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St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group – STLOSUG

About Us

The St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group brings together everyone in the St. Louis metro area who's interested in learning more about the OpenSolaris and Solaris operating systems. Whether you're new to OpenSolaris or a seasoned sysadmin, a developer, or simply a curious computer user, we encourage you to join us.

STLOSUG is a SIG (special interest group) affiliated with the St. Louis UNIX Users Group.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Topic: Migrating an RC script to SMF

This month we'll see how to take a traditional RC startup script and migrate it to operate within the SMF framework. We'll look at how to have a process run with Least Privileges, and use roles to allow a non-root user to start and stop privileged services.

Meeting Info

The St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at Pujol's 5 Westport Grill.

Address: 342 West Port Plaza; Maryland Heights, MO 63146

Time: Meetings begin at 6:00pm with a welcome to new members, followed by a short Q&A roundtable. The meeting presentation will follow, typically at 6:15.

Discussion Lists

The [ug-stlosug] email discussion list is hosted at opensolaris.org. If you are interested in STLOSUG, you are encouraged to subscribe. We need your input to plan future meeting times, topics, etc.

Visit the [ug-stlosug] info page to get started.

You are also encouraged to subscribe to SLUUG's [announce] and [discuss] lists. Visit the SLUUG Mailing List page for more information.

Upcoming Meetings

Date	Meeting Topic	Presenter
June 16, 2009	Migrating RC to SMF	-
July 21, 2009	Seeking speakers	-
August 18, 2009	Seeking speaker	-

Requested and Potential Future Meeting Topics

This list contains meeting topics requested by STLOSUG members. If you see something you like, please volunteer to give a talk or lead a discussion on one of these topics! And if there's something that you'd like to add to the list, please post your request to the STLOSUG discussion list.

Status	Topic
-	Zones: howto; best practices; applications and use cases
-	Best Practices: Production server builds; hardening; security; making use of new features
-	BART: Howto; comparison with Tripwire
-	Best Practices for patch management
-	WAN Booting/Jumpstart/installation
-	OpenLDAP and OpenSolaris
-	Privilege management: RBAC and Least Privilege; how it compares to/why it's superior to sudo
-	Jim Mauro's recent book on Solaris Internals
Jeff Logullo, 05/20/08	ZFS: What's new; what's changed
Jeff Logullo, 06/19/07	Installation in partitions/multiboot on x64

For More Information

Stay informed by subscribing to the STLOSUG mailing list. We value your input and look forward to hearing from you.

You may also email Jeff Logullo (jeff at logullo dot com) for more information.