Ninth System Administration Conference
(LISA '95)
September 18-22, 1995
Monterey, California
Call for Papers
Program Committee
;login: Report on LISA '95
Plenary Session
Wednesday (11:00-12:30)
Chair: John Schimmel
Network Services
Wednesday (11:00-12:30)
Chair: John Schimmel
- lbnamed: A Load Balancing Name
Server in Perl
- Roland J. Schemers, III, SunSoft, Inc.
- LPRng - An Enhanced Printer Spooler System
- Patrick Powell, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA,
Justin Mason, Iona Industries, Ireland
- Finding a Needle in a Virtual Haystack:
Whois++ and the Whois++ Client Library
- Jeff R. Allen, Harvey Mudd College
Commercial Environments
Wednesday (2:00-3:30)
Chair: Paul Evans
- Capital Markets Trading Floors,
Current Practice
- Sam Lipson
- Morgan Stanley's Aurora System:
Designing a Next Generation Global Production Unix Environment
- Xev Gittler, W. Phillip Moore and J. Rambhaskar, Morgan Stanley
- How to Upgrade 1500 Workstations on Saturday,
and Still Have Time to Mow the Yard on Sunday
- Michael E. Shaddock, Michael C. Mitchell, and Helen E. Harrison,
SAS Institute Inc.
Security
Wednesday (4:00-5:30)
Chair: Marcus J. Ranum
- Security Administration in an Open
Networking Environment
- Karen A. Casella, Sun Microsystems, Incorporated
- Multi-platform Interrogation and
Reporting with Rscan
- Nathaniel Sammons, Colorado State University
- Exu - A System for Secure Delegation of
Authority on an Insecure Network
- Karl Ramm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Grubb, Duke University
Internet Services
Thursday (11:00-12:30)
Chair: Tina Darmohray
- Administering Very High Volume
Internet Services
- Dan Mosedale, William Foss, and Rob McCool, Netscape Communications
- Bringing the MBONE Home: Experiences with
Internal Use of Multicast-Based Conferencing Tools
- Archibald C. R. Mott, cisco Systems, Inc.
- LACHESIS: A Tool for Benchmarking
Internet Service Providers
- Jeff Sedayao and Kotaro Akita, Intel Corporation
Management
Thursday (2:00-3:30)
Chair: Kim Trudel
- From Something to Nothing (and back)
- Gretchen Phillips, University at Buffalo
- Metrics for Management
- Christine Hogan, Synopsys, Inc.
- SQL_2_HTML: Automatic Generation of
HTML Database Schemas
- Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
User Environment
Thursday (4:00-5:30)
Chair: Bryan McDonald
- Decentralising Distributed Systems Administration
- Christine Hogan, Synopsys, Inc.
Aoife Cox, Lockheed-Martin, Inc.
Tim Hunter, Synopsys, Inc.
- SPM: System for Password Management
- Michael A. Cooper, University of Southern California
- AGUS: An Automatic Multi-Platform
Account Generation System
- Paul Riddle Hughes STX Corporation
Paul Danckaert University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Matt Metaferia MCI Telecommunications
File Management
Friday (9:00-10:30)
Chair: Paul Anderson
- OpenDist - Incremental Software Distribution
- Peter W. Osel and Wilfried Gnsheimer, Siemens AG, Munchen, Germany
- filetsf: A File Transfer System Based
on lpr/lpd
- John Sellens, University of Waterloo
- Patch Control Mechanism for Large Scale
Software
- Atsushi Futakata, Central Research Institute of Electric Power
Industry (CRIEPI)
Network Hardware
Friday (11:00-12:30)
Chair: Paul Evans
- From Twisting Country Lanes to MultiLane
Ethernet SuperHighways
- Stuart McRobert, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
- From Thinnet to 10base-T, From Sys Admin
to Network Manager
- Arnold de Leon, Synopsys, Inc.
- Tracking Hardware Configurations in a
Heterogeneous Network with syslogd
- Rex Walters, IBM Microelectronics Division