A retrospective on twelve years of LISA proceedings

Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Systems Administration, LISA 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 95-107

  Anderson, Eric ^a   Patterson, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL TRENDS; SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS; TASK-BASED MODELS;

EID: 85094609265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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References (54)

1. [Ande95] Eric Anderson. "Results of the 1995 SANS Survey" ;login:, October 1995, Vol20, No. 5, http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Sysadmin/SANS95-Survey/index.html; Found weak correlation between number of machines and number of admins; many important tasks.
2. [Ande97a] Eric Anderson and Dave Patterson, "Extensible, Scalable Monitoring for Clusters of Computers," Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), San Diego, California pp 9-16; http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Sysadmin/esm/intro.html; Tool for monitoring and displaying cluster statistics.
3. [Ande97b] Jennifer M. Anderson, Lance M. Berc, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Monika R. Henzinger, Shun-Tak A. Leung, Richard L. Sites, Mark T. Vandervoorde, Carl A. Waldspurger, and William E. Weihl. "Continuous Profiling: Where Have All the Cycles Gone?" 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Saint-Malo, France, http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/technical-notes/abstracts/src-tn-1997-016.html.
4. [Apis96] Joel Apisdorf, k claffy, Kevin Thompson, and Rick Wilder, "OC3MON: Flexible, Affordable, High Performance Statistics Collection," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 97-112, http://www.nlanr.net/NA/Oc3mon/; HW & SW for monitoring and analyzing traffic on an OC3 link.
5. [Arno98] Bob Arnold, "Accountworks: Users Create Accounts on SQL, Notes, NT, and UNIX," Proceedings of the Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Boston, Massachusetts, pp 49-61.
6. [Bell96] John D. Bell. "A Simple Caching File System for Application Serving," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 171-179; Automatic caching of applications from a remote server to local disk.
7. [Bent99] Damien Bentley, Greg Rose, and Tara Whalen. "ssmail: Opportunistic Encryption in sendmail," Proceedings of the Thirteenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '99), Seattle, Washington.
8. [Chap92] D. Brent Chapman. "Majordomo: How I Manage 17 Mailing Lists Without Answering '-request' Mail," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 135-143, ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/majordomo.tar.Z.
9. [Coly92] Wallace Colyer and Walter Wong, "Depot: A Tool for Managing Software Environments," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 153-162, ftp://export.acs.cmu.edu/pub/depot/; Build merged tree by copy/link from packages; conflict resolution by package preferences.
10. [Couc96b] Alva L. Couch, "SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions for Community-Based Administration," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 205-212, ftp://ftp.cs.tufts.edu/pub/slink; Flexible sym-linking/copying for merging software repositories.
11. [Curr90] David A. Curry, Samuel D. Kimery, Kent C. De La Croix, and Jeffrey R. Schwab, "ACMAINT: An Account Creation and Maintenance System for Distributed UNIX Systems," Proceedings of the Fourth Large Installation Systems Administrator's Conference (LISA '90), Colorado, pp 1-9.
12. [Detk91] John F. Detke. "Host Aliases and Symbolic Links -or- How to Hide the Servers' Real Name," Proceedings of the Fifth Large Installation Systems Administration Conference, (LISA '91), San Diego, pp 249-252; Use host aliases & symbolic links to allow mount points & servers of exported FS to move w/o needing client changes.
13. [Elli92] Richard Elling and Matthew Long. "usersetup: A System for Custom Configuration of User Environments, or Helping Users Help Themselves," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 215-223, ftp://ftp.eng. auburn.edu/; Extension to Modules [Furl91] system, menu driven script to select applications & configure apps.
14. [Evar97] Rémy Evard. "An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration," Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), San Diego, California, pp 179-193; Examination of current configuration practices at nine different sites.
15. [Fink89] Raphael Finkel and Brian Sturgill. "Tools for System Administration in a Heterogeneous Environment," Proceedings of the Workshop on Large Installation Systems Administration III (LISA '89), Austin, Texas, pp 15-29; Relational structure stores host, file information. Tables can be generated at runtime. Schema describes relation structure & constraints. Query language queries & executes.
16. [Flet92b] Mark Fletcher, "nlp: A Network Printing Tool," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 245-256; Centralized print server database, uses lpd protocol to transfer files.
