8th USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA VIII) Proceedings

September 19 -23, 1994
San Diego, California


Keynote Address

The Road To UNIX: A Report from the Fourth Estate
Jack Stanley, Houston Chronicle

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

Session Chair: Mark Verber, Xerox PARC
Central System Administration in a Heterogeneous Unix Environment: GeNUAdmin
Dr. Magnus Harlander, GeNUA mbH

Config: A Mechanism for Installing and Tracking System Configurations
John P. Rouillard and Richard B. Martin, Dept. of Math and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts - Boston

Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System
Paul Anderson, Dept. of Computer Science University of Edinburgh

AUTOMATION

Session Chair: Hal Stern, Sun Microsystems
OMNICONF - Make OS Upgrade and Disk Crash Recovery Easier
Imazu Hideyo, Matsushita Electric

Automated Upgrades in a Lab Environment
Paul Riddle, Academic Computing Services, University of Maryland

Tenwen: The Reengineering of a Computing Environment
Remy Evard, Experimental Systems Group, Northeastern University

THE TOOLBOX

Session Chair: Pat Parseghian, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Kernel Mucking in Top
William LeFebvre, Argonne National Laboratory

Handling Passwords with Security and Reliability in Background Processes
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology


ENCORE PRESENTATION

Breaking into Banks: Security Lessons Learned from Financial Services
Dan Geer, OpenVision Technologies

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION

Session Chair: Paul Evans, Synopsys, Inc.
Soft: A Software Environment Abstraction Mechanism
Remy Evard and Robert Leslie, Experimental Systems Group, Northeastern University

Beam: A Tool for Flexible Software Update
Thomas Eirich, University of Erlangen- Nurnberg, Germany

Depot-Lite: A Mechanism for Managing Software
John P. Rouillard and Richard B. Martin, Dept. of Math and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts - Boston

AUTOMATION, THE SEQUEL

Session Chair: Neil Todd, Swiss Bank Corp.
SENDS, a Tool for Managing Domain Naming and Electronic Mail in a Large Organization
Jerry Scharf, Sony Corp., and Paul Vixie, Vixie Enterprises.

Getting More Work Out Of Work Tracking Systems
Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Silicon Graphics Inc.

Managing the Ever-Growing To Do List
Remy Evard, Experimental Systems Group, Northeastern University


THE USER ENVIRONMENT

Session Chair: Trent Hein, XOR Networking Engineering
Speeding Up UNIX Login by Caching the Initial Environment
Carl Hauser, Xerox PARC

THE BNR Standard Login (A Login Configuration Manager)
Christopher Rath, Bell Northern Research Ltd.

Exporting Home Directories on Demand to PCs
David Clear, Alan Ibbetson, Systems Group, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent - Canterbury, UK and Peter Collinson, Hillside Systems

PEEK A BOO - I CAN SEE YOU

Session Chair: William LeFebvre, Argonne National Laboratory
Monitoring Usage of Workstations with a Relational Database
Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Adventures in the Evolution of a High-Bandwidth Network for Central Servers
Karl L. Swartz, Les Cottrell, and Marty Dart, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Pong: A Flexible Network Services Monitoring System
Helen E. Harrison, Mike C. Mitchell and Mike E. Shaddock, SAS Institute, Inc.

THE AUTOMATION REVOLUTION

Session Chair: Tom Christiansen, Consultant
Automating Printing Configuration
Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Highly Automated Low Personnel System Administration in a Wall Street Environment
Harry Kaplan, Sanwa Financial Products

The Group Administration Shell and the GASH Network Computing Environment
Jonathan Abbey, University of Texas - Austin