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