17. [Furl96] John L. Furlani and Peter W. Osel, "Abstract Yourself With Modules," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 193-203, http://www.modules.org/; Per-user flexible configuration of accessible packages.
18. [Galy90] Tinsley Galyean, Trent Hein, and Evi Nemeth, "Trouble-MH: A Work-Queue Management Package for a >3 Ring Circus," Proceedings of the Fourth Large Installation Systems Administrator 's Conference (LISA '90), Colorado, pp 93-95.
19. [Gold96] Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, Randi Thomas, and Eric A. Brewer, "A secure environment for untrusted helper applications: confining the wily hacker," Sixth USENIX Security Symposium, Focusing on Applications of Cryptography, San Jose, California, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/janus/.
20. [Hard92] Darren R. Hardy and Herb M. Morreale, "buzzerd: Automated Systems Monitoring with Notification in a Network Environment," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 203-210; Central monitoring server, remote monitoring daemons, paging on problems, users can put in notification, filtering, and escalation.
21. [Hark97] Robert Harker, "Selectively Rejecting SPAM Using Sendmail," Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), San Diego, California, pp 205-220, http://www.harker.com/sendmail/anti-spam; Configuring sendmail to reject spam messages.
22. [Hide94] Imazu Hideyo. "OMNICONF - Making OS Upgrads and Disk Crash Recovery Easier," Proceedings of the Eighth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '94), San Diego, California, pp 27-31; Calculate a delta between two configurations, store the delta, apply it later.
23. [Hill96] Brian C. Hill, "Priv: Secure and Flexible Privileged Access Dissemination," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 1-8, ftp://ftp. ucdavis.edu/pub/unix/priv.tar.gz; Secure ability to run programs as root with flexible command checking.
24. [Hohn99] Dirk Hohndel, "Automated installation of Linux systems using YaST," Proceedings of the Thirteenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '99), Seattle, Washington.
25. [Kobl92] David Koblas, "PITS: A Request Management System," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 197-202; Users can query database of open tickets, centralized assignment of new tickets, request editing tool.
26. [Kols92] Rob Kolstad, "1992 LISA Time Expenditure Survey," ;login:; Administrator time spread over many tasks.
27. [Kols97] Rob Kolstad, "Tuning Sendmail for Large Mailing Lists" Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), San Diego, California, pp 195-203; Configuring sendmail to increase performance.
28. [Limo99] Thomas A. Limoncelli. "Deconstructing User Requests and the 9-Step Model," Proceedings of the Thirteenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA
29. [Manh90] Kenneth Manheimer, Barry A. Warsaw, Stephen N. Clark, and Walter Rowe, "The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries," Proceedings of the Fourth Large Installation Systems Administrator 's Conference (LISA '90), Colorado pp 37-46.
30. [Metz92] Melissa Metz and Howie Kaye, "DeeJay - The Dump Jockey: A Heterogeneous Network Backup System," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 115-125, ftp://ftp. cc.columbia.edu/.
31. [Mill99] Todd Miller, Dave Hieb, Jeff Nieusma, Garth Snyder, et al., "Sudo: a utility to allow restricted root access," http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/.
32. [Oeti98a] Tobias Oetiker, "MRTG - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher," Proceedings of the Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Boston, Massachusetts, pp 141-147, http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/3.0/.
33. [Powe95] Patrick Powell and Justin Mason, "LPRng - An Enhanced Printer Spooler System," Proceedings of the Ninth Systems Administration Conference (LISA
34. [Pres98] W. Curtis Preston, "Using Gigabit Ethernet to Backup Six Terabytes," Proceedings of the Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Boston, Massachusetts, pp 87-95.
35. [Ramm95] Karl Ramm and Michael Grubb, "Exu - A System for Secure Delegation of Authority on an Insecure Network," Proceedings of the Ninth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '95), Monterey, California, pp 89-93, ftp://ftp.duke. edu/pub/exu; A tool for providing fine-grain root access via authenticated, privileged scripts.
36. [Rich91] Kenneth Rich and Scott Leadley, "hobgoblin: A File and Directory Auditor," Proceedings of the Fifth Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (LISA '91), San Diego, pp 199-207, ftp://cc.rochester.edu/ftp/pub/ucc-src/hobgoblin; list of files/dirs + attributes = > model. Checks for correctness, autogenerated from tar or ls listings.
