in PPT and PDF format, available online. (Rob warns that they are incomplete and buggy, because of format conversions and such.)
March's RTFM featured the
sort(1) and
uniq(1) commands,
presented by Brad Vokey.
Roundtable audio | RTFM: sort/uniq audio | The Cloud presentation audio
pf(4)
packet filtering framework from OpenBSD to do most of the heavy lifting.
Supporting multi-WAN, HTTP acceleration, DNS, DHCP, authentication,
and wireless NIC's among other features,
it's an ideal system for someone who wants a free, open-source firewall
that's still incredibly easy to manage.
Adam has made his presentation slides, in ODP and PDF format, available online.
April's RTFM featured the
date(1) command,
presented by Michael Doob.
RTFM: date audio | pfSense presentation audio | (bonus) "Eh-hm" audio
May's RTFM featured the
parallel(1) command,
presented by Gilbert Detillieux.
(GNU parallel is not
yet a standard utility on most UNIX/Linux distributions,
but is freely available and portable.)
Roundtable audio | RTFM: parallel audio | ZFS presentation audio
June's RTFM featured the
ifconfig(8) command,
presented by Rob Keizer.
Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members are welcome, but may be required to show photo ID at the security desk.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place.