KLUG Meeting Minutes and Agenda (#23)

The 23th meeting of the Kingston Linux User Group was held Wed, Sept 6, 2000 at 7PM at RMC. 
The meeting lasted until about 10:15 PM.

The attendees were:
  Drummond, Mark <drummond-m@rmc.ca>
  Gauthier, Daniel <daniel__gauthier@yahoo.com>
  Gorman, Alex <gorman@kos.net>
  Healy, Art <art@cybertap.com>
  Jezak, Edward <jezak@rmc.ca>
  Kirby, Chris <canadaemail@yahoo.ca>
  Kropyvnytskyy, Ivan <ikropyvnytskyy@hotmail.com>
  MacIntosh, Bob <ve3rhm@cybertap.com>
  Maclachlan, Ross <ross.maclachlan@rmc.ca>
  MacPherson, Alex <macpherson-a@rmc.ca>
  Miller, George <ve3gcm@sympatico.ca>
  Mitton, Douglas <dmitton@cybertap.com>
  Moizer, David <moizerrd@kos.net>
  Zandbergen, Harry <harry_zandbergen@hotmail.com>

Meeting Schedule: (Monthly, alternating between first Mon and Wed evenings at 7PM.  Locations to be determined.)
    24 - Mon, Oct. 2 at RMC.    5th Mini-Install Fest!
    25 - Mon, Nov. 6 at RMC.    Scripting Overview (5 of 12).
    26 - Mon, Dec. 4 at RMC.    System and Network Security (6 of 12). 
                                                          
Summary Of Activities:
   - Web page host and domain name - www.klug.on.ca is now in use.
   - Internet presence - Temporary web page at http://signals.rmc.ca/klug.
   - Mailing list - klug-subscribe@lists.rmc.ca.

Ideas For Future Meetings:
   - 2000 will be mainly dedicated to networking and network security subjects.
   - Instructions on how to install Linux distributions.

Agenda/Minutes:
1) Roll Call and Introductions (if required) - See attendees above. 
2) This Meeting:

There were 14 attendees to our 12th presentation "System Administration II" by Mark Drummond.  He was also able to
include a description of the Linux boot process.

This was a continuation of the August session and started out with file permissions.  Mark showed examples of the 
problems associated with and the security potential of various combinations of file permissions.

As a result of questions he also went into some environment variables which effect default permissions and the 
consequences of changing them.

There was also time for an explaination of the Linux boot process and the difference between the "Sys V" method used 
by Mandrake and Redhat (also others) and the "BSD" method used by Slackware.  He also showed some examples of how to
edit and control the boot process in the various /etc/rc.d/ scripts.

The topics covered in these 2 sessions are in no way limited only to Linux but serve as a primer for many UNIX 
systems developed and deployed over the last 20+ years.

Also, please let Mark know if you plan to participate in next months mini-install fest.  If there are not at least 5
installs we would like to cancel and proceed to the next presentation "(Shell) Scripting Overview".   

Thanks to Mark and all who participated.

3) Next Meeting:
   Mon. Oct. 2 at RMC for our 5th mini-install fest.  Bring in your computer. 

4) Socialize / Adjourn