37. [Roui94a] John P. Rouillard and Richard B. Martin, "Config: A Mechanism for Installing and Tracking System Configurations," Proceedings of the Eighth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '94), San Diego, California, pp 9-17, ftp://ftp. cs.umb.edu/pub/bblisa/talks/config/config.tar.Z; Update target machines using rdist + make with master repository in CVS, look for changed files with tripwire.
38. [Ruef96] Craig Ruefenacht, "RUST: Managing Problem Reports and To-Do Lists," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 81-89, ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/rust; Manages trouble ticket reports via e-mail.
39. [Schi93] John Schimmel, "A Case Study on Moves and Mergers," Proceedings of the Seventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '93), Monterey, California, pp 93-98, How the merger of SGI & Mips was handled, physical move & computer configuration issues.
40. [Scot97] Peter Scott, "Automating 24x7 Support Response To Telephone Requests," Proceedings of the Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97), San Diego, California, pp 27-35, Phone system for receiving problem reports and paging people.
41. [Shad95] Michael E. Shaddock, Michael C. Mitchell, and Helen E. Harrison, "How to Upgrade 1500 Workstations on Saturday, and Still Have Time to Mow the Yard on Sunday," Proceedings of the Ninth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '95), Monterey, California, pp 59-65; Tools & processes used to quickly upgrade an entire site.
42. [Silb91] Avi Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, and Jeffrey D. Ullman, "Database Systems: Achievements and Opportunities," Communications of the ACM, 34(10), pp 110-120.
43. [Silb96] Avi Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, and Jeffrey D. Ullman, "Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities into the 21st Century," Stanford Technical Report, http://elib.stanford.edu/ as CS-TR-96-1563.
44. [Silv93] James da Silva and Ólafur Guômundsson, "The Amanda Network Backup Manager," Proceedings of the Seventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '93), Monterey, California, pp 171-182, ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/amanda; Network backup by staging to a holding disk & streaming to tape, flexible scheduling.
45. [Spen96] Henry Spencer, "Shuse: Multi-Host Account Administration," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 25-32, Centralized account management for rapid account creation.
46. [Stae98] Carl Staelin, "mkpkg: A software packaging tool," Proceedings of the Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Boston, Massachusetts, pp 243-252, http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Carl-Staelin/mkpkg; Automatically generate manifest & install scripts; backend makes package.
47. [Trau98] Steve Traugott and Joel Huddleston, "Bootstrapping an Infrastructure," Proceedings of the Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Boston, Massachusetts, pp 181-196.
48. [Troc96] Jim Trocki, "PC Administration Tools: Using Linux to Manage Personal Computers," Proceedings of the Tenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '96), Chicago, Illinois, pp 187-192; Installation of DOS/Windows using Linux boot disk.
49. [Vali99] Peter Valian and Todd K. Watson, "NetReg: An Automated DHCP Network Registration System," Proceedings of the Thirteenth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '99), Seattle, Washington.
50. [Will93] Craig E. Wills, Kirstin Cadwell, and William Marrs, "Customization in a UNIX Computing Environment," Proceedings of the Seventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '93), Monterey, California, pp 43-49; Study of how users customize their environment (copied from friends, then changed).
51. [Wong93] Walter C. Wong, "Local Disk Depot - Customizing the Software Environment," Proceedings of the Seventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA How to cache packages onto the local disk in the depot [Coly92].
52. [Wood98] Ben Woodard, "Building An Enterprise Printing System," Proceedings of the Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Boston, Massachusetts, pp 219-228, http://pasta.penguincomputing.com/pub/prtools.
53. [Zwic91b] Elizabeth D. Zwicky, "Torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs: Things You Ought to Know But Probably Would Rather Not," Proceedings of the Fifth Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (LISA '91), San Diego, pp 181-189; Static & dynamic tests for many backup programs (dump, cpio, tar, etc.) shows many problems.
54. [Zwic92] Elizabeth D. Zwicky, "Typecast: Beyond Cloned Hosts," Proceedings of the Sixth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '92), Long Beach, California, pp 73-78, ftp://ftp.erg.sri.com/pub/packages/typecast.